Atmaxha

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Atmaxha / Atmaxhë 1
Atmađa / Aтмaђa 2
Atmaxha does not have a coat of arms
Atmaxha (Kosovo)
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Basic data
State : KosovoKosovo Kosovo 3
District : Prizren
Municipality : Prizren
Coordinates : 42 ° 15 ′  N , 20 ° 41 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 14 ′ 30 "  N , 20 ° 40 ′ 55"  E
Height : 376  m above sea level A.
Residents : 1,685 (2011)
Telephone code : +383 (0) 29
License plate : 04
1  Albanian (indefinite / definite form) ,
2  Serbian (Latin / Cyrillic spelling)
3  Kosovo's independence is controversial. Serbia continues to regard the country as a Serbian province.

Atmaxha ( Albanian  also  Atmaxhë or Atmagja / -ë , Serbian Атмађа Atmađa ) is a place in Kosovo that belongs to the municipality of Prizren .

geography

Atmaxha is located on the northern outskirts of Prizren . The Autostrada R 7 runs south of the village.

history

In 1844 Joseph Müller mentioned the village of Atamaźa near Prizren in his book Albania, Rumelia and the Austro-Montenegrin border . Accordingly, the place was at that time a manor (literally a villa ) of merchants from Prizren with two large farms .

After the conquest of Kosovo by the Kingdom of Serbia during the First Balkan War in 1912, the Serbian government set up a military administration on site, with Atmaxha becoming part of the newly created municipality of Vlašnja (now Vlashnja ).

population

The 2011 census found that Atmaxha lived in 1685 people. Of these, 1677 (99.53%) were Albanians , one was Serbian and no data on ethnicity are available for seven other people.

1620 (96.14%) declared themselves as Muslims , 57 (3.38%) as Catholics , one person as Orthodox and no data on religion are available for seven other people.

Population development
census 1919 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981 1991 2011
Residents 155 295 320 480 636 946 1248 1685

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Joseph Müller: Albania, Rumelia and the Austro-Montenegrin border . JS Calv'sche Buchhandlung publishing house, Prague 1844, p. 84 ( google.de ).
  2. ↑ a b Sheradin Berisha: Ndarja administrative në Qarkun e Prizrenit - në vitin 1919. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008 ; Retrieved February 6, 2018 (Albanian).
  3. ↑ Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
  4. ^ Religious composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .