Klina

in Klina

KLINA - located in the central area of Kosovo and Metohija, this city is also the center of the municipality of the same name. This town is located at the confluence of the Beli Drim and Klina rivers. It is some 65 km away from Pristina and is on the way to Peja and then Montenegro. According to the charter from 1200-1202. In 2008, King Stefan Prvovenčani gave Klina to the Hilandar monastery, together with its mill, the surrounding Metohija villages and the Kninec square. During the reign of King Uroš I, this area was again donated to the monastery of St. Peter and Paul in Lima, but after that it was returned to Hilandar by the charters of Emperor Dušan and King Milutin. When the census of the Branković area was carried out in 1455, Klina was listed as a town containing 66 Serbian homes, including a certain priest Božidar, whose presence on the list meant that this - then only a settlement - already had its own church in that period. Already at the time of the next census conducted by the Turks. In 1485, only 20 homes were recorded in the place, including the house of Pope Radonje. Temple of St. Apostle and Evangelist Mark was built on a nearby hill, on the foundations of a former church from the medieval period that was dedicated to St. To the Most Pure Mother of God.