Dumnicë e Poshtme, Podujevo

According to the 1991 census, the village had 2,951 inhabitants.{{cite book|author=Srboljub Đ Stamenković|title=Географска енциклопедија насеља Србије: М-Р|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i3EtAQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Универзитет у Београду. Географски факултет|isbn=978-86-82657-15-6|page=266}} The rural settlement was suburban-agricultural (29,7% agrarian inhabitants), of the half-scattered type, on 620–740 m height at the valley sides of the Kopaonik by the Dubnica river, left tributary of Lab, on both sides of the Podujevo-Kuršumlija road, 5 km northeast from Podujevo. The cadastral area is 2051 hectares.

The settlement is divided into several mahala (quarters), such as Tahirova, Tiova, Šaljova, Marino brdo, Gornja, Donja, etc. In 1965 the mahalas were Čukića, Imerovića, Suljića and Taovića, named after the Albanian families, and the village was of the scattered type.{{cite book|title=Serbian ethnographic series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pIriAAAAMAAJ|year=1965|publisher=Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti.|quote=ДОЊА ДУБНИЦА. — Село је на подножју Копаоника у доњем делу долине Дубничке реке. Село је разбијеног типа. Дели се на Чукића, Имеровића, Суљића и Таовића махалу, чији су називи по арбанашким ро- довима. Удаљења ...}}

The village is one of the medieval villages which had an Orthodox church. It was mentioned in the 1455 defter as Donja Dubnica (Доња Дубница) with 9 houses. Priest Kuzma served in the village.{{cite book|author=Dimitrije M. Kalezić|title=A - Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2yzZAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Savremena administracija|page=572}} In the second half of the 18th century it was settled by Albanians of the Berisha fis from northern Albania. The native Serbian population was subsequently Albanianized (i.e. one of the families, the Zec, became Žjec-Zhjeqi/Zhjeci). After the Treaty of Berlin (1878), Albanian mujahirs from the Kuršumlija region settled the village (from Rača, Matarova, Vrševac, Ravni Šort, Dabinovac, Tijovac, and other villages). In 1914, Donja Dubnica and neighbouring Gornja Dubnica together had 1101 inhabitants, while in 1921, Donja Dubnica had 185 households and 1100 inhabitants. After the Balkan Wars, in 1913–14, 32 households of Serbs from Aleksandrovačka Župa, Ibarski Kolašin, Jablanica and Kosanica, and 8 households of Montenegrins settled the village. With World War I they left the village, then returned between 1921 and 1926 with 37 Serb households from Lika, Toplica, and other regions. Albanian kachaks in the village were disarmed by the Yugoslav authorities by 1924.{{cite book|author=Dragi Maliković|title=Kačački pokret na Kosovu i Metohiji: 1918-1924|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cV8MAQAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Institut za srpsku kulturu|quote=У Срезу лабском разоружана су била следећа села: Горња и Доња Дубница, Преполац, Лауша, Бајчина, Добри ...}} In 1990, unidentified ethnic Albanians attacked the Serbs in the village.{{cite book|author=Atanasije Jevtić|title=Stradanja Srba na Kosovu i Metohiji od 1941. do 1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wJlIAQAAIAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Jedinstvo|page=375}} In 1961, 43,6% were Serb/Montenegrins; in 1981 9,3% – the village is today Albanian, as the non-Albanian population was pressured to leave during the Kosovo War, in mid-1999.

The village has a secondary school, a mosque, an agricultural apothecary "Dubnica" (6 workers), and other businesses.

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