Viça () or Viča () is a settlement in the Štrpce municipality in Kosovo. It has 280 inhabitants, of whom 140 are Albanians and 140 are Serbs.
Geography It is situated in the northeastern part of the Sharr Mountains, of which valley sides of the Viča river, a left tributary of the Lepenac.Srboljub Đ Stamenković, Географска енциклопедија населjа Србије: С-Ш, Volume 4, Географски факултет, 2002, p. 324 It lies 2 km north of the Prizren-Štrpce-Doganović regional road.
History In Medieval Serbia, the župa (province) of Siriniq (first mentioned in a charter of the 13th century, the second time in 1331, in a charter of Emperor Stephen Dušan) existed, covering the whole of modern Štrpce municipality, having two cities, Gradište (in Brezovica) and Zidinac (in Gotovuša), near Viča. Several remains of Byzantine forts exist in the region.
The village is part of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Raška and Prizren.
In 1894, the village had 40 houses, of which 35 were Serb, 4 Albanian, and one Islamized Serb.Branislav Đ Nušić, S Kosova na sinje more: beleške s puta kroz Arbanase 1894. godine, Čigoja štampa, 2005, p. 19
According to data from 1938, the village had the following kin families, with their number of houses, traditions (Krsna Slava, patron saint day), and history:Podaci „Naselja“ (dr. A. Urošević: Šarplaninska Župa Sirinić)Annuaire, Volume 1, Univerzitet vo Skopje. Prirodno-matematički oddel, Oddel, Jan 1, 1948, p. 174 Karadžić (5 houses, Slava of St. Nicholas). Velan (12 houses, St. Nicholas), settled from Kabash, in Metohija, at the end of the 18th century. Lukačić (12 houses, St. Nicholas) settled from Dragobilje, in Metohija, at the end of the 18th century. Part of their kin family, which stayed in Metohija, converted into Islam after their departure. Alilovit (13 houses), an Albanian family, settled from northern Albania in the 19th century, part of the Berisha fis.
+ Demographic history Ethnic group 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981 1991 Serbs 219 (50,23%) Albanians 217 (49,77%) Total 371 402 408 393 436 452
Infrastructure The rural settlement has primarily livestock farming (ratarsko-stočarstvo).
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