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During and after the Kosovo War 76 civilians were killed, 38 Albanians and 38 Serbs. [2] Military checkpoint in Viti, July 1999. Following the 1999 Kosovo War, it was the home of A Company, 2/505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, the first KFOR troops to begin stabilization efforts in the municipality. After the initial unit ...
Saint Joseph's Church was built of reinforced concrete in 1969 with a façade of well-hewn stone from Stubllavaçë, the same source used for Saint Anthony of Padua’s church in Binač.
This is a list of cities and towns in the Kosovo in alphabetical order categorised by municipality or district, according to the criteria used by the Kosovo Agency of Statistics (KAS). Kosovo's population is distributed in 1,467 settlements with 26 per cent of its population concentrated in 7 regional centers, consisting of Ferizaj , Gjakova ...
Binač (Serbian Cyrillic: Бинaч) or Binça (Albanian: Binçë), is a village in the municipality of Vitina in southeastern Kosovo. The Binač Monastery was destroyed in 1999, during the Kosovo unrests. It is in the Kosovo Pomoravlje region. The Binačka Morava crosses beside the village. [2]
The inhabitants of the village belong to the same clan originating from the Berisha tribe and are separated into two branches; The Mahalla of Fejzalar with nine families, and the Mahalla of Qorroll with thirteen families. [2] During the 19th century, the ancestors of the village residents expelled all the Serb inhabitants from the village. [3]
In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...
Church of the Holy Mother of God was a Serbian Orthodox Church located in the village of Podgorce, in the municipality of Vitina, in Kosovo and Metohija. It belonged to the Diocese of Raška and Prizren of the Serbian Orthodox Church. The church was rebuilt and consecrated in 1996.
Klokot (Serbian Cyrillic: Клокот) or Kllokot (Albanian definite form: Kllokoti) is a town and municipality in the District of Gjilan in southeastern Kosovo.The municipality was established on 8 January 2010, the settlements having been part of the municipality of Viti.