Bajë
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Village | |
Coordinates: 42°48′51″N 20°40′21″E / 42.81417°N 20.67250°E | |
Location | Kosovo |
District | Mitrovicë |
Municipality | Skënderaj |
Elevation | 761 m (2,497 ft) |
Population (2011)
[1] | |
• Total | 340 |
Time zone | UTC+1 ( CET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+2 ( CEST) |
Area code | +381 290 |
Car plates | 02 |
Banja (Banje; Serbian Cyrillic: Бања, Бање, Albanian: Bajë or Baja), or Banja Rudnička ( Serbian Cyrillic: Бања Рудничка), is a settlement in the Skenderaj municipality in Kosovo. The rural settlement lies on a cadastral area with the same name, of 1033 hectares. The village has a Serbian majority; in the 1991 census, it had 274 inhabitants.
Banja is located circa 2 km from Rudnik, on the Peć–Kosovska Mitrovica road. [2]
Banje or Banja Rudnička is an Old Serbian settlement. [2] It is mentioned for the first time in a charter of Serbian King Stefan Uroš I (r. 1243–1276), dating to the mid-13th century, granted ( metochion) to the Gračanica monastery. [2] It was then granted by King Stefan Milutin (r. 1282–1321) to the Banjska Monastery. [2] The village church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, as founded by nobleman Rodop who served Serbian Despot Đurađ Branković (r. 1427–1456), and was buried here in 1436. [3] Two bells found in its ruins are preserved in the Patriarchal Monastery of Peć and National Museum in Belgrade. [3] Between 1936–41 the church was renovated, but destroyed during World War II [3] by Albanian fascists. [4] [5] [6][ need quotation to verify] The village was among those in North Kosovo that was burned down by Albanian paramilitaries and the Serb population expelled. [7] In 1971 the church was reconstructed. [3] The church was used as a model for an Orthodox church in Norway. [8]
On the night of 21 May 1998 a large number of Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army members of Drenica attacked the villages of Banja and Suvo Grlo (which are inhabited by Serbs) and a military station in Rudnik, above Skenderaj. Serbs and Serbian police answered the fire, no deaths or injuries were reported by them. [9]
Ethnic group | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 [10] | 1991 |
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Serbs | 338 | |||||
Albanians | 32 | |||||
Total [11] | 552 | 595 | 636 | 513 | 371 | 274 |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 42°48′51″N 20°40′21″E / 42.81417°N 20.67250°E | |
Location | Kosovo |
District | Mitrovicë |
Municipality | Skënderaj |
Elevation | 761 m (2,497 ft) |
Population (2011)
[1] | |
• Total | 340 |
Time zone | UTC+1 ( CET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+2 ( CEST) |
Area code | +381 290 |
Car plates | 02 |
Banja (Banje; Serbian Cyrillic: Бања, Бање, Albanian: Bajë or Baja), or Banja Rudnička ( Serbian Cyrillic: Бања Рудничка), is a settlement in the Skenderaj municipality in Kosovo. The rural settlement lies on a cadastral area with the same name, of 1033 hectares. The village has a Serbian majority; in the 1991 census, it had 274 inhabitants.
Banja is located circa 2 km from Rudnik, on the Peć–Kosovska Mitrovica road. [2]
Banje or Banja Rudnička is an Old Serbian settlement. [2] It is mentioned for the first time in a charter of Serbian King Stefan Uroš I (r. 1243–1276), dating to the mid-13th century, granted ( metochion) to the Gračanica monastery. [2] It was then granted by King Stefan Milutin (r. 1282–1321) to the Banjska Monastery. [2] The village church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, as founded by nobleman Rodop who served Serbian Despot Đurađ Branković (r. 1427–1456), and was buried here in 1436. [3] Two bells found in its ruins are preserved in the Patriarchal Monastery of Peć and National Museum in Belgrade. [3] Between 1936–41 the church was renovated, but destroyed during World War II [3] by Albanian fascists. [4] [5] [6][ need quotation to verify] The village was among those in North Kosovo that was burned down by Albanian paramilitaries and the Serb population expelled. [7] In 1971 the church was reconstructed. [3] The church was used as a model for an Orthodox church in Norway. [8]
On the night of 21 May 1998 a large number of Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army members of Drenica attacked the villages of Banja and Suvo Grlo (which are inhabited by Serbs) and a military station in Rudnik, above Skenderaj. Serbs and Serbian police answered the fire, no deaths or injuries were reported by them. [9]
Ethnic group | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 [10] | 1991 |
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Serbs | 338 | |||||
Albanians | 32 | |||||
Total [11] | 552 | 595 | 636 | 513 | 371 | 274 |
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