Qëndresa (Gllareva) lies about 13 km southeast of Klina. It has a compact settlement pattern. Recorded traces around the settlement include pottery fragments, old burial grounds, necropolis sites, bridge remains, evidence of earlier habitation and use of the area.
Some of these traces are associated with the Illyrian-Dardanian and Bronze Age periods. The settlement appears in written records from 1455, with further references in 1566, 1582. A register from 1455 records 14 households. After the expulsions of Albanians from the Sanjak of Niš in 1877–1878, Albanian muhajir families also settled here.
The 20th century also brought emigration of residents to Turkey and Albania. During the interwar period, around 1926, 13 Serbian or Montenegrin colonist families were settled here. In 1919, the settlement suffered burning, looting or killings during actions by Serbian forces. During the 1998–1999 war, Serbian forces caused burning and destruction, the killing of 19 residents, the expulsion or displacement of residents.
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Source and further reading
Principal source: Prof. Dr. Jusuf Osmani, Settlements of Kosovo 3 — Klina, Prishtina, 2003.
Source entry: QËNDRESA (Gllareva)
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.