Novak is a village in Prizren, Kosovo. Novak is situated nearby to the villages Caparc and Smać.
Novak
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Village | |
  Novak Location in Kosovo | |
| Coordinates: 42°18′06″N 20°45′21″E / 42.30160693061293°N 20.755963274415816°E | |
| Location |  Kosovo |
| District | Prizren |
| Municipality | Prizren |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 88 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Novak was mentioned as a Catholic Albanian village in the 1348 Stefan Dusan chrysobull by the name of Novaci along with eight other Catholic Albanian villages within the area of Prizren.[2][3][4][5]
The village was also mentioned in the Ottoman defters of the 16th century.[6]
References
edit- ^ 2011 Kosovo Census results
- ^ Popullsia Shqiptare e Kosoves Gjate Shekujve - Selami Pulaha p. 16 ' Shqiptaret ishin te pranishem ne shek. XIV ne zonat e Prizrenit dhe te Shkupit. Ne krisobulen e car Stefan Dushanit dhene Manastirit te shen Mihailit dhe te Gavrilit (1348-1353) ne Prizren behet fjale per pranine e shqiptareve ne Rrafshin e Dukagjinit, ne afersi te Prizrenit dhe te fshatrave te Drenices. Ne te deshmohet per ekzistencen e nente katundeve blegtorale shqiptare ne afersite e Prizrenit te njohura me emrin Gjinovci (Gjinajt), Magjerci, Bjelloglavci, Flokovci (Flokajt), Crnca, Caparci, Gjonovci (Gjonajt), Shpinadinci(Shpinajt), Novaci.'
- ^ Malcolm, Noel (1999). Kosovo : a short history. And Dusan's chrysobull of 1348 for the Monastery of the Holy Archangels in Prizren mentions a total of nine Albanian katuns
- ^ The Case for Kosova: Passage to Independence Alain Ducellier p. 31: 'Did Serb domination cause the old Illyro-Albanian population to disappear? Serb texts prove exactly the opposite: in 1348, a donation made by the grand Czar Stepan IX Dusan to the Monastery of St.Michael and Gabriel to Prizren shows that there were at least nine villages surrounding the city qualified as Albanian (Arbanas).'
- ^ Stojan Novakovic, Zakonski: Spomenici Srpskish Drzava Srednjega Veka (Beograd, 1912), pp. 682-701
- ^ Popullsia Shqiptare e Kosoves Gjate Shejuve p. 246