Sevce ( sr-Cyrl, Севце) 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
Kosovo
Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with International recognition of Kosovo, partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the ...
. It is inhabited by ethnic
Serbs
The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Southeastern Europe who share a common Serbian Cultural heritage, ancestry, Culture of Serbia, culture, History of Serbia, history, and Serbian lan ...
, according to the 1991 census, it had 1,283 inhabitants.
Geography
It is situated in the northeastern part of the
Šar Mountains, in the drainage basin of the
Lepenac
The Lepenac (; ; , ) is a river in southern Kosovo and northern North Macedonia, a long left tributary to the Vardar river.
Course
Kosovo
The Lepenac springs out on the Oshlak mountain, east of the city of Prizren, at an altitude of . It ...
river.
[Srboljub Đ Stamenković]
Географска енциклопедија населjа Србије: С-Ш, Volume 4
Географски факултет, 2002, p. 326
History
In
Medieval Serbia
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, the ''
župa
A župa, or zhupa, is a historical type of administrative division in Southeast Europe and Central Europe, that originated in medieval South Slavs, South Slavic culture, commonly translated as "county" or "parish". It was mentioned for the first t ...
'' (province) of
Sirinić (first mentioned in a charter of the 13th century, the second time 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 ...
of
Emperor Stephen Dušan) existed, covering the whole of modern Štrpce municipality, having two cities,
Gradište (in
Brezovica) and
Zidinac (in
Gotovuša), near Sevce. Several remains of Byzantine forts exist in the region.
[Rastko]
/ref> In the charter of Emperor Dušan, Sevce is mentioned as Selce (Селце), a village which was granted (''metochion
A ''metochion'' or ''metochi'' ( or ; ) is an ecclesiastical embassy church within Eastern Orthodox tradition. It is usually from one autocephalous or autonomous church to another. The term is also used to refer to a parish representation (or ...
'') to the Monastery of St. Peter Koriški, submitted by the Emperor's nobleman Tošoje, as part of his heritage. The village is part of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox
The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
The majority of the populat ...
Eparchy of Raška and Prizren
Eparchy of Raška and Prizren is one of the oldest eparchy, eparchies of the Serbian Orthodox Church, featuring the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Patriarchate of Peć (monastery), Serbian Patriarchal Monastery of Peć, as well as Serb ...
.
In 1894, the village had 140 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:[Annuaire 1948, p. 174]
* Šubarić (12 houses, ''Slava'' of St. Archangel).
* Bogajčević (8 houses, St. Archangel).
* Cumpalević (11 houses, St. Archangel).
* Markagić (12 houses, St. Archangel).
* Pišmanović (10 houses, St. Archangel).
* Đekić (8 houses, St. Archangel).
* Basarić (19 houses, St. Nicholas).
* Kalpaković (7 houses, St. Nicholas).
* Prljinčević (12 houses, St. Nicholas).
* Bijačević (5 houses, St. Nicholas).
* Jocković (8 houses, St. Nicholas).
* Uzunović (17 houses, St. George
Saint George (;Geʽez: ጊዮርጊስ, , ka, გიორგი, , , died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was an early Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to holy tradition, he was a soldier in the ...
).
* Daćevac (16 houses, St. George).
* Sinikovac (16 houses, St. George).
* Ašujin (4 houses, St. Nicholas), very old migrants from Boka Kotorska
The Bay of Kotor ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Boka kotorska, Бока которска, separator=" / ", ), also known as the Boka ( sh-Cyrl, Бока), is a winding bay of the Adriatic Sea in southwestern Montenegro and the region of Montenegro concentrated a ...
.
* Đelić (5 houses, St. George), settled from Želina, in Polog
Polog (; ), also known as the Polog Valley (; ) is located in the north-western part of North Macedonia, near the border with Kosovo.
It is divided into Upper Polog (; ) and Lower Polog (; ). Tetovo and Gostivar are the largest populated towns ...
, in the mid 18th-century.
Infrastructure
The rural settlement has primarily livestock farming ().[
]
See also
* Svetomir Arsić-Basara (b. 1928), acclaimed Serbian sculptor, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (; , SANU) is a national academy and the most prominent academic institution in Serbia, founded in 1841 as Society of Serbian Letters (, DSS).
The Academy's membership has included Nobel Prize, Nobel la ...
, born in Sevce
References
Annuaire, Volume 1
Univerzitet vo Skopje. Prirodno-matematički oddel, Oddel, 1 January 1948
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Štrpce
Serbian enclaves in Kosovo
Šar Mountains
Villages in Štrpce