Dashinoc

Dashinoc (Serbian Cyrillic: Дашиновац; Albanian: Dashinoc) is a village in the Deçan Municipality in western Kosovo.

Dashinoc Dashinoc (Albanian) Дашиновац/Dašinovac (Serbian)
Village
Dashinoc Location in Kosovo
Coordinates: 42°32′10″N 20°23′53″E
Location	Kosovo
District	Peja
Municipality	Deçan
Population  (2024)[1]
• Total	244
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

History

Throughout 1998, the village and surrounding area was the scene of fighting between the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and Yugoslav security forces during the Kosovo War.^[2] From March 1998, the KLA mounted a campaign to capture the village of Dashinoc and the surrounding area with the intent of driving out local Serbs.^[2] On 22 April 1998, Dashinoc was captured by the KLA with many of the local Serbs fleeing amid reports of unexplained disappearances.^[3] Three Serbs remained in the village and on 16 September 1998, their bodies were discovered at Lake Radonjić, murdered as part of the Lake Radonjić massacre.^[4]

Demographics

The village is exclusively inhabited by Albanians.^[5]