title: Žač
text: # Žač
  
  Žač (Serbian Cyrillic: Жач, Albanian: Zallçi) is a village/settlement in the Istog Municipality of Kosovo. The village was in the spotlight in 2010, when Serbian refugees were denied the right to return to their homes.
  
  ## Population
  
  Ethnic Composition, Including IDPs :
  
  | Year/Population | Albanians | % | Serbs | % | Montenegrins | % | Muslims (by ethnicity) | % | others | % | Total |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1961 | 287 | 41.72% | 243 | 35.32% | 158 | 22.97% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 688 |
  | 1971 | 405 | 51.59% | 254 | 32.36% | 115 | 14.65% | 0 | 0.00% | 11 | 1.40% | 785 |
  | 1981 | 251 | 29.05% | 191 | 22.11% | 81 | 9.38% | 327 | 37.85% | 14 | 1.62% | 864 |
  | 1991 | 1 | 0.19% | 147 | 27.79% | 52 | 9.83% | 307 | 58.03% | 22 | 4.16% | 529 |
  
  Albanians boycotted the census in 1991, so their numbers for that year are not known.
  
  