Country Kosovo Time zone CET (UTC+1) Car plates 05 Population 452 (1991) | District District of Ferizaj Area code(s) +381 290 Elevation 738 m Municipality Štrpce | |
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Viča (Serbian Cyrillic: Вича, Albanian: Viqë) is a settlement in the Štrpce municipality in Kosovo. It is inhabited by ethnic Serbs and Albanians, according to the 1991 census, it had 452 inhabitants.
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Geography
It is situated in the northeastern part of the Šar Mountains, of which valley sides of the Viča river, a left tributary of the Lepenac. It lies 2 km north of the Prizren-Štrpce-Doganović regional road.
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 Viča. Several remains of Byzantine forts exist in the region.
The village is part of the ecclessiastical jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Raška and Prizren.
In 1894, the village had 40 houses, of which 35 were Serb, 4 Albanian/Albanized, and one Islamized Serb.
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:
Infrastructure
The rural settlement has primarily livestock farming (ratarsko-stočarstvo).