Llapusha (indefinite
Albanian: ''Llapushë''; sq, Llapusha, Prekorupa; sr-Cyrl, Prekoruplje/Прекорупље) is a geographic and ethnographic region 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 ...
, including the eastern portion of the larger
Metohija region which includes the western part of Kosovo. It is located between
Podgor,
Podrimlje,
Drenica
Drenica ( al, Drenicë, Drenica, ), also known as the Drenica Valley, is a hilly region in central Kosovo, covering roughly around of Kosovo's total area (6%). It consists of two municipalities, Drenas and Skenderaj, and several villages in Kli ...
and
Lapušnik. It stretches mainly over the basin area of two rivers, lower
Klina
Klina ( sq-definite, Klinë; Serbian Cyrillic: ) is a town and municipality located in the District of Peja of north-western Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Klina has 5,542 inhabitants, while the municipality has 38,496 inhabitan ...
and
Miruša, and includes ca. 40 settlements.
Orahovac
Rahovec ( sq-definite, Rahoveci) or Orahovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Ораховац) is a town and municipality located in the District of Prizren in western Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Rahovec has 15,892 inhabitants, while the ...
is the centre of Llapusha. The area is predominantly inhabited by Albanians.
Geography
Llapusha is one of the parts of Metohija.
It is located between
Podgor,
Podrimlje,
Drenica
Drenica ( al, Drenicë, Drenica, ), also known as the Drenica Valley, is a hilly region in central Kosovo, covering roughly around of Kosovo's total area (6%). It consists of two municipalities, Drenas and Skenderaj, and several villages in Kli ...
and
Lapušnik. It is a hilly region that includes the landscape on the left riverbank of Beli Drim, from Podgor to the watershed of Miruša and Klina; spreading from the western rim of southern Drenica, on the left side of the Beli Drim.
It stretches mainly over the basin area of two rivers, lower
Klina
Klina ( sq-definite, Klinë; Serbian Cyrillic: ) is a town and municipality located in the District of Peja of north-western Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Klina has 5,542 inhabitants, while the municipality has 38,496 inhabitan ...
and
Miruša, and includes ca. 40 settlements.
Orahovac
Rahovec ( sq-definite, Rahoveci) or Orahovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Ораховац) is a town and municipality located in the District of Prizren in western Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Rahovec has 15,892 inhabitants, while the ...
is the centre of Llapusha.
It includes the municipalities of Orahovac,
Klina
Klina ( sq-definite, Klinë; Serbian Cyrillic: ) is a town and municipality located in the District of Peja of north-western Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Klina has 5,542 inhabitants, while the municipality has 38,496 inhabitan ...
,
Mališevo
Malisheva, ) is a town and municipality in Kosovo. According to the Kosovo Agency of Statistics (KAS) estimate from the 2011 census, there were 54,613 people residing in Malisheva Municipality, with Kosovo Albanians constituting the majority of th ...
and northern
Suva Reka.
History
Part of Llapusha was included in the
1455 defter of the Branković lands.
Demographics
Llapusha is predominantly inhabited by Muslim
Albanians.
Velika Hoča
Velika Hoča ( sr-Cyrl, Велика Хоча, sq, Hoçë e Madhe) is a village in the municipality of Rahovec, in Kosovo. It is one of the Serb enclaves in Kosovo, and houses some 13 Orthodox church buildings, most of which date to the Serbian ...
is a
Serb enclave located in Orahovac municipality. There is a small Romani community.
Anthropology
According to ethnographical studies published in 1912, Llapusha had 44 villages with 231 Serb, 457 Albanian Muslim, 108 Catholic and 14
Muhajir
Muhajir or Mohajir ( ar, مهاجر, '; pl. , ') is an Arabic word meaning ''migrant'' (see immigration and emigration) which is also used in other languages spoken by Muslims, including English. In English, this term and its derivatives may refer ...
families.
Svetozar Raičević studied Metohijski Podgor and Llapusha, publishing preliminary results in 1935. He described that: Podgor takes up the northern part of Metohija and extends from Peć to the village of Rudnik on the road between Peć and Kosovska Mitrovica. Llapusha is south of this region, on the left side of the Drim, and reaches to the Miruša river. The old Serb population was almost entirely displaced, and one part was Albanianized. The Serb population in these regions, at that time, were mostly settled from the Dinaric areas. He noted that the ethnic movements in these areas were not yet completed. Serbs were more numerous than the Albanians. There were clean Serb villages and those where Serbs and Albanians lived together, only little villages with clean Albanian population. Catholic Albanians were only present in the municipality of Zlokućane and in Đurakovac; the rest of the Albanians are all Muslims. Apart from Serbs and Albanians there were Gypsies, of two types, the Mađupi and Gabelji, Muslims. A special group of people were the Čitaci, in the villages of Čitak and Broćna, who "don't know their ancestry, their mother tongue is Albanian, and they also know a little Serbian".
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Geographical regions of Kosovo
Kosovo Ethnographic Regions
Albanian ethnographic regions