Mušutište

Mušutište (Serbian Cyrillic: Мушутиште, Albanian: Mushtishtë) is a village in the Suva Reka municipality in Kosovo. It is located to the west of the Nerodimka mountain. It has 10 medieval Serbian Orthodox churches, including the notable Church of Virgin Hodegetria, which was destroyed in 1999.

It has an Albanian majority, and Serbian minority; according to the 1991 census, it had 5016 inhabitants.

History

It was first mentioned in a Serbian charter dating to 1315. In a charter of Emperor Stephen Uroš IV Dušan, dating to 1348, Mušutište, along with the churches of Virgin Hodegetria and St. Symeon (Sv. Simeona), were granted (metochion) to the Saint Archangels Monastery in Prizren.

Demographic history
Ethnic group 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981[1] 1991
Albanians 2980
Serbs 1173
Others 2
Total[2] 2346 2541 2816 3307 4155 5016

Notable people

References

Coordinates: 42°18′01″N 20°53′06″E / 42.300151°N 20.885095°E / 42.300151; 20.885095

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