Deçan

Deçan or Dečani, is a town and the seat of the eponymous municipality in Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of has 3,803 inhabitants, while the municipality has 40,019 inhabitants.During the Kosovo War, Deçan was one of the strongholds of the Kosovo Liberation Army. The KLA regularly smuggled weapons from Albania across the border to Deçan and as a result, the area saw significant fighting between the KLA and Yugoslav army and police. The medieval Serbian Orthodox Visoki Dečani monastery stands around 2 km to the west of the town.