Berevce

Berevce (Serbian Cyrillic: Беревце, Albanian: Beroc) is a settlement in the Štrpce municipality in Kosovo. It is inhabited by ethnic Serbs,[2][3] according to the 1991 census, it had 792 inhabitants.

Berevce
Village
Berevce is located in Kosovo
Berevce
Berevce
Location in Kosovo
Coordinates: 42°14′44″N 21°01′28″E
LocationKosovo
DistrictFerizaj
MunicipalityŠtrpce
First mention13th century
Area
  Total145.8 km2 (56.3 sq mi)
Elevation
974 m (3,196 ft)
Population
 (2011)[1]
  Total287
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code+381 290
Car plates05

Geography

It is situated in the northeastern part of the Šar Mountains, at the foot of a ridge of the Žar Mountain, on the left riverbank[3] of the Lepenac.[4] It is physiognomically like the southern part of Štrpce.[4]

History

In Medieval Serbia, the župa (province) of Sirinić (first mentioned in a charter of the 13th century, the second time in 1331, in a charter of Emperor Stephen Dušan) existed, covering the whole of modern Štrpce municipality, having two cities, Gradište (in Brezovica) and Zidinac (in Gotovuša), near Berevce. Several remains of Byzantine forts exist in the region.[5]

In 1894, the village had 62 houses, all ethnic Serb.[6]

According to data from 1938, the village had the following kin families, with their number of houses, traditions (Krsna Slava, patron saint day), and history:[7][8]

  • Đurinac (13 houses, Slava of St. Nicholas).
  • Mutavdžijin (1 house, St. Nicholas).
  • Šarkočević (13 houses, St. Nicholas).
  • Kovačević (11 houses, Vavedenje), settled from the vicinity of Kaçanik.
  • Popović (6 houses), Krpačević (4 houses) and Boško (5 houses), all with the Slava of St. Demetrius. They hail from Montenegro, from where they settled in Mušutište, in Metohija, then in Berevce at the end of the 18th century. They are kin to the Popović of Gornja Bitinja.
Demographic history
Ethnic group 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981[9] 1991
Serbs 864 (98,63%)
Others 12 (1,37%)
Total[10] 682 706 751 846 876 792

Infrastructure

The rural settlement has a cadastre of 1458 hectares, with primarily livestock farming (ratarsko-stočarstvo) and Pomology.[4]

References

  1. 2011 Kosovo Census results
  2. Republic of Serbia, Министарствo за Косово и Метохију, Општина Штрпце Archived 2010-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Dimitrije M. Kalezić, Enciklopedija pravoslavlja, Book 1, Savremena administracija, 2002, p. 166
  4. Srboljub Đ Stamenković, Географска енциклопедија населjа Србије: С-Ш, Volume 4, Географски факултет, 2002, p. 323
  5. Rastko
  6. Branislav Đ Nušić, S Kosova na sinje more: beleške s puta kroz Arbanase 1894. godine, Čigoja štampa, 2005, p. 18
  7. Podaci „Naselja“ (dr. A. Urošević: Šarplaninska Župa Sirinić)
  8. Annuaire, Volume 1, Univerzitet vo Skopje. Prirodno-matematički oddel, Oddel, Jan 1, 1948, p. 170
  9. "1981 Census, Kosovo". Archived from the original on 2012-03-17. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
  10. "Kosovo censuses 1948-1991". Archived from the original on 2020-01-13. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
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