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Banjska (village)

Banjska (Serbian Cyrillic: Бањска; Albanian: Banjskë or Bajë e Mitrovicës) is a village located in Zvečan in northern Kosovo. It has a population of 465 inhabitants as of 2011.

Before 1918, Banjska had a Muslim Albanian majority. In 1891, 60 houses were inhabited by Albanians and 73 houses in 1903. They migrated to the city of Mitrovica or Turkey in Evrencik after 1918. After 1923, Serbs settled in the village.

The Banjska monastery is nearby.

In 1999 a RTV transmitter was damaged.

During the Kosovan parliamentary election, 2010, a polling station was surrounded by an angry mob and access to the village was blocked.

On 24 September 2023, an armed group of about 30 Serb men attacked Kosovo Police after blockading the village, shooting and killing one officer and injuring another, before barricading themselves in the Banjska monastery. Three Serb militants were killed by Kosovo Police. The attack was classified as a terrorist attack by Kosovo and the European Union.

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