Lipjan
Lipjan () or Lipljan () is a city and municipality located in the District of Pristina in Kosovo. According to 2024 census, the municipality had 55,044 inhabitants, of whom 13,092 lived in the urban area.
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- Lipjan
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- Ulpiana
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- City and municipality
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- Kosovo
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- District of Pristina
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14 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Early Period
- Middle Ages
- Ottoman Era
- Kosovo War and Aftermath
- Geography
- Demographics
- Ethnic groups
- Religions
- Municipality
- See also
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Lipjan () or Lipljan () is a city and municipality located in the District of Pristina in Kosovo. According to 2024 census, the municipality had 55,044 inhabitants, of whom 13,092 lived in the urban area.
== Name == The name of the city derives from Ulpiana, a nearby Dardanian and Roman era settlement, possibly due to either a Ul- to Li- shift seen elsewhere in Roman toponyms. Ulpiana was named in honor of Roman Emperor Marcus Ulpius Traianus. The neo-Latin form Lypenion occurs for the first time in a Byzantine text from 1018 AD . Albanian author Selami Pulaha states that the shift from Ulpiana to Lipjan is in accordance with early Albanian phonetic rules, and the city must therefore have been inhabited by Albanians. == History ==
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