Desivojca

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Desivojca (Kosovo)
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Basic data
State : KosovoKosovo Kosovo 3
District : Gjilan
Municipality : Kamenica
Coordinates : 42 ° 40 ′  N , 21 ° 44 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 39 ′ 32 "  N , 21 ° 44 ′ 21"  E
Height : 823  m above sea level A.
Residents : 177 (2011)
Telephone code : +383 (0) 280
License plate : 06
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.
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Desivojca ( Albanian  also  Desivojcë , Serbian Десивојце Desivojce ) is a village in eastern Kosovo and part of the municipality of Kamenica .

geography

The place is about 50 kilometers east of the city of Gjilan and is a sub-center for the surrounding villages. After Kamenica is about 20 kilometers. Not far from the village runs the R-124 , which connects Kamenica with the border with Serbia; however, there is no official border crossing there . North of Desivojca is Mount Gollak at an altitude of 1327  m. i. J.

The village has a primary school and a mosque from 1816. In the immediate vicinity there are remains of a medieval Serbian Orthodox church and an old Serbian cemetery .

population

ethnicities

Population development
year Residents
1948 878
1953 945
1961 916
1971 991
1981 919
1991 868
2011 177

According to the 2011 census, Desivojca has 177 inhabitants, of which 176 describe themselves as Albanians and one person as a Bosniak .

religion

In 2011, all of the 177 inhabitants professed Islam .

Individual evidence

  1. Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011 at pop-stat.mashke.org, accessed on July 23, 2017
  2. Tim Bespyatov: Religious composition of Kosovo 2011 . Retrieved July 23, 2017.