Laplje Selo
| Laplje Selo Лапље Село | |
|---|---|
| Village | |
| Laplje Selo | |
| Country |
 SerbiaSerbia[lower-alpha 1] |
| Municipality | Gračanica |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
Laplje Selo (Serbian Cyrillic: Лапље Село, Albanian: Llapllaselle) is a village/settlement in the Gračanica municipality of Kosovo, Serbia.[1] Laplje Selo was part of the Pristina municipality before the Gracanica municipality was created.
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.[2] That number has since increased to just over 20 families.[3]
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]
Population
| Ethnic Composition | |||||||||||||
| Year | Serbs | % | Romani | % | others | % | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 988 | 94.73% | 43 | 4.12% | 12 | 1.15% | 1043 | ||||||
| 1971 | 1011 | 94.31% | 58 | 5.41% | 3 | 0.30% | 1072 | ||||||
| 1981 | 1142 | 94.46% | 58 | 4.80% | 9 | 0.74% | 1209 | ||||||
| 1991 | 1281 | 92.62% | 79 | 5.71% | 23 | 1.66% | 1383 | ||||||
Notes and references
Notes:
- ↑ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Kosovo. The latter declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. Kosovo's independence has been recognised by 108 out of 193 United Nations member states.
References:
- ↑ http://www.maplandia.com/serbia-and-montenegro/kosovo/laplje-selo/
- ↑ http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=02&dd=06&nav_id=65030
- ↑ http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=06&dd=13&nav_id=67776
- ↑ http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=06&dd=13&nav_id=67776
- ↑ http://www.b92.net/eng/news/crimes-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=01&dd=17&nav_id=64533
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Coordinates: 42°35′48″N 21°08′27″E / 42.59667°N 21.14083°E