Shtime
town in Kosovo
Shtime (Albanian definite form: Shtimja) or Štimlje (Serbian Cyrillic: Штимље), is a town and municipality located in the Ferizaj District of Kosovo. According to the 2024 census, the town of Shtime has 7,487 inhabitants, while the municipality has 24,308 inhabitants. The territory of the municipality covers an area of 134 km2 (52 sq mi).
History
Since the end of the 13th century Shtime was one of four courts of the King of Serbia in Nerodimlje župa. Its position at that time was on the northern bank of Svrčin Lake.
After the mass expulsion of the Albanians from the former Sanjak of Niş by the Principality of Serbia, many Muhaxhir refugee families settled in Shtime and its surroundings. During the Yugoslav colonisation of Kosovo, 95 Serbo-Montenegrin colonist families were settled in Shtime and the surrounding villages by the Yugoslav government. During World War II, Albanians looted and demolished the Serbian church in the municipality.
The municipality of Shtime was established in 1988 by settlements that were previously part of the municipalities of Ferizaj and Lipjan. It was established with a total of 23 settlements: 19 from Ferizaj and 4 from Lipjan.
The public source identifies “Shtime” as town in Kosovo. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Shtime, town and Kosovo.
Why this record matters
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q994737. VIAF identifies the subject as 249418087. Authority coordinates are 42.433, 21.033. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024 and 1988.
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This entry incorporates text from “Shtime” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.