Laplje Selo

Laplje Selo (Serbian Cyrillic: Лапље Село, Albanian: Llapllaselle) is a village in the Gračanica municipality of Kosovo.[2] Laplje Selo was part of the Pristina municipality before the Gračanica municipality was created.

Laplje Selo

Village
Laplje Selo
Coordinates:
Location Kosovo[lower-alpha 1]
DistrictPristina
MunicipalityGračanica
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Total892
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

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.[3] That number has since increased to just over 20 families.[4]

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][6]

Population
Ethnic Composition
Year Serbs  % Romani  % others  % Total
196198894.73%434.12%121.15%1043
1971101194.31%585.41%30.30%1072
1981114294.46%584.80%90.74%1209
1991128192.62%795.71%231.66%1383

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 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognized as an independent state by 97 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 112 UN member states recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.

References
  1. 2011 Kosovo Census results
  2. "Laplje Selo Map | Serbia and Montenegro Google Satellite Maps". Maplandia.com. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved June 13, 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved June 13, 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved June 13, 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. Janine Natalya Clark (20 June 2014). International Trials and Reconciliation: Assessing the Impact of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Taylor & Francis. pp. 166–. ISBN 978-1-317-97474-1.
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