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Lipjan/Lipljan | |
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Municipality and city | |
| Липљан (Lipljan) Lipjan (Lipjani) | |
| Country | Kosovo[a] |
| District | District of Pristina |
| Government | |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Municipality and city | 57,474 (municipality) |
| • Density | 169.8/km2 (440/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 15,000 City |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +381 38 |
| Car plates | 01 |
| Website | Municipality of Lipjan |
Lipjan or Lipljan (Albanian: Lipjan or Lipjani; Serbian: Липљан, Lipljan, Turkish: Liplan) is a city and municipality in the Pristina district of central Kosovo.[a]
Name
The Serbian name of the town, Lipljan, is derived from the ancient Roman toponym Ulpiana modified by association with the Serbo-Croatian lipa "linden tree".[1] The name lipa is often used in South Slavic toponyms.[1] The Roman city of Ulpiana was located near Lipljan and it was named in honor of the Roman Emperor Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus. The neo-Latin form Lypenion for the city occurs for the first time in a Greek text from 1018 AD.
History
Roman period
Ulpiana played an important role in the development of the most important cities in the Roman province of Dardania.
Middle Ages
The Gračanica monastery was built in 1321, on the ruins of two older churches.
Demographics
| Ethnic Composition, Including IDPs | |||||||||||||
| Year/Population | Albanians | % | Serbs | % | Croats | % | Others | % | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 census | 24,433 | 60.98 | 10,902 | 27.21 | 3,304 | 8.25 | 1,431 | 3.57 | 40,070 | ||||
| 1991 census | 53,730 | 77.36 | 9,713 | 13.99 | 2,914 | 4.20 | 3,094 | 4.45 | 69,451 | ||||
| January 1999 (OSCE est.) | 62,706 | 81.3 | 9,985 | 13.0 | N/A | N/A | 5,834 | 7.6 | 77,087 | ||||
| 2000 (OSCE est.) | 63,478 | 83.3 | 9,300 | 12.2 | 363 | 0.5 | 1,890 | 2.6 | 76,143 | ||||
Economy
The municipality is predominantly agriculture-oriented. After the 1999 conflict, most of the businesses are no longer operational. Many shops and restaurants have opened in the town, but approximately 80% of the population remains unemployed.[when?]
See also
Notes and references
Notes:
References
- ^ a b Skok, Petar (1988) [1971], Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), vol. 2, Zagreb: Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, pp. 305–306, ISBN 86-407-0064-8
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