Pačarađa Пачарађа (Serbian) | |
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Village | |
  Pačarađa | |
| Coordinates:43°13′11″N21°05′53″E / 43.21972°N 21.09806°E /43.21972; 21.09806 | |
| Country |  Serbia |
| District | Toplica District |
| Municipality | Kuršumlija |
| Population (2002) | |
• Total | 41 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Pačarađa (Serbian Cyrillic: Пачарађа) is avillage in themunicipality ofKuršumlija,Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 41 people.[1]
Toponyms such asArbanaška andĐjake show an historic Albanian presence in the Toplica and Southern Morava regions. As in the widerToplica region,Kuršumlija also had an Albanian majority.[2][3]
The village Pačarađa known as Paqarada inAlbanian, was fully ethnicallyAlbanian and the village spoke theGheg dialect of Albanian.[citation needed] In 1877-78, after theSerbo-Ottoman Wars, these Albanians wereexpelled by Serbian forces in a way that today would be characterized asethnic cleansing.[4] According to the travels of M. Rakić, there were 127 villages in the Kuršumlija district, Pačarađa being one of these villages, with Kuršumlija being the only town. After the Serbo-Ottoman War in 1878, the town remained completely vacant, including the village of Pačarađa.[citation needed] The Albanian migrants from this region became known asMuhaxhirs and they mostly migrated to what is today modernKosovo, which was back then theVilayet of Kosovo of theOttoman Empire.
43°13′11″N21°05′53″E / 43.21972°N 21.09806°E /43.21972; 21.09806
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