Sefer, Preševo

Sefer (Serbian Cyrillic: Сефер; Albanian: Sefer) is a village located in the municipality of Preševo, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village had a population of 57 (100,0 %) people, all Albanians.^[2] The Albanians of Sefer are all Muslim, and speak in the Gheg dialect of the Albanian language.

Sefer Сефер (Serbian) Sefer (Albanian)
Village (Selo)
Sefer
Coordinates: 42°19′43″N 21°32′52″E
Country	Serbia
District	Pčinja District
Municipality	Preševo
Area [1]
• Total	6.90 km2 (2.66 sq mi)
Population  (2002)
• Total	57
• Density	8.3/km2 (21/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

History

Sefer belongs to the ethnographic region of Karadak, specifically the subregion of Llapushnica. Until the summer of 1947, the villages of Llapushnica—Sefer, Stanevce, Kurbalija, Depce,Bujić, Cerevajka, Pečeno, Maxherja, and Ranatovce—were part of the Municipality of Zhegër, located in the District of Gjilan and Kosovo. However, they were unexpectedly incorporated by Yugoslav authorities into the Municipality of Preševo, with which they had no cultural ties and only limited connections.^[3] The inhabitants are divided into four clans, all of which descend from the Berisha tribe.^[4]

Notable people

• Idriz Seferi, Albanian nationalist figure, his surname is from this village.