Obiliq
Obiliq / Obiliqi 1 (Kastriot / Kastrioti) Obilić / Обилић 2 |
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State : | Kosovo 3 | |||
District : | Pristina | |||
Municipality : | Obiliq | |||
Coordinates : | 42 ° 41 ′ N , 21 ° 5 ′ E | |||
Height : | 526 m above sea level A. | |||
Area : | 105 km² | |||
Residents : | 6,864 (2011) | |||
Population density : | 65 inhabitants per km² | |||
Telephone code : | +383 (0) 038 | |||
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. |
Obiliq ( Albanian also Obiliqi , more rarely Kastriot or Kastrioti , Serbian Обилић Obilić ) is a city and the official seat of the municipality of the same name in the center of Kosovo . It borders in the southeast on the municipality of Pristina , from which it was separated in 1989. The main road between Pristina and Mitrovica runs through the municipality.
history
Until 1912 the place was called Globoderica ( Cyrillic Глободерица ), since then it has been named after the Serbian national hero Miloš Obilić . With the construction of a railway line from 1873, Globoderica gained greater local importance as a train station for nearby Pristina and grew into a business location with the arrival of the city: in 1933, 15 companies were now based here.
population
The 2011 census determined for Obiliq 6,864 inhabitants, including 6,627 (96.55%) Albanians , 207 (3.02%) Roma , Ashkali and Balkan Egyptians , 13 Bosniaks and five Gorans .
census | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2011 |
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Residents | 1217 | 1613 | 3646 | 6906 | 8769 | 11612 | 6864 |
Sports
The local football club is the KF KEK which plays in the second-class Liga e Pare .
economy
Obiliq is the location of one of the two lignite power stations in Kosovo.
Personalities
- Dragana Todorović (* 1974), Serbian singer
Web links
- Description of the situation of the OSCE in April 2008 (PDF, 202 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Atanasije Urošević: Kosovo . Belgrade 1965, p. 257 f . ( scribd.com ).
- ↑ Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved February 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved February 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Kosovo: Ways out of dependency. Deutsche Welle , January 19, 2008, accessed May 15, 2013 .