Popovljane

Popovljane (Serbian Cyrillic: Поповљане, Albanian: Popolan) is a settlement in the Suva Reka municipality in the disputed region of Kosovo, southern Serbia. The rural settlement lies on a cadastral area with the same name, with 259 hectares. It lies 796 m above sea level. It has an ethnic Serb majority; in the 1991 census, it had 161 inhabitants.

Popolan

Village
Popolan
Location in Kosovo
Coordinates:
Location Kosovo[lower-alpha 1]
DistrictPrizren
MunicipalitySuharekë
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Total274
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

The first mention of this village is from 1465. At the end of the 19th century, the Russian consul in Prizren mentioned this village and its rural church, which was inhabited by Serbs. The Russian consulate tried to prevent the violence by Albanians from a neighbouring village who did not allow the Popovljanians to have their Orthodox ceremonies in that church. In the Popovljane cemetery there is a Church dedicated to St. Nicholas, founded in 1626.[2][3]

There is a primary school in the village.[4]

Demographic history
Ethnic group 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981[5] 1991
Serbs 236
Albanians 6
Total[6] 290 331 385 330 242 161

Notes
  1. Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008. Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognized as an independent state by 99 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 113 UN member states recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 14 later withdrew their recognition.

References
  1. 2011 Kosovo Census results
  2. Atanasije Jevtić, Dossier Kosovo, p. 109
  3. Gojko Subotić, Nikola Dudić, L'art médiéval du Kosovo, p. 248
  4. Johanna Renate Döring-Smirnov, Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar zur Analyse Dreier Erzählungen von Vl. I. Dal&, Modellierung eines Lebensweges, O. Sagner, 1975, p. 43
  5. 1981 Census, Kosovo
  6. Kosovo censuses 1948-1991
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