Ugljare

Ugljare (Serbian Cyrillic: Угљаре, Albanian: Uglar) is a village in the Gračanica municipality of Kosovo. Ugljare was part of the Kosovo Polje municipality before the Gračanica municipality was created.

It is a Serb enclave; it has a supermajority of ethnic Serbs.[1]

Word Ugljare comes from the Serbian word ugalj meaning coal. It is place located about 5 kilometers from city center of Pristina and 12 kilometers from the Gračanica monastery. Also, the village is in the valley for 2 kilometers southeast of the train station "Kosovo Polje". There is river passing through the Ugljare, Prištevka.

References

  1. ↑ Bouckaert, Peter (2004). Failure to Protect: Anti-minority Violence in Kosovo, March 2004. Human Rights Watch. p. 42. GGKEY:XX8XTDK4E19. Retrieved 17 March 2013.

Coordinates: 42°37′41″N 21°06′27″E / 42.62806°N 21.10750°E / 42.62806; 21.10750

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