Английская Википедия:Banja, Skenderaj
Шаблон:Other places Шаблон:Infobox settlement Banja (Шаблон:Lang-sr-Cyrl, Шаблон:Lang-sq or Baja) or Banja Rudnička (Шаблон:Lang) is a settlement in the Skenderaj municipality in Kosovo. The rural settlement lies on a cadastral area with the same name, of 1033 hectares. The village has a Serbian majority; in the 1991 census, it had 274 inhabitants.
Geography
Banja is located circa 2 km from Rudnik, on the Peć–Kosovska Mitrovica road.Шаблон:Sfn
History
Banje or Banja Rudnička is an Old Serbian settlement.Шаблон:Sfn It is mentioned for the first time in a charter of Serbian King Stefan Uroš I (r. 1243–1276), dating to the mid-13th century, granted (metochion) to the Gračanica monastery.Шаблон:Sfn It was then granted by King Stefan Milutin (r. 1282–1321) to the Banjska Monastery.Шаблон:Sfn The village church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, as founded by nobleman Rodop who served Serbian Despot Đurađ Branković (r. 1427–1456), and was buried here in 1436.Шаблон:Sfn Two bells found in its ruins are preserved in the Patriarchal Monastery of Peć and National Museum in Belgrade.Шаблон:Sfn Between 1936–41 the church was renovated, but destroyed during World War IIШаблон:Sfn by Albanian fascists.[1][2][3]Шаблон:Request quotation The village was among those in North Kosovo that was burned down by Albanian paramilitaries and the Serb population expelled.[4] In 1971 the church was reconstructed.Шаблон:Sfn The church was used as a model for an Orthodox church in Norway.[5]
On the night of 21 May 1998 a large number of Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army members of Drenica attacked the villages of Banja and Suvo Grlo (which are inhabited by Serbs) and a military station in Rudnik, above Skenderaj. Serbs and Serbian police answered the fire, no deaths or injuries were reported by them.[6]
Ethnic group | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981[7] | 1991 |
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Serbs | 338 | |||||
Albanians | 32 | |||||
Total[8] | 552 | 595 | 636 | 513 | 371 | 274 |
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