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Gotovuša ( sr-cyr, Готовуша, ) is a settlement in the Štrpce 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 inhabited by ethnic
Serbs The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are the most numerous South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans in Southeastern Europe, who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history and language. The majority of Serbs live in their na ...
, according to the 1991 census, it had 986 inhabitants. The village houses two churches, protected by the Republic of Serbia.


Geography

It is situated in the northeastern part of the Šar Mountains, and in the drainage basin of the Lepenac river.


History

In Medieval Serbia, the ''
župa A župa (or zhupa, županija) is a historical type of administrative division in Southeast Europe and Central Europe, that originated in medieval South Slavic culture, commonly translated as "parish", later synonymous "kotar", commonly translate ...
'' (province) of Sirinić (first mentioned in 1331, in a
charter A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified. It is implicit that the granter retains superiority (or sovereignty), and that the rec ...
of Emperor Stephen Dušan) existed, covering the whole of modern Štrpce municipality, having two cities, Gradište (in Brezovica) and Zidinac (in Gotovuša). Several remains of Byzantine forts exist in the region. Gotovuša is mentioned for the first time in an Ottoman ''
defter A ''defter'' (plural: ''defterler'') was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire. Description The information collected could vary, but ''tahrir defterleri'' typically included details of villages, dwellings, household ...
'' (tax register) of 1455, as a great village with 64 houses, and an Orthodox priest. The Church of Saint Nicholas was built here in the mid-16th-century, and is currently under protection of the Republic of Serbia as part of the
Monuments of Culture of Exceptional Importance Immovable Cultural Heritage of Exceptional Importance ( sr, Непокретна културна добра од изузетног значаја/) are those objects of Immovable Cultural Heritage of Serbia, cultural heritage that enjoy the highes ...
( Cultural Heritage of Serbia-list, SK 1422), in the '' Churches of Sirinićka župa''-group.SANU, National Center for Digitization
Cultural Monuments in Serbia: Crkva Sv. Nikole
/ref>Šuput 1991, p. 59 The second church in Gotovuša is dedicated to the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos (Uspenja Presvete Bogorodice), built in 1557.SANU, National Center for Digitization
Cultural Monuments in Serbia: Crkva Sv. Bogorodice
/ref> Above the village, near the old fort of Zidinac, there are remains of several older churches. The village is part of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the
Serbian Orthodox The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. The majority of the population in ...
Eparchy of Raška and Prizren Eparchy of Raška and Prizren, al, Eparkia Rashkë - Prizren. Also known as the Eparchy of Raška-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija ( sr, / ; sq, Eparkia Rashkë - Prizren). is one of the oldest eparchies of the Serbian Orthodox Church, featuring t ...
. In 1894, the village had 87 houses, all ethnic Serb. According to data from 1938, the village had the following kin families, with their number of houses, traditions (''
Krsna Slava Slava ( sr-Cyrl, Слава, lit=Glory, Celebration, ) is a tradition of the ritual of glorification of one's family's patron saint, found mainly among Serbian Orthodox Christians. The family celebrates the Slava annually on the saint's feast ...
'', patron saint day), and history: * Bugarkin (4 houses, ''Slava'' of Sv. Petka). A male ancestor married a Bulgarian wife on ''pečalba'' (seasonal migrational work), hence their surname (meaning "of the emaleBulgarian"). * Kosmoćević (18 houses, Sv. Petka). * Đurđević and Kućanović (18 houses, Sv. Petka). * Kevkić (25 houses) and Toroćev (23 houses), both with the ''Slava'' of Sv. Nikole, settled in the end of the 18th century from the village of Seroja, near
Shkodër Shkodër ( , ; sq-definite, Shkodra) is the fifth-most-populous city of the Republic of Albania and the seat of Shkodër County and Shkodër Municipality. The city sprawls across the Plain of Mbishkodra between the southern part of Lake Shkod ...
. The Kevkić family heads were, in chronological manner starting from the nearest: Dobrosav (aged 90 in 1938), Simeon, Milenko, Stevan. * Projčević (2 houses, Sv. Nikole), settled from Polog. Before their arrival, they had the ''Slava'' of Sv. Arhanđela, but as they were the only ones in the village with that ''Slava'', and poor, they could not continue with having guests, so they changed their ''Slava'' to Sv. Nikole, which some other families had as ''Slava''. * Stojčević (8 houses, Sv. Arhanđeo), also settled from Polog. * Čantrić (24 houses, Sv. Petka), settled from Semanje near
Kaçanik Kaçanik ( sq-definite, Kaçaniku) or Kačanik ( sr-Cyrl, Качаник, ) is a town and municipality located in the Ferizaj District of southern Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Kaçanik has 15,634 inhabitants, while the munici ...
around 1830. They hail from Burnik near Ferizaj.


Infrastructure

The settlement is in the territory of a
cadastre A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes and bounds, metes-and-bounds of a country.Jo Henssen, ''Basic Principles of the Main Cadastral Systems in the World,'/ref> Often it is represented gra ...
of 1611 hectares. The village has a
primary school A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary e ...
, "Рајко Урошевић".Republic of Serbia, Službeni glasnik Republike Srbije, Issues 87–99, Jan 1, 2004


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References

* Marica Šuput
Spomenici srpskog crkvenog graditeljstva, XVI-XVII vek
Institut za istoriju umetnosti, Filozofski fakultet, 1991


External links


Bele poklade, Gotovusa
feast in Serbian Orthodox pre-Easter tradition (Video) {{DEFAULTSORT:Gotovusa Serbian enclaves in Kosovo Villages in Štrpce Šar Mountains Medieval Serbian sites in Kosovo