Besia

Besi / Besia ¹
Besinje / Бесиње ²

Basic data

State :

Kosovo ³

District :

Pristina

Municipality :

Pristina

Coordinates :

42 ° 45 ' N , 21 ° 9' E Coordinates: 42 ° 45 '13 " N , 21 ° 8' 53" E

Height :

608 m above sea level A.

Residents :

694 (2011)

Telephone code :

+383 (0) 38

License plate :

01

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.

Besia ( Albanian also Besi , Serbian Бесиње Besinje ) is a village in Kosovo , it belongs to the municipality of Pristina .

history

It is believed that the place name goes back to an ancient fortress called Besiana . Besiana was located here or in the immediate vicinity and was one of several fortresses that, according to Prokop , were rebuilt by Emperor Justinian in the 6th century , in particular to protect the Eastern Roman Empire from barbarian invasions. This place name may have an etymological connection with the Thracian people of the Bessen .

Between 1927 and 1932, two families of Serbian colonists settled in Besia .

population

The 2011 census in the Republic of Kosovo found that the village of Besia was inhabited by 694 people, all of them Albanians .

Population development
census	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991	2011
Residents	214	252	265	350	477	509	694

Individual evidence

↑ Zef Mirdita: The economic and social conditions of the central area of Dardania in antiquity . In: Balcanica . tape 18-19 . Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts , Belgrade 1988, p. 101 ( google.de ).
^ Skënder Gashi: La toponymie antique et leproblemème de l'autochtonie des Albanais. Results and problems . In: Onomastica Jugoslavica . tape 6 , 1976, p. 123 (French, google.de ).
↑ Atanasije Urošević: Etnički Procesi na Kosovu Tokom Turske vladavine . Belgrade 1987, p. 14-15 (Serbian, google.com ).
^ Atanasije Urošević: Kosovo . Belgrade 1965, p. 151 f . ( scribd.com ).
↑ Tim Bespyatov: Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011 at pop-stat.mashke.org, accessed on May 7, 2017
↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved March 10, 2019 .

[1] Zef Mirdita: The economic and social conditions of the central area of Dardania in antiquity . In: Balcanica . tape 18-19 . Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts , Belgrade 1988, p. 101 ( google.de ).

[2] Skënder Gashi: La toponymie antique et leproblemème de l'autochtonie des Albanais. Results and problems . In: Onomastica Jugoslavica . tape 6 , 1976, p. 123 (French, google.de ).

[3] Atanasije Urošević: Etnički Procesi na Kosovu Tokom Turske vladavine . Belgrade 1987, p. 14-15 (Serbian, google.com ).

[4] Atanasije Urošević: Kosovo . Belgrade 1965, p. 151 f . ( scribd.com ).

[5] Tim Bespyatov: Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011 at pop-stat.mashke.org, accessed on May 7, 2017

[6] Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved March 10, 2019 .