Viça, Štrpce

Viçë Viçë (Albanian) Вича/Viča (Serbian)
Village
Viçë Location in Kosovo
Coordinates: 42°15′57″N 21°04′50″E / 42.26583°N 21.08056°E / 42.26583; 21.08056
Location	Kosovo
District	Ferizaj
Municipality	Shtërpcë
Area
• Total	0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation	2,421 ft (738 m)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	209
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	+381 290
Car plates	05

Viçë or Viča is a settlement in the Shtërpcë municipality in Kosovo. It has 209 inhabitants, of whom 197 are Albanians and 12 are Serbs.^[1]

It is situated in the northeastern part of the Sharr Mountains, of which valley sides of the Viča river, a left tributary of the Lepenac.^[2] It lies 2 km north of the Prizren-Štrpce-Doganović regional road.^[2]

In Medieval Serbia, the župa (province) of Siriniq (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.^[3]

The village is part of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Raška and Prizren.

In 1894, the village had 40 houses, of which 35 were Serb, 4 Albanian, and one Islamized Serb.^[4]

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:^[5][6]

• Karadžić (5 houses, Slava of St. Nicholas).
• Velan (12 houses, St. Nicholas), settled from Kabash, in Metohija, at the end of the 18th century.
• Lukačić (12 houses, St. Nicholas) settled from Dragobilje, in Metohija, at the end of the 18th century. Part of their kin family, which stayed in Metohija, converted into Islam after their departure.
• Alilovit (13 houses), an Albanian family, settled from northern Albania in the 19th century, part of the Berisha fis.

The rural settlement has primarily livestock farming (ratarsko-stočarstvo).^[2]