(Albanian; or ) is a village located in northeastern

Kosovo Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with International recognition of Kosovo, partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the ...

, in the municipality of

Podujevë Podujevë or Besianë ( sq-definite, Podujeva or ''Besiana'') or Podujevo is a List of cities in Kosovo, city and Municipalities of Kosovo, municipality in the District of Pristina, Pristina District in Kosovo. Podujevë is the largest municip ...

Demographics

The settlement in Dumosh is divided into several "mahalla" (quarters), such as Podvorica, Kutleshi, Maqastena, Visoka etc. The village has a total of 1207 inhabitants.

Infrastructure

The village of Dumosh has a following infrastructure: * Airport (

Dumosh-Batllava Airfield Dumosh-Batllava Airfield or Batllava Airport (Albanian: ''Aeroporti i Batllavës''; Serbian: Аеродром Батлава / ''Aerodrom Batlava'') is a former military airport in the village of Dumosh, near Batllava Lake and the village of ...

) * Elementary school () * 2 grocery stores * Mosque (Xhamia e Dumoshit) * Cemetery * Internet Cafè * Barber shop * Bicycle service * Metalwarehouse * Soccer (football) field

Dumosh-Batllava Airfield

, a Kosovo airport, is a former

military airport An airbase (stylised air base in American English), sometimes referred to as a military airbase, military airfield, military airport, air station, naval air station, air force station, or air force base, is an aerodrome or airport used as a mi ...

in the village of Dumosh, near

Lake Batllava The Batllava Lake (; ) is a lake in northeastern Kosovo. It is one of the largest bodies of water in Kosovo and it has an area of . The bathing lake is a main tourist destination in summer. History Construction of the Batllava Lake dam began ...

and the village of Batllava and the city of

. In 1936,

Aeroput Aeroput () was an airline and flag carrier of Yugoslavia from 1927 until 1948. Society for Air traffic AD Aeroput was the first Serbian company for civil air traffic, which was founded on 17 June 1927 as ''Društvo za Vazdušni Saobraćaj "Aero ...

used the airport on the

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Skopje Skopje ( , ; ; , sq-definite, Shkupi) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It lies in the northern part of the country, in the Skopje Basin, Skopje Valley along the Vardar River, and is the political, economic, and cultura ...

line using the

Aeroput MMS-3 The Aeroput MMS-3 () was the first Yugoslavian twin-engined light three-seater passenger aircraft, produced by Aeronautical service of Aeroput for its own needs in 1935. The chief designer was the aviation engineer Milenko Mitrović - Spirta, the ...

plane. The airport was later rebuilt for military use by the Yugoslav army and air force. It was damaged in 1999 during the

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Notable people

Xhavit Bajrami Xhavit Bajrami (born October 30, 1975) is a Swiss former kickboxer who competed in the heavyweight division. A Seido karate practitioner and Andy Hug student, Bajrami built up an undefeated record domestically before he was recruited by K-1 whe ...

, former Albanian-Swiss K1 kickboxer world champion *

Besnik Podvorica Besnik Podvorica (born 25 May 1986 in Dumosh), is a Kosovo Albanian former professional basketball player who played most of the time for Sigal Prishtina in Kosovo Superleague. Career Born in Dumosh, Podvorica played for Prishtina. In 2014, he ...

, Basketball player,

Kosovo national basketball team The Kosovo men's national basketball team (, ) represents Kosovo in international basketball. They are controlled by the Basketball Federation of Kosovo, the governing body for basketball in Kosovo. Kosovo has been a member of FIBA since 13 Mar ...

and

Sigal Prishtina Klubi i Basketbollit Prishtina ( English: ''Basketball Club Prishtina''), officially known as Sigal Prishtina due to sponsorship reasons, is a Kosovar professional basketball club based in Pristina. The team currently competes in the Kosovo Sup ...

*Besnik Kutleshi, president and senior squad member of

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* Arif Kutleshi, writer and poet

The tea of "çaj rusi"

The most common drink in

is the tea of "çaj rusi" (the Russian tea) or even "çaj i zi" (the black tea), made from tea produced in either

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. This kind of tea is said to have been first served in the village of Dumosh. The black tea is said to have originally been brought from the Caucasus by the Circassians who had immigrated to the village since 1865. Oral tradition in the village tells that Sheqir Hajdar Kutleshi was the first in the village to consume the black tea.

References

Villages in Podujevë {{Podujevo