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BRABONIĆ (K. Mitrovica): old ruins of a former church. BRADAŠ (Podujevo): three churches formerly existed (whose stone remains were carried off in the 19th and 20th c.); the rem- nants of one have survived.
BRAINA (Podujevo): according to histoncal sources the vil- lage had: 1. church of the Mother of God amolyntos Brain- assa—of Braina (14th c.); 2. church of St. Nicholas (14th c.); 3. church of St. Peter (14th c.). The remnants of two churches and two old graveyards ha ve been uncovered in the village area. BRASALJCE (Gnjilane) 1. ruins of a former church in the hamlet of Barice; 2. ruins of a former church in the hamlet of Šašivar.
BRATILOVCE (Kriva Reka near Novo Brdo): 1. remnants of an old church on the site called Crkvište (ruins of a church) in the location named Rupište; 2. demolished old church on the site called Prisoje in Rupište.
BRATOTIN (Orahovac): old church on the Glavica hill; old and present-day Serbian cemetery, north of the village. BRECE (in the Middle ages Brezovica, Podujevo): ruins of an old church in the Haimović (Halilović) mahala.
BRESJE (in the Middle ages Brestije, Priština): church of St. Catherine, demolished in the 19th c. by jašar-Paša Džanić, re- stored in the 20th c.
BRESNICA (K. Mitrovica): traces of the ruins of a church (village priest mentioned as early as the 15th c.), old graveyard on the hillock above the village; remnants of another old grave- yard in the hamlet of alin Do.
BRESTOVAC (Orahovac): microtoponym relating to the old graveyard.
BRESTOVIK (Peć): old graveyard on the site also occupied by the remnants of a church (village priest mentioned in the 15th c.).
BREZNA (Dragaš): according to legend, the church of St. john occupied the site of the present-day mosque (confirmed by the toponym Crkveni Do—Church Valley).
BRNJAČA (in the Middle ages Brnjašča, Orahovac): ruins of the church of St. Kyriake (mentioned in a source from 1348) embellished with stone reliefs in the 16th c. and repeatedly restored.
BRNJAK: 1. foundations of several structures (probably be- longing to Queen Helen of anjou palace, known only from
Brnjača, St. Kyriake (Sveta Nedelja) Church
written sources) discovered near the confluence of the Oklach stream into the Brnjička river; 2. medieval cemetery in the hamlet of Bašče; 3. remnants of an old church near the grave- yard in the hamlet of Dublje; 4. ruins of a church and an old graveyard on the site called Krnje; 5. remnants of an old church called Crkvas in the hamlet of Presjeke; 6. small dilapidated church in the hamlet of Staro Guvno; 7. traces of a graveyard in the hamlet of Usce on the site where, according to tradi- tion, a church stood once.
BROĆNA (in the Middle ages Brodna, Srbica): old Serbian graveyard and the site called Crkvište (i.e. ruins of a church) (village priest referred to in the 15th c.); according to legend, the village mosque was erected on the site formerly occupied by a church.
BROD (Dragaš): 1. church of St. Demetrius (unascertained); 2. church of St. Panteleimon and an old graveyard on the Pan- telejci hill; 3. church of St. Nicholas (completely destroyed in the 20th c.); 4. old Christian cemetery (situated on the site of the present-day burrial ground for cattle).
BROD (Uroševac): remnants of the church of St. Peter, near the village, and of an old graveyard, in the village. BRODOSAVCE (Dragaš): 1. remnants of a larger church stood above the village in the 19th c.; 2. remnants of the small medi- eval fortress of Zinovo in the area of the same name.
BRUS (Lipljan): a church existed in the hamlet of Velih Brus very old jewish cemetery located near the village. BRUSNIK (Vučitrn): remnants of an old church on the site called Marina Voda.
BRUT (Dragaš): old graveyard with a demolished church on the site called Vakuf.
BRVENIK (Podujevo): remnants of the medieval fortress of Brvenik with the foundations of buildings and outer walls (a church situated in the center).
BRZANCE (Leposavić): old cemetery.
BUBE (in Kolašin upon the ibar): 1. remnants of an old church in the village graveyard; 2. remnants of two old probably ec- cleciastical, buildings on the hill called Bupski Šiljak. BUBLJE (Mališevo): Budisavci monastery with the church of the Transfiguration (14th c.), the church restored and frescoed in 1568, to the wish of the Patriarch Makarije Sokolović.
The Christian Shrines of Kosovo and Metohija from the 13th to the 20th century
Brnjača, St. Kyriake, St. George kills the dragon, relief (now in the National Museum, Belgrade)
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