Koretište ( sr-Cyrl, Коретиште; erroneously ''Kuretište'' (Куретиште)) or Koretishti (), is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the municipality of

Gjilan Gjilan ( sq-definite, Gjilani) or Gnjilane ( sr-Cyrl, Гњилане) is the third most populous city in Kosovo and it serves as both a municipality and the administrative center of the District of Gjilan, Gjilan District. According to the 2024 ...

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. It is inhabited by majority of ethnic

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History

The village was mentioned as ''Karanište'' ( sr-Cyrl, Караниште) in the Ottoman ''

defter A ''defter'' was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire. Etymology The term is derived from Greek , literally 'processed animal skin, leather, fur', meaning a book, having pages of goat parchment used along with papyrus ...

'' of 1455 of the Vlk

Vilayet A vilayet (, "province"), also known by #Names, various other names, was a first-order administrative division of the later Ottoman Empire. It was introduced in the Vilayet Law of 21 January 1867, part of the Tanzimat reform movement initiated b ...

(Vilayet of Vuk), encompassing most of

Vuk Branković Vuk Branković ( sr-Cyrl, Вук Бранковић, , 1345 – 6 October 1397) was a Serbian medieval nobleman who, during the Fall of the Serbian Empire, inherited a province that extended over present-day southern and southwestern Serbia, enti ...

's former territory. At that time the village was populated with a priest and 14 households. On the Austrian map from 1689, it is registered under the name ''Koretište'' ( sr-Cyrl, link=no, Коретиште).

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*Koretište (Serbian Cyrillic: Коретиште) – video from the air (2017):
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''youtube.com'' Villages in Gjilan Serbian enclaves in Kosovo {{Kosovo-geo-stub

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