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Opolje
Opolje (; ) is a region in the southern part of the municipality of Prizren in southern Kosovo. The region has 19 villages mainly inhabited by Kosovo Albanians. Settlements The region of Opoja includes 18 settlements: *Bellobrad *Blaç *Breznë * Bresanë *Brrut *Buqe *Buzez *Kapre *Kosavë *Kuklibeg *Kuk *Plajnik *Plavë *Rrencë *Zhaplluxhë *Zgatar *Zym *Xërxë Name The naming of towns and cities in ancient times, especially during the Hellenization period in the Balkans, was done by adding the word "polis" to the name of the founder. The names of some cities are compound formations, expanding with the addition of the suffix -o from an anthroponym and the lemma -polis (-pol): Konstantin-o-polis, (Konstantin-o-pol), for Istanbul; Alban-o-polis, (Alban-o-pol) for Zgërdhesh of Kruja; Adrian-o-polis, (Adrian-o-pol) for Nëprevishat of Gjirokastra, etc. The evolution from O-polis to Opojë and Opolje follows a similar pattern. According to Milisav Lutovac, the name is of Slav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragash
Dragash or Sharr ( sq-definite, Dragashi or ''Sharri;'' sr-cyr, Драгаш) is a town and municipality located in the Prizren District of Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the municipality has 34,827 inhabitants. The Albanian name ''Sharri'' is a reference to the Šar Mountains (in Albanian ''Sharr''). The Serbian name ''Dragaš'' comes from medieval Serbian lord Constantine Dragaš. History The oldest mosque in Kosovo and in the Balkans was built in 1289 and it is called Al-Aga Mosque. Dragash was named after a Serbian medieval noble family of the same name which served Dušan the Mighty (r. 1331-1355) and Uroš the Weak (r. 1355-1371). From 1877 to 1913, Dragash was part of Kosovo Vilayet in the Ottoman Empire. From 1929 to 1941, Dragash was part of the Vardar Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1941, Yugoslavia came under Axis invasion, and Dragash became a part of Albania; first under the Debar prefecture and later in 1943 transferred to the Kosovo pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorani People
The Gorani (, ) or Goranci (, ), are a Slavic ethnic group inhabiting the Gora region, the triangle between Kosovo, Albania, and North Macedonia. They number an estimated 60,000 people and speak a transitional South Slavic dialect called '' Goranski''. The vast majority of the Gorani people adhere to Sunni Islam. Name The ethnonym ''Goranci'', meaning "highlanders", is derived from the Slavic toponym '' gora'', which means "hill, mountain". Another autonym of this people is ''Našinci'', which literally means "our people, our ones". In Macedonian sources, the Gorani are sometimes grouped together with '' Torbeši''. In the Albanian language, they are known as ''Goranët'' "Goranët jetojnë në krahinën e Gorës, që sot ndahet mes shteteve të Shqipërisë, të Kosovës etë Maqedonisë, krahinë nga ku e marrin edhe emrin." and sometimes by other exonyms, such as ''Bullgarët'' ("Bulgarians"), ''Torbesh'' ("bag carriers") and ''Poturë'' (" turkified", from ''po-tur'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gora (region)
Gora (Cyrillic: Гора; ) is a geographical region in southern Kosovo and northeastern Albania, primarily inhabited by the Gorani people. Due to geopolitical circumstances, some of the local Gorani people have over time also self declared themselves as Albanians, Macedonians, Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Turks and Muslims by ethnicity. Gorani inhabited settlements in Albania and Kosovo are synonymous with the geographical outline of Gora as a region. Between 1992 and 1999, the Gora region in Kosovo was designated as a municipality, and its population was 17,574 people according to the 1991 census. Today in Kosovo, the region is part of Dragash municipality that includes the Albanian inhabited Opoja region. In Albania, the Gora region is located in Kukës County and parts of it are subdivided in the Shishtavec and Zapod territorial units. Nearby, two Gorani settlements geographically located in the Polog region of North Macedonia are ethnographically and linguistically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Kosovo
A District ( or ; or , or ) is the highest level of administrative divisions of Kosovo. The districts of Kosovo are based on the 2000 Reform of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, UNMIK-Administration. UNMIK reform of 2000 The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, UNMIK) introduced the following changes to the districts and municipalities of Kosovo (UNMIK) in 2000: * The Kosovska Mitrovica District (Serbia), Kosovska Mitrovica District became the District of Mitrovica. * The Peć District (Serbia), Peć District was split into the District of Peja and the District of Gjakova. ** Additionally, the municipality of Rahovec was transferred to the District of Gjakova. * The Kosovo District was split into the District of Pristina and District of Ferizaj. * The Kosovo-Pomoravlje District was renamed into the District of Gjilan. ** Additionally, it transferred the municipality of Novo Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Kosovo
A municipality (; ) is the basic administrative division in Kosovo and constitutes the only level of power in local governance. There are 38 municipalities in Kosovo; 27 of which have an Kosovo Albanians, Albanian ethnic majority, 10 Kosovo Serbs, Serb and Mamusha, 1 Turks in Kosovo, Turkish. After the Brussels Agreement (2013), 2013 Brussels Agreement, signed by the governments of Government of Kosovo, Kosovo and Government of Serbia, Serbia, an agreement was made to create a Community of Serb Municipalities, which would operate within Kosovo's legal framework. Since 2013, the agreement has not been fulfilled by Kosovo's authorities, calling upon its Constitution of Kosovo, constitution and territorial integrity. List of municipalities Powers of municipalities All municipalities have the following competences, as regulated by Law Nr. 03/L-040 of the Constitution of Kosovo: # Local economic development. # Urban and rural planning. # Land use and development. # Implementation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brodosana
