Boljetin, Zvečan

Boljetin
Settlement
Boletin
Boljetin
Location in Kosove
Coordinates: 42°56′8″N 20°51′26″E / 42.93556°N 20.85722°E / 42.93556; 20.85722
Country Kosovo[lower-alpha 1]
District District of Mitrovica
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)

Boletin (Serbian Cyrillic: Бољетин; Albanian: Boletin) is a settlement in the municipality of Zvečan, Kosovo.[lower-alpha 1] There is a 14th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery in the village, the Sokolica Monastery.

Sokolica Monastery.

Notable people

  • Isa Boletini (1864–1916), leading Albanian nationalist and rebel commander

Annotations

  1. 1 2 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 received formal recognition as an independent state from 113 out of 193 United Nations member states.

References

    • "Location of Boljetin, Serbia". Retrieved 2010-06-20.
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