Lipjan
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Albanian: Lipjan / Lipjani Serbian: Липљан / Lipljan |
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 Lipljan
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| Coordinates: 42°32′N 21°06′E / 42.533°N 21.100°E | |
| Country | Kosovo |
| District | District of Pristina |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Imri Ahmeti LDK |
| Area | |
| • Total | 338 km2 (131 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 563 m (1,847 ft) |
| Population (2014) | |
| • Total | 58,373 |
| • Density | 170/km2 (450/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Postal code | 14000 |
| Area code(s) | +383 38 |
| Car plates | 01 |
| Website | kk |
Lipjan (in Albanian: Lipjani) or Lipljan (in Serbian Cyrillic: Липљан) is a city and municipality in the District of Pristina of central Kosovo.
The name of the town, Lipljan, is derived from the Serbian , "linden tree", referring to the local foliage. The name lipa is often used in South Slavic toponyms. The Roman city of Ulpiana was located near Lipljan and it was named in honor of the Roman Emperor Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus. In the early Middle Ages in was part of the Bulgarian Empire and a diocese of the Bulgarian Patiarchate. The neo-Latin form Lypenion for the city occurs for the first time in a Byzantine text from 1018 AD that confirmed the town as an episcopal seat of the Bulgarian Archbishopric of Ohrid following the Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria in the same year.
Ulpiana played an important role in the development of the most important cities in the Roman province of Dardania.
Lipljan was the seat of medieval Eparchy of Lipljan that existed up to the beginning of 18 century. The Gračanica monastery was built in 1321, on the ruins of two older churches.
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Coordinates: 42°31′48″N 21°08′19″E / 42.53000°N 21.13861°E
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