Samodreža
Samodreža (Serbian Cyrillic: Самодрежа) or Samadrexha (in Albanian), is a village in the Vučitrn municipality in Kosovo. It is inhabited by a majority of ethnic Albanians, of Muslim faith.
Samadrexhë
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  Samadrexhë | |
| Coordinates: 42.8233°N 21.0475°E | |
| Location |  Kosovo[lower-alpha 1] |
| District | Mitrovicë |
| Municipality | Vushtrri |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 1,321 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
The local Serbian Orthodox church, Church of St. John the Baptist it’s a monument of middle age.[2] According to Serbian myth, the church was used as a praying place for Prince Lazar of Serbia and his knights before the Battle of Kosovo (1389).[3]
Notes
- The political status of Kosovo is disputed. Having unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008, it is formally recognised as an independent state by 97 UN member states (with another 15 recognising it at some point but then withdrawing recognition), while Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory.
References
- 2011 Kosovo Census results
- Црква у Самодрежи поново претворена у јавни тоалет (in Serbian).
- Cultural monuments in Serbia: The Church of St. John the Baptist (web-page of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts) (in Serbian)
External links
Media related to Samodreža at Wikimedia Commons
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