Viti, Kosovo

Viti (Albanian definite form: Vitia) or Vitina (Serbian Cyrillic: Витина) is a town and municipality located in the District of Gjilan in Kosovo.

[2] The entire fighting happened in 1999 and in the southern part of the municipality, near the Karadak Mountains, in villages such as Lubishtë, Gjylekare, Mogillë, Smirë, Kabash and Dëbëlldeh.

[2] Following the 1999 Kosovo War, it was the home of A Company, 2/505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, the first KFOR troops to begin stabilization efforts in the municipality.

[7] Amidst the Insurgency in Macedonia, approximately 300 NLA fighters from the Vitia municipality, mostly recruited in Dëbëlldeh and Mjakë, participated in several battles against Macedonian security forces in Tanuševci.

[9][10] In 2013 in response to a KLA monument being removed by Serbian authorities in Preševo, a Kosovo Albanian crowd in Viti demolished a Yugoslav-era memorial for anti-fascist Partisans that were killed during the Second World War.

A protest in Viti, monitored by KFOR troops, January 2000.
Military checkpoint in Viti, July 1999.
The Vitia Municipality and its Settlements