Billusha

Billusha / Billushë 1 Biluša / Билуша 2
Basic data
State :	Kosovo 3
District :	Prizren
Municipality :	Prizren
Coordinates :	42 ° 10 ′  N , 20 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 10 ′ 10 "  N , 20 ° 40 ′ 27"  E
Residents :	1,495 (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.

Billusha ( Albanian  also  Billushë , Serbian Билуша Biluša ) is a village in southwest Kosovo and belongs to the municipality of Prizren .

geography

Billusha, in the southwest of Kosovo, is around ten kilometers east of the border with Albania and around three kilometers west of Prizren . Neighboring towns are Poslishta to the north and Hoça e Qytetit and Jeshkova to the east . The national road M-25 and the Autostrada R 7 run a little north of the village.

climate

In Billusha there is a temperate continental climate with an average annual temperature of 11 ° C and an annual rainfall of almost 900 mm.

Billusha
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     80   3 -3     71   6th -1     71   11 2     71   16 6th     81   21st 10     56   25th 13     50   27 15th     48   28 15th     67   24 11     84   17th 7th     105   10 3     95   5 -1 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: Climate Data The climatological data are based on the monthly averages from 1982 to 2012

Billusha Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 3.2 5.9 11.1 15.8 21.3 24.9 27.4 27.5 23.6 16.9 9.5 4.5 O 16 Min. Temperature (° C) -3.1 -1.1 1.9 5.7 9.8 13.2 14.9 14.6 11.3 7th 2.7 -1.3 O 6.3 Temperature (° C) 0 2.4 6.5 10.7 15.5 19th 21.1 21st 17.4 11.9 6.1 1.6 O 11.1 Precipitation ( mm ) 80 71 71 71 81 56 50 48 67 84 105 95 Σ 879 Source: Climate Data The climatological data are based on the monthly averages from 1982 to 2012

history

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 Billusha becoming part of the newly created municipality of Hoča Zagradska (today Hoça e Qytetit ). A census carried out in 1919 recorded 104 houses with a total of 574 - exclusively Albanian - residents in Billusha.

population

Population development

census	1919	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991	2011
Residents	574	664	728	804	1002	1241	1363	1495

The 2011 census showed a population of 1495 for Billusha. 1490 (99.67%) of them identified themselves as Albanians , two as Bosniaks and three people gave no answer regarding their nationality.

religion

In 2011, 1492 of the 1495 inhabitants professed Islam and three people gave no answer regarding their beliefs.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sheradin Berisha: Ndarja administrative në Qarkun e Prizrenit - në vitin 1919. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008 ; Retrieved January 1, 2018 (Albanian). 
2. ↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved May 25, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Tim Bespyatov: Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011 . Retrieved May 25, 2017.
4. ↑ Tim Bespyatov: Religious composition of Kosovo 2011 . Retrieved May 25, 2017.