Runik () is a village in the Skenderaj municipality of Kosovo. It is located in the Drenica region and has 1,137 inhabitants as of 2024. The village has a football club, KF Përparimi Runik. Runik is the site of an important Neolithic settlement in Kosovo and the wider region. The excavated finds at the site include a baked-clay ocarina, one of the oldest musical instruments which have been in the Balkans and the oldest in Kosovo.
Runik () is a village in the Skenderaj municipality of Kosovo. It is located in the Drenica region and has 1,137 inhabitants as of 2024. The village has a football club, KF Përparimi Runik. Runik is the site of an important Neolithic settlement in Kosovo and the wider region. The excavated finds at the site include a baked-clay ocarina, one of the oldest musical instruments which have been in the Balkans and the oldest in Kosovo.
== History == In the Ottoman defters of 1455 and 1485 a village is mentioned with the name Runik and in 1485 the village had 31 households Names such as 'Radinha Arbanas', 'Nikolla, son of Arbanas' and 'Stepan, son of Lleshi' indicates an Albanian presence. left|thumb|191x191px|The Neolithic Runik Ocarina is the oldest musical instrument found in Kosovo to date. It is located the Drenica region, about southwest of Mitrovica and northwest of Skenderaj (near the Skenderaj-Istog road). The site, one of the most prominent Neolithic sites in Kosovo to date, contains artefacts from the Starcevo, Cardial and Vinca cultures. As of 2020, the two oldest sites of Starcevo are Crkvina near Miokovci, runik Kosovo which are statistically indistinguishable to each other and have been dated to ca. 6238 BCE (6362-6098 BCE at 95% CI) and ca. 6185 BCE (6325–6088 BCE at 95% Cl) respectively.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).