Country Kosovo Elevation 563 m (1,847 ft) Area code(s) +383 38 Area 338 km² Population 58,373 (2014) | District District of Pristina Time zone CET (UTC+1) Car plates 01 Postal code 14000 | |
 | ||
Weather 14°C, Wind SW at 47 km/h, 37% Humidity | ||
Lipljan sedamnaest godina posle
Lipjan (in Albanian: Lipjani) or Lipljan (in Serbian Cyrillic: Липљан) is a city and municipality in the District of Pristina of central Kosovo.
Contents
Map of Lipjan
Name
The Roman city of Ulpiana was located near Lipljan and it was named in honor of the Roman Emperor Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus. In the early Middle Ages in was part of the Bulgarian Empire and a diocese of the Bulgarian Patiarchate. The neo-Latin form Lypenion for the city occurs for the first time in a Byzantine text from 1018 AD that confirmed the town as an episcopal seat of the Bulgarian Archbishopric of Ohrid following the Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria in the same year.
Roman period
Ulpiana played an important role in the development of the most important cities in the Roman province of Dardania.
Middle Ages
Lipljan was the seat of medieval Eparchy of Lipljan that existed up to the beginning of 18 century. The Gračanica monastery was built in 1321, on the ruins of two older churches.