Bregovina

Village in Toplica District, Serbia

Bregovina Бреговина (Serbian)
Village
43°04′55″N 21°34′05″E / 43.08194°N 21.56806°E / 43.08194; 21.56806
Country	Serbia
District	Toplica District
Municipality	Prokuplje
Population (2002)
• Total	70
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Bregovina (Serbian Cyrillic:Бреговина) is a village in the municipality of Prokuplje, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 70 people.^[1]

History

The Drengrad archaeological site located in the village, which includes the ruins of a 6th-century fort, is part of the Cultural Heritage of Serbia list, inscribed in 1982–83.^[2]

Toponyms such as Arbanaška and Đjake show an historic Albanian presence in the Toplica and Southern Morava regions that dates to the pre-medieval era.^[3]^{[verification needed]} In the 19th century, the Toplica region had an Albanian majority,^[4] as did the town of Prokuplje and the village of Bregovina. The village of Bregovina was completely ethnically Albanian, and the Albanians of the village spoke in the Gheg dialect of Albanian; they were also Muslims.^{[citation needed]}

During the 1877–1878 period, these Albanians from Bregovina were expelled by Serbian forces^[5]^{[page needed]} in a way that today would be characterized as ethnic cleansing.^[6] It is estimated that around 11,437 Albanians left their homes in 119 villages in the Prokuplje district with the arrival of the Serbian army, including the village of Bregovina.^[7] The Albanian migrants from this region became known as Muhaxhirs and they mostly migrated to what is today modern Kosovo, which was back then the Vilayet of Kosovo of the Ottoman Empire.

References

^ Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i Stanova 2002. Knjiga 1: Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost po naseljima. Republika Srbija, Republički zavod za statistiku Beograd 2003. ISBN 86-84433-00-9
^ "Споменици културе у Србији".
^ Geniş, Şerife; Maynard, Kelly Lynne (July 2009). "Formation of a Diasporic Community: The History of Migration and Resettlement of Muslim Albanians in the Black Sea Region of Turkey". Middle Eastern Studies. 45 (4): 553–569. doi:10.1080/00263200903009619. ISSN 0026-3206.
^ Bataković, Dušan T. (2007). Kosovo and Metohija: Living in the Enclave. Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for Balkan Studies. p. 35. ISBN 978-86-7179-052-9.
^ Blumi, Isa (2013-09-12). Ottoman Refugees, 1878-1939: Migration in a Post-Imperial World. A&C Black. ISBN 978-1-4725-1538-4.
^ Müller, Dietmar (2009-01-01). "Orientalism and Nation: Jews and Muslims as Alterity in Southeastern Europe in the Age of Nation-States, 1878–1941". East Central Europe. 36 (1): 63–99. doi:10.1163/187633009X411485. ISSN 1876-3308.
^ Jagodić, Miloš (1998-12-01). "The Emigration of Muslims from the New Serbian Regions 1877/1878". Balkanologie. Revue d'études pluridisciplinaires. 2 (2). doi:10.4000/balkanologie.265. ISSN 1279-7952.