Gotovuša ( sr-Cyrl, Готовуша, ) is a settlement in the

Štrpce Štrpce (Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Serbian Cyrillic: Штрпце) or Shtërpcë ( sq-definite, Shtërpca) is a List of cities in Kosovo, town and Municipalities of Kosovo, municipality located in the District of Ferizaj, Ferizaj District in Kosov ...

municipality in

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. It is inhabited by ethnic

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, according to the 1991 census, it had 986 inhabitants. The village houses two churches, protected by the Republic of Kosovo.

Geography

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

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river.

History

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, the ''

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'' (province) of Sirinić (first mentioned in 1331, in a

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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 ''

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'' (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

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as part of the

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( Cultural Heritage of Serbia-list, SK 1422), in the ''

Churches of Sirinićka župa Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...

''-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

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. 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 (, ) is a family's annual ceremony and veneration of their patron saint. The ceremony is found mainly among Orthodox Serbs. Although its origin is unknown, this old tradition is an important ethnic marker of Serbian identity. It is a ...

'', 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

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. 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

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. 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 List of cities in Kosovo, town and Municipalities of Kosovo, municipality located in the District of Ferizaj, Ferizaj District of southern Kosovo. According to the 2 ...

around 1830. They hail from Burnik near

Ferizaj Ferizaj or Uroševac,, or Uroševac sr-Cyrl, Урошевац, . Also formerly known as Ferizovići (). is a city and a municipality in Kosovo. It is the third largest city in Kosovo by population and also the seat of Ferizaj Municipality and ...

Infrastructure

The settlement is in the territory of a

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of 1611 hectares. The village has a

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, "Рајко Урошевић".Republic of Serbia, Službeni glasnik Republike Srbije, Issues 87–99, Jan 1, 2004

References

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

External links

Bele poklade, Gotovusa
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