Manastirica, Prizren

Manastirica (Serbian Cyrillic: Манастирица; Albanian: Manastiricë; Bosnian: Manastirica) is a village in the Prizren Municipality in southern Kosovo, close to the border between Kosovo and North Macedonia.

Manastirica Manastiricë (Albanian) Манастирица/Manastirica (Serbian)
Village
Manastirica Location in Kosovo
Coordinates: 42°08′06″N 20°48′19″E
Location	Kosovo
District	Prizren
Municipality	Prizren
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	1,107
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

History

The village of Manastirica was settled by construction workers who took part in the construction of the Visoki Dečani Monastery in the early 1300s. As a sign of gratitude for their work, these workers were gifted the village of Manastirica to settle by the Serbian king Stefan Dečanski following completion of the build.^[2]

Demographics

The village is almost exclusively inhabited by Bosniaks.^[3]