Trimasi (Kërnica) lies in the Llapusha region, about 5–6 km northeast of Klina. Roof tiles, bricks, stone foundations and old burial grounds found at Broçishtë point to earlier habitation. An Ottoman register of the Sanjak of Shkodra from 1485 records the settlement as Krninça with 28 households; the forms recorded in the yearbooks of 1893, 1896 and 1900 include Kranica.
After the expulsions of Albanians from the Sanjak of Niš in 1877–1878, Albanian muhajir brotherhoods also settled here. During the interwar period, 24 Serbian and Montenegrin colonist families were settled in the village; most later moved away after 1965.
Before the 1998–1999 war, Trimasi had 125 families with 938 residents and one Serbian family. Serbian forces destroyed 135 residential structures, burned the school together with its records and library, and destroyed the clinic. Twenty-one residents were killed, including two KLA fighters. The population was expelled toward Albania, while some residents remained in the surrounding mountains.
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Source and further reading
Principal source: Prof. Dr. Jusuf Osmani, Settlements of Kosovo 3 — Klina, Prishtina, 2003.
Source entry: TRIMASI (Kerrnica)
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.