Polac
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| subdivision_name1 = Mitrovicë
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| subdivision_name2 = Skënderaj
| established_title = First mention
| established_date = 1330
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Polac or ({{lang-sr-Cyrl|Пољанце}}; sometimes transliterated as Poljance) is a village in Kosovo. The village is exclusively inhabited by ethnic Albanians; in the 2011 census, it had 2701 inhabitants.
Geography
It lies in the Drenica region, at the source of the Vrbica river, a left confluence of the Drenica river.Stamenković 2002, p. 81 It lies on both sides of the regional Skenderaj-Glogavac road, 4–7 km southeast of Skenderaj. It is 640–680 m over sea level. The rural settlement lies on a cadastral area with the a total of 2195 hectares (K.O. Staro Poljance 694, K.O. Novo Poljance 767, K.O. Kraljica 734 ha).
Poljance includes two major physiognomic parts: Staro Poljance (Džamijska, Gruda, Koca, Veljić and Zonić Mahala) and Novo Poljance, of which the latter was administratively joined into the present settlement in 1975. Novo Poljance was an independent village before, situated to the east, established after World War I, with Serb and Montenegrin settlers from the vicinity of Danilovgrad, Nikšić, Mrkonjić Grad, Bosanska Krupa, among others.
History
= Middle Ages =
{{see also|Serbia in the Middle Ages}}
The 1330 Dečani chrysobulls of Serbian King Stephen Uroš III (r. 1322–1331) mention the great village of "Strelac", and several surrounding villages: Čigotovo (Čikatovo), Vrbovec, Poljance, Glabotino and Kudrino (Kudrin).П. Ивић – М. Грковић, ДХ I (140), ДХ II (7–8), ДХ III (210–270); Задужбине Косова, 329.Božanić 2009, pp. 14, 16 Toponomastic study shows that Poljance bordered Strelac on the northeast.
= World War II =
{{see also|World War II in Yugoslavia}}
6 soldiers, hailing from Poljance, of the "Boro Bukmirović" and "Razim Sadiku" battalions of the First Macedonian-Kosovan National liberation Brigade (Yugoslav Partisans) fell in January and February 1945.[https://znaci.org/00001/185_15.pdf Списак бораца косовско метохијских батаљона]
= Kosovo War =
{{main|Kosovo War}}
According to the Serbian newspaper Pravda in January in February 1997, Jonuz Veliqi, an Albanian official working for the state structures of the Republic of Serbia, was nearly killed by during attacks of the Albanian paramilitaries.Pravda, 19. децембар 2010. [http://www.pravda.rs/2010/12/19/milosevic-blago-prekorio-srbe/ Милошевић благо прекорио Србе] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120913121817/http://www.pravda.rs/2010/12/19/milosevic-blago-prekorio-srbe/ |date=2012-09-13 }} On August 3, 1998, a civilian worker for the Serbian Interior Ministry was wounded by an automatic weapon.[http://nointervention.com/archive/Yugoslavia/www.serbia-info.com/news/1999-03/10/9587.html Members of the Ministry of the Interior – Victims of Albanian Terrorism in 1998] Poljance was in the hands of the Kosovo Liberation Army until March 22, 1999, when Serbian police forces launched an offensive into Drenica.NY Times, [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/21/world/fears-deepens-as-monitors-quit-kosovo.html Fears Deepens as Monitors Quit Kosovo]NY Times, [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/22/world/conflict-balkans-kosovo-serbs-burn-birthplace-albanians-revolt.html?pagewanted=all Serbs Burn the Birthplace Of the Albanians' Revolt] After March 23, 1999, several abducted ethnic Serbs were held prisoners in an old mine near a brick factory in Poljance by Albanians.Danas, Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia, November 3, 1999, [http://www.ex-yupress.com/danas/danas14.html Ethnic Albanian from Kosmet Idriz Medit Offered to Exchange 10 Serbs for his Son], by Z. RadovanovicIWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, NO. 92, November 12, 1999, [http://www.bndlg.de/~wplarre/FLORA-BROVINA-991105.htm SERBIAN JUSTICE ON TRIAL], By Laura Rozen
Demographics
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! style="width: 3em;" | 1948 ! style="width: 3em;" | 1953 ! style="width: 3em;" | 1961 ! style="width: 3em;" | 1971 ! style="width: 3em;" | 1981[http://pop-stat.mashke.org/kosovo-ethnic-loc1981.htm 1981 Census, Kosovo] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317145422/http://pop-stat.mashke.org/kosovo-ethnic-loc1981.htm |date=2012-03-17 }} (Preliminary) ! style="width: 3em;" | 1991 ! style="width: 3em;" | 2011 |
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| Albanians
| | | | | 2358 | | 2695 |
| Total[http://pop-stat.mashke.org/kosovo-census.htm Kosovo censuses 1948–1991]
! 1077 ! 1304 ! 1408 ! 1675 ! 2358 ! 2827 ! 2701 |
Notes
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References
- Božanić, S. 2009, "O zemljišnim međama srpskog srednjovekovnog sela", Istraživanja, no. 20, pp. [http://scindeks-clanci.nb.rs/data/pdf/0350-2112/2009/0350-21120920047B.pdf 47–64]{{Dead link|date=May 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.
- Srboljub Đ Stamenković, Географска енциклопедија населjа Србије: С-Ш, [https://books.google.com/books?id=C3ItAQAAIAAJ Volume 4], Географски факултет, 2002, p. 81: "Пољанце"
{{Settlements in Srbica}}