Samodreža Самодрежа |
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Coordinates: 42°49′24″N 21°02′51″E / 42.8233°N 21.0475°ECoordinates: 42°49′24″N 21°02′51″E / 42.8233°N 21.0475°E | |
Country | Kosovo |
District | District of Mitrovica |
Samodreža (Serbian Cyrillic: Самодрежа) or Samadrexha (in Albanian), is a village in the Vučitrn municipality in Kosovo. It is inhabited by a majority of ethnic Albanians, of Muslim faith. The local Serbian Orthodox church, Church of St. John the Baptist has been used as a dumping ground and public toilet. According to Serbian myth, the church was used as a praying place for Prince Lazar of Serbia and his knights before the Battle of Kosovo (1389).