Settlement

Nagllavë

Municipality Klina

Nagllavë lies about 7-8 km from Klina. It has a compact settlement pattern. The terrain is hilly. The area preserves traces of an older settlement and early local heritage.

Traces or local memory of older church sites are preserved in the village area. The settlement appears in written records from 1485, with further references in 1689, 1760. A register from 1485 records 23 households. The 20th century also brought emigration of residents to the United States and Croatia.

During the 1998–1999 war, the settlement experienced burning and destruction, the expulsion or displacement of residents.

Source

Source and further reading

Principal source: Prof. Dr. Jusuf Osmani, Settlements of Kosovo 3 — Klina, Prishtina, 2003.

Source entry: DASHAJ (Nagllavku)

This page presents a selected summary from the published study of the settlement. For complete archival references, family histories, microtoponymy and the full treatment, consult the original volume.