Drenas
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Drenas / Drenasi 1 (Gllogoc / Gllogoci) Glogovac / Глоговац 2 |
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 Kosovo 3
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| District : | Pristina | ||||
| Municipality : | Drenas | ||||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 37 ' N , 20 ° 54' E | ||||
| Height : | 592 m above sea level A. | ||||
| Residents : | 6,143 (2011) | ||||
| Telephone code : | +383 (0) 584 | ||||
| Postal code : | 13000 | ||||
| License plate : | 01 | ||||
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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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Drenas ( Albanian also Drenasi or Gllogoc / i , Serbian Глоговац Glogovac ) is a city in the center of Kosovo and is located in the Drenica region , which divides the west from the east of Kosovo. It is the official seat of the municipality of the same name.
The place was the scene of military conflicts during the Kosovo war . The Yugoslav army also committed crimes against Albanian civilians there. The Lapušnik prison camp was also operated near the village by the Albanian paramilitary organization UÇK , where war crimes mostly occurred against the Serbian, but also Albanian civilian populations.
Surname
In Albanian , Drenas is now used most frequently for the city . Gllogoc and Gllogovc are alternative names that are rarely used today. After the former name has established itself mainly in the local vernacular, Drenas is now also used at the administrative level and has replaced the names Gllogoc and Gllogovc there .
geography
The municipality of Drenas covers about 290 square kilometers and is located in the central part of the country, between the Čičavica Mountains in the east and the Drenica hills in the north and west, about 30 kilometers west of the capital Pristina . The main road from Pristina to Peja runs through the municipality. Starting from this road, at a crossroads in the village of Komoran, a smaller road branches off to the north from the main road that runs through the town of Drenas itself and continues to Skënderaj .
The stream Lumi i Gllobarit flows through Drenas , which meets the Lumë i vogël near the Lumëbardhi and flows into the Drenica river.
population
The 2011 census recorded 6143 inhabitants for Drenas. 6,129 of them (99.77%) described themselves as Albanians , 3 as Turks , and 1 each as Serb and Bosniak . 5 residents belong to other ethnic groups, no information could be recorded for 4 residents.
| census | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2011 |
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| Residents | 558 | 658 | 836 | 1343 | 2440 | 4499 | 6143 |
Economy and health
The economy is characterized by agriculture, mainly with wheat and corn cultivation. In 2009, part of the arable land that was lost as a result of the Kosovo war was not yet cultivated again. In addition to a large number of small family businesses in handicrafts and trades, the US-owned, iron-nickel gravel processing mining company Feronikel is by far the largest local employer with around 1,000 employees. Failure to comply with occupational health and safety and environmental regulations repeatedly lead to serious accidents and severe environmental pollution in the area.
A health center, seven smaller clinics and a few medical practices provide health care for the population in Drenas. According to the OSCE, in 2009 there was a noticeable shortage of sufficient medicine, specialized equipment and trained personnel.
Religion and culture
The Islam is the most widespread religion in the community; there is one mosque in the city and seven more in the villages. Islam is shaped by Sunni . There is also a small Roman Catholic minority that does not own any churches. The Serbian Orthodox Church also has no church building in the parish because it was not a traditional settlement area for Serbs.
Before the violent conflicts of the 1990s, the community had seven public libraries with around 73,000 books. Of these, around 12,000 books were in the possession of the city library, while the branches in Tërstenik , Komoran , Arllat , Sankoc , Baicë and Gradicë kept the other 61,000 books. In the Kosovo war , however, the libraries in Drenas and the branch in Baicë were completely destroyed. Today the city has a new library with around 6,500 books.
Personalities
- Rainer Wieland (Vice President of the European Parliament) was made an honorary citizen of the city in May 2018 for his peace efforts.
Web links
- Official website of the city (Albanian, English, Serbian, Turkish)
- Municipal Profile (PDF file; English; June 2006; 291 kB)
- OSCE Profile of Glogovac (PDF file; English; September 2009)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/kosovo/undword-04.htm , Human Rights Watch 1999, accessed June 3, 2015.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved June 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved January 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Feronikel- From the pride of the municipality of Drenas- to danger. Kosova aktuell, August 28, 2011, accessed on November 9, 2015 .
- ^ Municipal Profile. (PDF; 291 kB) OSCE Mission in Kosovo, June 2006, accessed on April 23, 2011 (English).
- ↑ IFLA / FAIFE report / April 2000 / Libraries in Kosova / Kosovo. (No longer available online.) International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), April 2000, archived from the original on December 4, 2011 ; accessed on April 23, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
