Klina

Klina stands in a landscape with settlement evidence extending from prehistory onward. The municipal history identifies archaeological traces at Përçevë, Gllarevë, Dersnik, Dollc, Klinafc and other localities, including Illyrian burial mounds and material remains from different periods. This evidence places the area within the wider Dardanian landscape and shows that habitation was dispersed across the plain and nearby hills.

Roman-period records add a more specific reference: Dersnik is identified as a municipal centre of the Dardanian community, while the Byzantine period is represented by the remains of a church at Pashkaj. Medieval sources also record Dollc under an earlier name. Ottoman records from 1455 describe Dollc as the centre of a nahije with nineteen villages. These archaeological and written layers give Klina a history of connected settlements rather than a single urban origin.