Mushtisht Explained

Mushtisht
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Kosovo
Pushpin Label Position:left
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Kosovo
Coordinates:42.2986°N 20.8889°W
Subdivision Type:Location
Subdivision Type1:District
Subdivision Name1:Prizren
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:Suhareka
Population Total:3394
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population As Of:2011
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2

Mushtisht or Mušutište (Serbian: Мушутиште) is a village in the Suhareka municipality in Kosovo. It is located to the west of the Nerodimka mountain. It has 10 medieval Serbian Orthodox churches, including the notable Church of Virgin Hodegetria, which was destroyed in 1999.

The village used to have a mixed Albanian-Serbian population; according to the 1991 census, it had 5016 inhabitants. The Serbian inhabitants fled the village during the Kosovo war. All their houses were subsequently set on fire and most of their properties usurped. Their return to the village has been actively opposed by an Albanian group.[2]

History

It was first mentioned in a Serbian charter dating to 1315. In a charter of Emperor Stephen Uroš IV Dušan, dating to 1348, Mušutište, along with the churches of Virgin Hodegetria and St. Symeon (Sv. Simeona), were granted (metochion) to the Saint Archangels Monastery in Prizren. The churches were destroyed in the 1999 conflict.

The mass abduction in Mušutište was a war crime against the Serb civilian population in Mušutište, who used to be a majority there .[3] The abduction occurred on 12 June 1999, when Albanian soldiers attacked Mušutište and kidnapped 17 Serb civilians.[3]

Demographic history
Ethnic groupstyle=width:3em 1948style=width:3em 1953style=width:3em 1961style=width:3em 1971style=width:3em 1981[4] style=width:3em 1991
style=font-weight:300 Albanians2980
style=font-weight:300 Serbs1173
style=font-weight:300 Others2
Total[5] 234625412816330741555016

Notable people

Notes and References

  1. http://pop-stat.mashke.org/kosovo-ethnic-loc2011.htm 2011 Kosovo Census results
  2. Web site: Hasanaj . Marija Ristic, Cazim . 2016-08-29 . Violent Protest Against Kosovo Serbs Condemned . 2023-03-07 . Balkan Insight . en-US.
  3. Web site: Српско село Мушутиште на КиМ: Старци бачени у бунаре, манастир порушен. Serb village Mušutište, in Kosovo: elders were thrown into wells, monastery demolished. 1 June 2015. sr. srbijadanas.net. 2 September 2017.
  4. http://pop-stat.mashke.org/kosovo-ethnic-loc1981.htm 1981 Census, Kosovo
  5. http://pop-stat.mashke.org/kosovo-census.htm Kosovo censuses 1948-1991