Dujaka

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Dujaka / Dujakë 1
Dujak / Дујак 2
Dujaka does not have a coat of arms
Dujaka (Kosovo)
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Basic data
State : KosovoKosovo Kosovo 3
District : Gjakova
Municipality : Gjakova
Coordinates : 42 ° 27 '  N , 20 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 27 '20 "  N , 20 ° 22' 19"  E
Residents : 715 (2011)
Telephone code : +383 (0) 390
License plate : 07
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.

Dujaka ( Albanian  also  Dujakë , Serbian Дујак Dujak ) is a village in the municipality of Gjakova in southwest Kosovo . It is located around ten kilometers north of the city of Gjakova and includes around 150 houses and 715 residents.

history

Dujaka was first mentioned in Ottoman documents from 1485.

The Austrian doctor Joseph Müller mentioned Dujaka on his trip through Kosovo in 1844. At that time, only 40 people of Albanian origin lived there.

geography

Dujaka is just east of the Gjakova - Peja axis . The Krena flows south through the village to Gjakova.

population

development
year Residents
1948 501
1953 562
1961 631
1971 831
1981 1 143
1991 1 319
2011 715

The 2011 census found Dujaka to have a population of 715, all (100%) of whom said they were Albanians .

Of these, 524 identified themselves as Muslims (73.3%) and 191 as Catholics (26.7%).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Kaser, "The Myth of the Albanian Wandering People", 1997 by Böhlau Verlag Ges.mbH & Co. KG, Vienna-Cologne-Weimer
  2. ↑ Dr. Joseph Müller, "Albania, Rumelia and the Austrian-Montenegrin border or ...." 1844, Prague, Verlag der JS Calv'schen Buchhandlung
  3. ↑ Tim Bespyatov: Kosovo census. In: Population statistics of Eastern Europe. Retrieved May 20, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Tim Bespyatov: Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011. In: Population statistics of Eastern Europe. Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Tim Bespyatov: Religious composition of Kosovo 2011. In: Population statistics of Eastern Europe. Retrieved January 10, 2018 .