Lipljan

Lipljan

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Lipjan / Lipjani
Липљан / Lipljan




leader_name = Shukri Buja
leader_title =Mayor
area_km2 =
elevation_m =
population_total = 69,451 (municipality)
population_as_of = 1991
population_density_km2 =
area_code = 381
timezone = CET |utc_offset =+1
website =
footnotes =

Lipljan or Lipjan (Albanian: "Lipjan" or "Lipjani"; Serbian: Липљан, "Lipljan") is a city and municipality in central Kosovo.

Name and history

In Roman times the city was known as Ulpiana from which the name Lipjan is derived. Ulpiana was named by the Romans 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.

It is thought to be the birth place of Lekë Dukagjini (1410-1481), who replaced Skanderbeg as leader of the Albanian resistance against the Ottomans following the latters death in 1468.

Demographics

Economy

The municipality is predominantly agriculture-oriented. After the 1999 conflict, most of the businesses areno longer operational. Many shops and restaurants have opened in the town, but approximately 80 % of thepopulation remains unemployed.

ee also

* Priština District

References

External links

* [http://www.lipjan-komuna.org/ Municipal website]
* [http://www.osce.org/item/1193.html?html=1 OSCE Profile of Lipjan]
* [http://www.sok-kosovo.org/pdf/population/Kosovo_and_its_population.pdf SOK Kosovo and its population]


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