Laplje Selo

Laplje Selo
Лапље Село
Village
Laplje Selo
Country Serbia Serbia
Serbia[lower-alpha 1]
Municipality Gračanica
Time zone CET (UTC+1)

Laplje Selo (Serbian Cyrillic: Лапље Село, Albanian: Llapllaselle) is a village/settlement in the Gračanica municipality of Kosovo, Serbia.[1] Laplje Selo was part of the Pristina municipality before the Gracanica municipality was created.

It is a Serb enclave situated south of Čaglavica, and has a supermajority of ethnic Serbs. During the Kosovo War, Serbs were displaced, after more than a decade, sixteen families returned to their village, on February 6, 2010.[2] That number has since increased to just over 20 families.[3]

Various problems, some of them related to anti-Serb sentiment, persist for returnees. There is no running water,[4] and harassment takes place, such as cemetery desecration.[5]

Population

Ethnic Composition
Year Serbs  % Romani  % others  % Total
1961 988 94.73% 43 4.12% 12 1.15%1043
1971 1011 94.31% 58 5.41% 3 0.30%1072
1981 1142 94.46% 58 4.80% 9 0.74%1209
1991 1281 92.62% 79 5.71% 23 1.66%1383

Notes and references

Notes:

  1. ↑ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the Brussels Agreement. Kosovo has been recognised as an independent state by 108 out of 193 United Nations member states.

References:

  1. ↑ http://www.maplandia.com/serbia-and-montenegro/kosovo/laplje-selo/
  2. ↑ http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=02&dd=06&nav_id=65030
  3. ↑ http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=06&dd=13&nav_id=67776
  4. ↑ http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=06&dd=13&nav_id=67776
  5. ↑ http://www.b92.net/eng/news/crimes-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=01&dd=17&nav_id=64533

Coordinates: 42°35′48″N 21°08′27″E / 42.59667°N 21.14083°E / 42.59667; 21.14083

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