Gračanica (Kosovo)

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Graçanicë / Graçanica 1
Gračanica / Грачаница 2
Coat of arms of Gračanica (Kosovo)
Gračanica (Kosovo) (Kosovo)
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Basic data
State : KosovoKosovo Kosovo 3
District : Pristina
Municipality : Gračanica
Coordinates : 42 ° 36 '  N , 21 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 36 '4 "  N , 21 ° 11' 45"  E
Height : 588  m above sea level A.
Residents : 2,686 (2011)
Telephone code : +383 (0) 38
Postal code : 10050
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.

Gračanica ( Serbian - Cyrillic Грачаница , Albanian  Graçanica or Graçanicë ) is a country town and the official seat of the municipality of the same name in Kosovo , not far from the capital Pristina .

The Serbian Orthodox monastery Gracanica is one of the most famous monuments of Kosovo and counts since 2006 to UNESCO - World Heritage Site . However, it is on the red list of World Heritage in Danger .

The city is considered a Serbian exclave in central Kosovo because of its Serbian majority.

population

According to the 2011 census, there are 2686 people in Gračanica. The Serbs are the largest ethnic group with 2090 people (77.81%), followed by the Roma , Ashkali and Balkan Egyptians with 456 people (16.98%). There are also 53 (1.97%) Albanians , 22 (0.82%) Gorans and 9 (0.34%) Bosniaks . 23 belong to other races and 33 people have no answer regarding their ethnic origin.

Population development 1
Census 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981 1991 2011
Residents 1087 1240 1891 3478 4537 4739 2686
1The dates from 1948 to 1991 inclusive also include the village of Kizhnica . In 2011 it is recorded separately and has 700 inhabitants.

economy

Facade of the "Hotel Gracanica"

The economy is mainly based on retail trade and agriculture. The former Swiss diplomat Andreas Wormser has been running the “Hotel Gracanica” in Gračanica since April 2013 (in the original spelling, ç and č are merged into one letter), whose managing directors are Roma. The opening of the hotel generated considerable media coverage.

Web links

Commons : Gračanica  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Popullsia e komunës së Graçanicës sipas vendbanimit, gjinisë dhe etnicitetit 2011. Statistics Agency of Kosovo, accessed on May 10, 2017 (Albanian).
  2. ↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved June 12, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Hans von der Hagen: Hotel Heimat: The Roma almost never manage to gain a place in economic life. Sometimes it works: a Swiss diplomat first helps to return refugees to their country and then settles in Kosovo. He opens a hotel - with two Roma as bosses , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung 9./10. July 2016 (print version), accessed September 15, 2016
  4. ↑ Martin Woker: An unusual hotel on the outskirts of Pristina , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung January 2014, accessed September 15, 2016
  5. ↑ Homepage of the hotel