Shterpca
| Štrpce | |||
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Ski resort Brezovica and city of Štrpce
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 Location of the municipality of Štrpce within Kosovo |
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| Coordinates: 42°14′N 21°01′E / 42.233°N 21.017°ECoordinates: 42°14′N 21°01′E / 42.233°N 21.017°E | |||
| Country | Kosovo | ||
| District | District of Ferizaj | ||
| Settlements | 17 | ||
| Government | |||
| • Provisional president | Bratislav Nikolić (GIS) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 247.36 km2 (95.51 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 975 m (3,199 ft) | ||
| Population (2015) | |||
| • Total | 13,630 | ||
| • Density | 55/km2 (140/sq mi) | ||
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| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 73000 | ||
| Area code(s) | +383(0)290 | ||
| Car plates | 05 | ||
| Website | kk |
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Štrpce (Serbian Cyrillic: Штрпце; Albanian: Shtërpcë / Shtërpca) is a town and municipality located in the Ferizaj District in Kosovo. As of 2015, it has an estimated population of 13,630 inhabitants.
After the 2013 Brussels Agreement, the municipality became part of the Community of Serb Municipalities.
In Medieval Serbia, the župa (county, district) of Sirinić (Sirinićka župa), first mentioned in a 13th-century charter, covered the whole of modern Štrpce municipality, having the towns of Gradište (site in Brezovica) and Zidinac (site in Gotovuša). Several remains of Byzantine forts exist in the region. At the top of the Čajlije hill, above the mouth of the Piljevac creek of the Lepenac river, there exists the remains of the Gradište fort, which has two layers, the first from the 6th century, and the second from the 13th century. The fort is in ruins, of which a donjon tower, and outlines of other buildings, can be identified. The entrance to the city, at the north, was protected by a tower. From that tower, a rampart continued, with another tower, from where a defensive wall stretched to the foot of the hill, towards the Lepenac.
On June 28, 1944, during World War II, Bulgarian soldiers executed 46 locals (of whom 12 were children) on the Rakanovac site in Brezovica, after the death of one of their soldiers.
According to the 2011 census done by the Government of Kosovo, the municipality of Štrpce had 6,949 inhabitants; 3,757 Kosovo Albanians (54%), 3,148 Kosovo Serbs (45.3%), and others. However, these results should be taken with caution, due to the partial boycott by Kosovo Serbs. According to the Municipal Office for Communities and Returns (MOCR), the total population is estimated at 13,630 inhabitants.ECMI calculated in 2013 that there were 9,100 (70.58%) Serbs in Štrpce.
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