| Lipljan | |
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| — Municipality and city — | |
| Липљан (Lipljan) Lipjan (Lipjani) |
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Lipljan
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| Country | Kosovo[a] |
| District | District of Pristina |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Municipality and city | 57,474 (municipality) |
| • Density | 169.8/km2 (439.8/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 15,000 City |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Area code(s) | +381 38 |
| Car plates | 01 |
| Website | Municipality of Lipljan |
Lipljan (Albanian: Lipjan or Lipjani; Serbian: Липљан, Lipljan) is a city and municipality in the Pristina district of central Kosovo[a].
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In Roman times the city was known as Ulpiana from which the name Lipljan is derived. Ulpiana was named by the Romans in honor of the Roman Emperor Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus. The neo-Latin form Lypenion for the city occurs for the first time in a Greek text from 1018 AD.
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 latter's death in 1468. During the reign of Lekë Dukagjini as Prince of Dukagjini Ulpiana was his second capital city.[1]
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| Year/Population | Albanians | % | Serbs | % | Croats | % | Others | % | Total | ||||
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| 1961 | 24,433 | 60.98 | 10,902 | 27.21 | 3,304 | 8.25 | 1,431 | 3.57 | 40,070 | ||||
| 1991 | 53,730 | 77.36 | 9,713 | 13.99 | 2,914 | 4.20 | 3,094 | 4.45 | 69,451 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Ref: Yugoslav Population Censuses for data through 1991, OSCE estimates for 1999 and 2000 | |||||||||||||
The municipality is predominantly agriculture-oriented. After the 1999 conflict, most of the businesses are no longer operational. Many shops and restaurants have opened in the town, but approximately 80 % of the population remains unemployed.
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| a. | ^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Serbia and the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo. The latter declared independence on 17 February 2008, while Serbia claims it as part of its own sovereign territory. Its independence is recognised by 86 UN member states. |
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