Janjevci
Janjevci (, , ), Kosovo Croats (, ) or Janjevci Croats () are a Croat community in Kosovo, inhabiting the town of Janjevo and surrounding villages near Pristina, as well as villages centered on Letnica near Vitia (Šašare, Vrnez, and Vrnavokolo), who are also known as Letničani. They are not officially recognised as a national minority group.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Janjevci
- Ethnic group.native_name
- Janjevët or Janjevci or
- Ethnic group.native_name_lang
- sq
- Ethnic group.image
- Janjevë, Kosova.jpg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Town of Janjevo, the traditional centre of this community
- Ethnic group.population
- Unknown
- Ethnic group.popplace
- ca. 400 people (2011): ca. 966 families (2002 est.)
- Ethnic group.langs
- Janjevo-Lepenica idiom of Croatian (Prizren-Timok dialect)Albanian
- Ethnic group.rels
- Roman Catholicism
- Ethnic group.related
- Croats
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Article
12 sectionsContents
- Identity and culture
- Folklore
- Oral traditions
- Folk costume
- Language
- Religion
- Demographic history
- Janjevci community in Croatia
- Famous people
- See also
- References
- External links
Janjevci (, , ), Kosovo Croats (, ) or Janjevci Croats () are a Croat community in Kosovo, inhabiting the town of Janjevo and surrounding villages near Pristina, as well as villages centered on Letnica near Vitia (Šašare, Vrnez, and Vrnavokolo), who are also known as Letničani. They are not officially recognised as a national minority group.
They are considered among the oldest of the Croatian diaspora communities.