Zvečan
Zvečan or Zveçan is a town and municipality located in the Mitrovica District in Kosovo. As of 2015, it has a population of 16,650 inhabitants. It covers an area of 122 km2, and consists of a town and 35 villages.Photo: Радосав Стојановић, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 1,300 residents
- Description: town in Kosovo
- Also known as: “Zaccan” and “Zvecan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Zvečan Fortress and Zvečan railway station.
Zvečan Fortress
Castle
Photo: Andrija.b, CC BY 3.0 rs.
The Fortress of Zvečan, also known as Zvečan/Zveçan medieval fortress and Fortress of Mitrovica, located in the northwest of the city of North Mitrovica, in Kosovo, is an enormous castle and one of the oldest fortresses in Southeastern Europe.
Miners‘ Monument
Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Monument to the Serbian and Albanian Partisans honors the Albanian and Serbian partisans from the Republic of Kosovo who died in World War II in Yugoslavia from 1941–1945.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zveçan i Vogël and Suhodolli i Epërm.
Suhodolli i Epërm
Village
Suhodoll i Epërm or Gornji Suvi Do is a village in the municipality of North Mitrovica in the District of Mitrovica, Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, it has 224 inhabitants, all of whom are Albanians.
Suhodoll i Poshtëm
Village
Suhodoll i Poshtëm or Donji Suvi Do is a village in the municipality of North Mitrovica in the District of Mitrovica, Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, it has 789 inhabitants, of whom 787 are Albanians. Suhodoll i Poshtëm is situated 2½ km south of Zvečan.
Zvečan
- Category: locality
- Location: Komuna e Zveçanit, Mitrovica District, Kosovo, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.90919° or 42° 54′ 33″ northLongitude
20.83893° or 20° 50′ 20″ eastPopulation
1,300Elevation
544 metres (1,785 feet)Open location code
8GJ2WR5Q+MHOpenStreetMap ID
node 1907401314OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
783770Wikidata ID
Q62172
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Urdu—“Zvečan” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Zvecan”
- Albanian: “Zveçan”
- Albanian: “Zveçani”
- Albanian: “Zveqan”
- Arabic: “زويجان”
- Arabic: “زُوَيْجَان”
- Asturian: “Zvečan”
- Catalan: “Zvečan”
- Cebuano: “Zvečan”
- Chinese: “兹韦钱”
- Chinese: “茲韋錢”
- Croatian: “Zvečan”
- Czech: “Zvečan”
- Dutch: “Zvecan”
- Dutch: “Zvečan”
- Dutch: “Zveçan”
- Finnish: “Zvecan”
- Finnish: “Zvečan”
- Finnish: “Zveçani”
- French: “Zvecan”
- French: “Zvečan”
- French: “Zveçan”
- French: “Zveqan”
- German: “Zvecan”
- German: “Zvečan”
- German: “Zveçan”
- Greek: “Ζβέτσαν”
- Indonesian: “Zvečan”
- Italian: “Zvečan”
- Italian: “Zveçan”
- Italian: “Zveçani”
- Japanese: “ズヴェチャン”
- Lithuanian: “Zvečanas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zvečan”
- Norwegian: “Zvečan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Zvečan”
- Persian: “زوچان”
- Polish: “Zvečan”
- Polish: “Zveçani”
- Portuguese: “Zvečan”
- Romanian: “Zvecan”
- Romanian: “Zvečan”
- Romanian: “Zveçan”
- Russian: “Звечан”
- Scots: “Zvecan”
- Scots: “Zvečan”
- Serbian: “Zvecan”
- Serbian: “Zvečan”
- Serbian: “Звечан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zvecan”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zvečan”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zveqan”
- Slovenian: “Zvečan”
- Spanish: “Zvecan”
- Spanish: “Zvečan”
- Swedish: “Zveçan”
- Turkish: “İzveçan”
- Turkish: “Zveçan”
- Ukrainian: “Звечан”
- Urdu: “زویݘان”
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