Kamenica

Kamenica, known in Albanian as Kamenicë or Dardanë and in Serbian as Kosovska Kamenica, is a town and municipality in the Gjilan District of eastern Kosovo. The municipality lies in hilly and mountainous country in the Gollak region and borders Ranillug, Novobërda, Pristina and Serbia; Gjilan is about 30 km away and Pristina about 75 km. The 2024 census counted 22,868 people in the municipality and 5,206 in the town, with Albanians making up about 89.9 percent and Serbs 8.2 percent. The area was historically inhabited by the Dardani, an Illyrian people, and the Dardana Fortress site preserves archaeological evidence of their presence, later reconstructed in the late Roman period. Mayors and municipal assemblies are elected every four years.