Mitrovica is a city and municipality located in Kosovo. Settled on the banks of Ibar and Sitnica rivers, the city is the administrative center of the District of Mitrovica.

In 2013, following the North Kosovo crisis, the Serb-majority municipality of North Mitrovica was created, dividing the city in two administrative units. According to the 2011 Census, in Mitrovica live 84,235 inhabitants, 71,909 of which in the southern municipality and 12,326 in North Mitrovica.

The name of Mitrovica derives from the Greek name Demetrius. It was most probably named after the 8th century Byzantine church St. Demetrius which was built near Zvecan Fortress, just above the modern Mitrovica, in honor of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki. The city was called D(i)mitrovica until it fell under the Ottoman rule.

In 1660, the Ottoman explorer Evliya Çelebi mentions for the first time the city with the name Mitrovica.

After President Tito's death, each of the constituent parts of Yugoslavia had to have one place named with the word "Tito" (or "Tito's") included, the city was then known as Titova Mitrovica in Serbian or Mitrovica e Titos in Albanian, until 1991.