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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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Settlement.name: Lipjan
Settlement.named_for: Ulpiana
Settlement.settlement_type: City and municipality
Settlement.image_flag: Flag of Lipjan.png
Settlement.image_blank_emblem: Stema e Komunës Lipjan.svg
Settlement.blank_emblem_type: Emblem
Settlement.pushpin_map: Kosovo#Europe
Settlement.pushpin_relief: 1
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Kosovo
Settlement.subdivision_type1: District
Settlement.subdivision_name1: District of Pristina
Settlement.leader_title: Mayor
Settlement.leader_party: LDK
Settlement.leader_name: Imri Ahmeti
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric
Settlement.population_as_of: 2024
Settlement.population_urban: 13092

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Name
History
Early Period
Middle Ages
Ottoman Era
Kosovo War and Aftermath
Geography
Demographics
Ethnic groups
Religions
Municipality
See also
References
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== 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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