Lab River

Lab
Llap
Lab; Llap
	The Lab river in Podujeve
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Kopaonik mountain, Kosovo
Mouth
• location	Sitnica river, south of Vučitrn, Kosovo
• coordinates	42°45′19″N 21°01′02″E / 42.7553°N 21.0172°ECoordinates: 42°45′19″N 21°01′02″E / 42.7553°N 21.0172°E
Length	72 km (45 mi)
Basin size	950 km2 (370 sq mi)
Basin features
Progression	Sitnica→ Ibar→ West Morava→ Great Morava→ Danube→ Black Sea

The Lab (Serbian Cyrillic: Лаб) or Llap (Albanian: Llapi), is a river in the north-eastern part of Kosovo.^[a] The 72 km (45 mi) long right tributary to the Sitnica river, it is the main river in the Llap (region) depression. Near its origin are remains of medieval palace of Serbian king Milutin (1282-1321) called Vrhlab (Serbian Cyrillic: Врхлаб, which means origin of the Lab).

Name etymology[]

The etymology of the river's name is derived from a pre-Slavic form Alb that underwent linguistic metathesis within Slavic giving the final form as Lab.^[1]

Upper Lab[]

The Lab originates as the Murgulla from the Kopaonik mountain, between the Pilatovica and Bela Stena peaks, on the border of Kosovo and Serbia. The river flows southward, through the region of Upper Lab, by the villages of Marince, Bela Stena, Murgula, Brece and Metohija, receives several smaller streams from the Kopaonik and after it passes the village of Donja Pakaštica, the Lab enters the Malo Kosovo field.^{[citation needed]}

Small Kosovo[]

Malo Kosovo is located between the mountains of Kopaonik (north) and Prugovac (south) and, unlike the Gornji Lab, it is densely populated. After the villages of Dobri Do, Bajčina, Perane and Letance, the Lab reaches the town of Podujevo. At this point, the river bends gently to the southwest and its valley becomes the route for the regional road and railway Niš-Pristina. After the larger village of Glavnik, the Lab receives from the left the Batlava river at the village of Lužane, and from the right its major tributary, the Kačandolska reka by the village of Donje Ljupče.^{[citation needed]}

Large Kosovo[]

At Vrani Do and Besinje villages, the Lab slowly turns west, passing the villages of Raškovo, Miloševo, Prilužje, and Reka, where it empties into the Sitnica. The Lab drains an area of 950 km² (367 sq mi), belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin and it is not navigable.^{[citation needed]}

Notes and references[]

Notes:

^ ^a ^b Kosovo's status is controversial. Since a group of people referred to as "leaders of our people, democratically elected" declared independence in 2008 under the name Republic of Kosovo, it has been formally recognized as an independent state by 97 UN member states (with 15 others that recognized it at one point but then withdrew recognition), while Serbia continues to claim it to be part of its own sovereign territory as the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metochia.

References:

^ Županić, Niko (1936). Značenje barvnega atributa v imeny ,,Crvena Hrvatska’’. Etnolog. p. 362. "Na ozemlju Dukljaninovic Bete Hrvatske se je namreč nahajalo mesto Lab, a stara srbska država Raša se je po njem razprostirala ad Lapiam et Lap, kar gotovo meri na župo in reko Lab, pritok Sitnice na Kosovem polju. Tu je menda nastopila znana slovanska likvidna metateza alb > lab, ali je treba pripomniti, da so ti koreni predslovanski, morda celo predindoevropski, kakor n. pr. pri Labi na severu (Albis). [In the territory of Croatia's Dukljaninovic has a place located called Lab, but the old Serbian state Raša is after stretching to Lapi or Lap, which certainly is measured at the region and the Lab river, a tributary of Sitnica in Kosovo Polje. There is apparently a known Slavic metathesis alb> lab, or these pre-Slavic roots, perhaps even in pre Indoeuropean as n. pr. the Elbe in the north (Albis).]"

Mala Prosvetina Enciklopedija, Third edition (1985); Prosveta; ISBN 86-07-00001-2
Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije; Svjetlost-Sarajevo; ISBN 86-01-02651-6

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[status-1] Kosovo's status is controversial. Since a group of people referred to as "leaders of our people, democratically elected" declared independence in 2008 under the name Republic of Kosovo, it has been formally recognized as an independent state by 97 UN member states (with 15 others that recognized it at one point but then withdrew recognition), while Serbia continues to claim it to be part of its own sovereign territory as the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metochia.

[2] Županić, Niko (1936). Značenje barvnega atributa v imeny ,,Crvena Hrvatska’’. Etnolog. p. 362. "Na ozemlju Dukljaninovic Bete Hrvatske se je namreč nahajalo mesto Lab, a stara srbska država Raša se je po njem razprostirala ad Lapiam et Lap, kar gotovo meri na župo in reko Lab, pritok Sitnice na Kosovem polju. Tu je menda nastopila znana slovanska likvidna metateza alb > lab, ali je treba pripomniti, da so ti koreni predslovanski, morda celo predindoevropski, kakor n. pr. pri Labi na severu (Albis). [In the territory of Croatia's Dukljaninovic has a place located called Lab, but the old Serbian state Raša is after stretching to Lapi or Lap, which certainly is measured at the region and the Lab river, a tributary of Sitnica in Kosovo Polje. There is apparently a known Slavic metathesis alb> lab, or these pre-Slavic roots, perhaps even in pre Indoeuropean as n. pr. the Elbe in the north (Albis).]"

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