Settlement

Bitia e Poshtme

Municipality Shterpce

Bitia e Poshtme is in the municipality of Shterpce. An Ottoman register from 1455 documents the settlement under the form Bitia with 47 households. A later register from 1566 documents the settlement under the form Dolina Bitina with 18 households and 13 unmarried men.

The register from 1893 documents the settlement under the form Bitina-i Zir.

Source

Source & further reading

Principal source: Prof. Dr. Jusuf Osmani, Vendbanimet e Kosovës, Volume 9.

Source entry: BITIA E POSHTME

This page presents a selected part of a much more extensive published settlement study. For detailed archival references, family histories, local toponyms and the complete settlement record, consult the original volume.

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