Mušutište ( sr-cyr, Мушутиште, sq, Mushtishtë) is a village in the
Suva Reka municipality in
Kosovo
Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...
. It is located to the west of the
Nerodimka mountain
The Nerodimka ( sr, Неродимка Планина, , sq, Mali i Nerodimës) or the Nerodime is a mountain range located in the south of Kosovo. It is named after the Serbian legend of the woman who cannot deliver a baby ( sr, Неродим ...
. It has 10 medieval
Serbian Orthodox
The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination, Christian churches.
The majori ...
churches, including the notable
Church of Virgin Hodegetria, which was destroyed in 1999.
It has an Albanian majority, and Serbian minority; according to the 1991 census, it had 5016 inhabitants.
History
It was first mentioned in a Serbian charter dating to 1315. In a charter of Emperor
Stephen Uroš IV Dušan, dating to 1348, Mušutište, along with the churches of
Virgin Hodegetria
A Hodegetria , ; russian: Одиги́трия, Odigítria ; Romanian: Hodighitria, or Virgin Hodegetria, is an iconographic depiction of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) holding the Child Jesus at her side while pointing to him as the source of sa ...
and
St. Symeon (Sv. Simeona), were granted (''
metochion
A ''metochion'' or ''metochi'' ( gr, μετόχιον, metóchion or gr, μετόχι, metóchi; russian: подворье, podvorie) is an ecclesiastical embassy church within Eastern Orthodox tradition. It is usually from one autocephalous or ...
'') to the
Saint Archangels Monastery in
Prizren.
The mass abduction in Mušutište was a
war crime against the Serb civilian population in Mušutište.
The abduction occurred on 12 June 1999, when Albanian soldiers attacked Mušutište and kidnapped 18 Serb civilians.
According to Human Rights Watch, among the victims were twelve men, five women and one five-year-old girl.
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References
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Villages in Suva Reka