Laplje Selo (Serbian Cyrillic: Лапље Село, Albanian: Llapllaselle) is a village in the Gračanica municipality of Kosovo.[2] Laplje Selo was part of the Pristina municipality before the Gračanica municipality was created.
Laplje Selo | |
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  Laplje Selo  Laplje Selo | |
| Coordinates: 42°35′48″N 21°08′27″E / 42.59667°N 21.14083°E | |
| Location |  Kosovo |
| District | Pristina |
| Municipality | Gračanica |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 892 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
It is a Serb enclave situated south of Čaglavica, and has a supermajority of ethnic Serbs. During the Kosovo War, Serbs were displaced, after more than a decade, sixteen families returned to their village, on February 6, 2010.[3] That number has since increased to just over 20 families.[4]
Various problems, some of them related to anti-Serb sentiment, persist for returnees. There is no running water,[4] and harassment takes place, such as cemetery desecration.[5][6]
Demography
| Ethnic Composition | |||||||||||||
| Year | Serbs | % | Romani | % | others | % | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 988 | 94.73% | 43 | 4.12% | 12 | 1.15% | 1043 | ||||||
| 1971 | 1011 | 94.31% | 58 | 5.41% | 3 | 0.30% | 1072 | ||||||
| 1981 | 1142 | 94.46% | 58 | 4.80% | 9 | 0.74% | 1209 | ||||||
| 2024 | 1000 | 70.00% | 50 | 2.00% | 23 | 1.66% | 1383 | ||||||