Lipjan

Lipjan
Липљан
Lipljan
Coat of Arms
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Location in Kosovo

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Population (1991)	69,451 (municipality)
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Time zone	UTC+1
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Lipjan (Albanian) or Lipljan/Липљан (Serbian) is a city in central Kosovo (under UN administration, formally part of Serbia).

[edit] Name and history

In Roman times the city was known as Ulpiana from which the name Lipjan is derived. Ulpiana was named by the Romans in honor of the Roman Emperor Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus. It is thought to be the birth place of Lekë Dukagjini (1410-1481), who replaced Skanderbeg as leader of the Albanian resistance against the Ottomans following the latters death in 1468.

The neo-Latin form Lypenion for the city occurs for the first time in a Greek text from 1018 AD.

Year/Population	Albanians	%	Serbs	%	Croats	%	Others	%	Total
Ethnic Composition, Including IDPs
1991	53,334	77.7	9,679	14.1	2,973	4.3	2,653	3.9	68,693
January 1999	62,706	81.3	9,985	13.0	N/A	N/A	5,834	7.6	77,087
2000	63,478	83.3	9,300	12.2	363	0.5	1,890	2.6	76,143
Source: 1991 figure: FRY Institute of Statistics, 1991 – “others” include Roma, Slav Muslim, Montenegrins, etc.; It is noted that the 1991 census was highly politicised and is thus unreliable. 1999 figure: UNHCR Kosovo Village List, 9 March 1999; Figure from 2000, source Municipality of Lipjan Ref: OSCE [1]