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LUKA (Dečane): remnants of a church and an old graveyard noted in the 19th c.
LUKARE (Priština): it is known where the sites of the ruins of a church and an old graveyard were located.
LUKINAJ, LUKINJE (Priština): ruins of a church (according ro tradition, of St. Luke) on the site called Crkveni Do (Church Valley).
LUŽANE (Podujevo): 1. medieval monastery of St. Nicholas, known from sources (unascertained); 2. Pasha’s mill, built with the stone remnants of the Serbian churches in the villages of Burince and Bradaš.
LJEŠANE (Peć): after expelling the Serbs in the 19th c., Hadzi Zeka, an albanian, erected a mosque in the village making use of the stone and marble columns taken from the vast church of the Holy Savior in the village of jošanica.
LJEVOŠA (Peć): 1. remnants of the church of St. Nicholas, on Tavor; 2. remnants of the church of St. George “in Ždrelnik” (before 1411); 3. remnants of the church of St. Demetrius (14th c.) with the traces of frescos featunng Cyrillic letters in Meta’s meadow; 4. remnants of the church of the Birth of St. john the Baptist on the site called Crkvine (Ruins of a Church); 5. rem- nants of the church of the Holy archangels in the village; 6. remnants of the church of St. Simeon the Myrrobletos; 7. mo- nastic bell-tower on the idvorac hill; 8. old graveyard above Savo’s meadow 9. remnants of the medieval fortress of Ždrelo, at the entrance to the Rugovska ravine; 10. Kuzmića Peštera (the Kuzmics’ Caves), a rock-cut dwelling west of the village; 11. according to tradition, the residence of a Patriarch of Peć was formerly situated in the hamlet of Krstelan.
LJUBENIC (Peć): old and new cemetery.
LJUBIĆEVO (Prizren): a written source from 1348 makes mention of the church of St. Nicholas (unascertained).
LJUBIŽDA (in the Middle ages Ljubižnja, Mališevo): 1. rem- nants of a former church in the center of the village in the lo- cality called “Kod Crkve” (by the Church); 2. remnants of a structure, probably religious, and several graves, on the Lju- biždanski peak.
LJUBIŽDA (in the Middle ages Ljubižnja, Prizren): 1. church of St. Nicholas from the 16th c., restored and painted in 1867; 2. ruins of the church of the Holy Savior (the surviving Royal Doors dating from the 16th c.) upon which apartment houses have been recently constructed; 3. ruins of the church of St. Paraskeve on the right bank of the Ljubiždanska river; 4. rem- nants of the church of St. john (the surviving Royal Doors from the 16th c.) on the hill above the village; 5. remnants of the church of St. Kyriake, near the village drinking fountain; 6. remnants of the church of St. Kyriake in the hamlet of St. john; 7. remnants of the church of St. Nicholas, in the hamlet of St. john; 8. remnants of the church of the Holy anargyroi, in the hamlet of Todosići; 9. new church of St. elijah, in the Serbian cemetery, erected on the remnants of an older church dedi- cated to the same saint; 10. remnants of the church of the Holy archangels, in the yard of the present-day mosque; 11. rem- nants of the church of St. George near the Cooperative center. LJUBIŽDA HAS (Prizren): a church existed, perhaps on the site called Grobovi (Tombs).
LJUBOVAC (in the Middle ages Ljubonce, Srbica): old and new cemetery of the expelled Serbs.
LJUBOVIŠTE (in the Middle ages Ljubovići Dragaš): ac- cording to tradition, the village had nine churches; the rem- nants of only one, allegedly monastic, church have survived on the site called Dub.
LJUBOVO (istok): 1. church of St. Basil of Ostrog built in 1939; 2. traces of an old graveyard, on the site called) Markov Cer (Marko’s Oak).
The Christian Shrines of Kosovo and Metohija from the 13th to the 20th century
Icons from Ljubižda, 14th century
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