Gotovuša (, ) is a settlement in the Štrpce municipality in Kosovo. It is inhabited by ethnic Serbs, according to the 2024 census, it had 892 inhabitants. The village houses two churches, protected by the Republic of Kosovo.
Geography It is situated in the northeastern part of the Šar Mountains, and in the drainage basin of the Lepenac river.
History In Medieval Serbia, the župa (province) of Sirinić (first mentioned 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). Several remains of Byzantine forts exist in the region.
Gotovuša is mentioned for the first time in an Ottoman defter (tax register) of 1455, as a great village with 64 houses, and an Orthodox priest. The Church of Saint Nicholas was built here in the mid-16th-century, and is currently under protection of the Republic of Serbia as part of the Monuments of Culture of Exceptional Importance (Cultural Heritage of Serbia-list, SK 1422), in the Churches of Sirinićka župa-group.SANU, National Center for Digitization, Cultural Monuments in Serbia: Crkva Sv. NikoleŠuput 1991, p. 59 The second church in Gotovuša is dedicated to the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos (Uspenja Presvete Bogorodice), built in 1557.SANU, National Center for Digitization, Cultural Monuments in Serbia: Crkva Sv. Bogorodice Above the village, near the old fort of Zidinac, there are remains of several older churches. The village is part of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Raška and Prizren.
In 1894, the village had 87 houses, all ethnic Serb.Branislav Đ Nušić, S Kosova na sinje more: beleške s puta kroz Arbanase 1894. godine, Čigoja štampa, 2005, p. 18
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 Bugarkin (4 houses, Slava of Sv. Petka). A male ancestor married a Bulgarian wife on pečalba (seasonal migrational work), hence their surname (meaning "of the [female] Bulgarian"). Kosmoćević (18 houses, Sv. Petka). Đurđević and Kućanović (18 houses, Sv. Petka). Kevkić (25 houses) and Toroćev (23 houses), both with the Slava of Sv. Nikole, settled in the end of the 18th century from the village of Seroja, near Shkodër. The Kevkić family heads were, in chronological manner starting from the nearest: Dobrosav (aged 90 in 1938), Simeon, Milenko, Stevan. Projčević (2 houses, Sv. Nikole), settled from Polog. Before their arrival, they had the Slava of Sv. Arhanđela, but as they were the only ones in the village with that Slava, and poor, they could not continue with having guests, so they changed their Slava to Sv. Nikole, which some other families had as Slava. Stojčević (8 houses, Sv. Arhanđeo), also settled from Polog. Čantrić (24 houses, Sv. Petka), settled from Semanje near Kaçanik around 1830. They hail from Burnik near Ferizaj.
Demographics + Demographic history Ethnic group 1948 1953 1961 1971 19811981 Census, Kosovo 199120112024 Serbs 971 (98,58%) 445 (100%)878 (98,46%)) Others 14 (1,42%) 14 (1,57%) Total 697 779 839 906 985 986445892 Serbs boycott 2011. census
Infrastructure The settlement is in the territory of a cadastre of 1611 hectares. The village has a primary school, "Рајко Урошевић".Republic of Serbia, Službeni glasnik Republike Srbije, Issues 87–99, Jan 1, 2004
References
Marica Šuput, Spomenici srpskog crkvenog graditeljstva, XVI-XVII vek, Institut za istoriju umetnosti, Filozofski fakultet, 1991
External links Bele poklade, Gotovusa; feast in Serbian Orthodox pre-Easter tradition (Video)