Brodosana (, ) is a village in the south of Kosovo, located the Opolje Opolje (; ) is a region in the southern part of the municipality of Prizren in southern Kosovo. The region has 19 villages mainly inhabited by Kosovo Albanians. Settlements The region of Opoja includes 18 settlements: *Bellobrad *Blaç *Brezn� ... region of the Šar Mountains. References Villages in Dragash {{Kosovo-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brrut
Brrut is a village in the south of Kosovo, in the municipality of Dragash, located the Opolje region of the Šar Mountains. Culture Brrut has two mosques which were built early and renovated in recent years. Brrut has several archaeological sites of importance for cultural heritage, including the ruins of an Albanian Orthodox castle and church, old cemeteries, burial grounds, etc. Brrut has traditional music, dance, horse racing and some pagan festivals like Summer on March 14, where a fire is lit for this holiday and traditional Flija food, the feast of harvest and St. George, Jeremiah St. Collie, Shiribudi etc. In addition to this Brruti also has some traditional accessories (Loom, crochet, boshti, furka), for making traditional clothes even though this is no longer practiced, there are still people who know how to do it. Also a resident possesses seeds of a characteristic plant which is used to work different clothes and oil paintings for painting. Another important point is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
župa
A župa, or zhupa, is a historical type of administrative division in Southeast Europe and Central Europe, that originated in medieval South Slavs, South Slavic culture, commonly translated as "county" or "parish". It was mentioned for the first time in the eighth century and was initially used by the South Slavs, South and West Slavs, denoting various territorial units of which the leader was the župan. In modern Serbo-Croatian, the term also refers to an ecclesiastical parish, in Slovene language, Slovene likewise for ''župnija'', while the related ''županija'' is used in Croatia for lower administrative subdivisions, and likewise by Croats from Bosnia and Herzegovina (as a synonym for ''kanton''). Etymology The word ''župa'' or ' (Slovak language, Slovak and Czech language, Czech: ; Polish language, Polish: ; Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian language, Bulgarian: ; adopted into and rendered in Greek language, Greek as (, "land ruled by a župan")), is derived from Slavic lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aromanians
The Aromanians () are an Ethnic groups in Europe, ethnic group native to the southern Balkans who speak Aromanian language, Aromanian, an Eastern Romance language. They traditionally live in central and southern Albania, south-western Bulgaria, northern and central Greece, and North Macedonia, and can currently be found in central and southern Albania, south-western Bulgaria, south-western and eastern North Macedonia, northern and central Greece, southern Serbia, and south-eastern Romania (Northern Dobruja). An Aromanian diaspora living outside these places also exists. The Aromanians are known by several other names, such as "Vlachs" or "Macedo-Romanians" (sometimes used to also refer to the Megleno-Romanians). The term "Vlachs" is used in Greece and in other countries to refer to the Aromanians, with this term having been more widespread in the past to refer to all Romance-speaking peoples of the Balkan Peninsula and Carpathian Mountains region (Southeast Europe). Their ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbian Despotate
The Serbian Despotate () was a medieval Serbian state in the first half of the 15th century. Although the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 is mistakenly considered the end of medieval Serbia, the Despotate, a successor of the Serbian Empire and Moravian Serbia, lasted for another sixty years, experiencing a cultural, economic, and political renaissance, especially during the reign of Despot Stefan Lazarević. After the death of Despot Đurađ Branković in 1456, the Despotate continued to exist for another three years before it finally fell under Ottoman rule in 1459. After 1459, political traditions of the Serbian Despotate continued to exist in exile, in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, with several titular despots of Serbia, who were appointed by kings of Hungary. The last titular Despot of Serbia was Pavle Bakić, who fell in the Battle of Gorjani in 1537. History Origins After Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović was killed in the Battle of Kosovo on June 28, 1389, his young son Stefan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries. The empire emerged from a Anatolian beyliks, ''beylik'', or principality, founded in northwestern Anatolia in by the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. His successors Ottoman wars in Europe, conquered much of Anatolia and expanded into the Balkans by the mid-14th century, transforming their petty kingdom into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the Fall of Constantinople, conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II. With its capital at History of Istanbul#Ottoman Empire, Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and control over a significant portion of the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire was at the centre of interacti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geographic Region
In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography). Geographic regions and sub-regions are mostly described by their imprecisely defined, and sometimes transitory boundaries, except in human geography, where Jurisdiction (area), jurisdiction areas such as national borders are defined in law. More confined or well bounded portions are called ''locations'' or ''places''. Apart from the Earth, global continental regions, there are also hydrosphere, hydrospheric and atmosphere, atmospheric regions that cover the oceans, and discrete climates above the land mass, land and water mass, water masses of the planet. The land and water global regions are divided into subregions geographically bounded by large geological feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
