Koliq

Koliq / Koliqi ¹
Kolić / Колић ²

Basic data

State :

Kosovo ³

District :

Pristina

Municipality :

Pristina

Coordinates :

42 ° 46 ' N , 21 ° 17' E Coordinates: 42 ° 46 '24 " N , 21 ° 17' 8" E

Height :

794 m above sea level A.

Residents :

466 (2011)

Telephone code :

+383 (0) 38

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.

Koliq ( Albanian also Koliqi , Serbian Колић Kolić ) is a village in the municipality of Pristina in Kosovo .

geography

The village is located in the Gollak , a mountainous region 23 kilometers northeast of Pristina , and borders the municipality of Podujeva . The Batllava Lake is located about four kilometers north.

history

Various remains from late antiquity have been found in Koliq . They are to be included in the list of cultural monuments in Kosovo .

In the area of today's Koliq there used to be a village that is referred to in 17th century sources as Gilasi and had a Roman Catholic population. Obtained in Koliq today Flurnamen Guri Glasit , Kisha e Glasit ( "Church of Glasi") and Reka e Glasit evidence of this former settlement. A German or Saxon population group had also lived in the village since the Middle Ages.

During the Kosovo war , Serbian troops carried out a massacre in Koliq in April 1999. 64 people who were on the run from Kosovo were stopped with their vehicles and executed on the roadside. The bodies could only be buried in an anonymous mass burial after the end of the war in June 1999.

population

ethnicities

The 2011 census recorded 466 inhabitants for Slivova. Of these, 464 identified themselves as Albanians (99.57%) and two stated a different ethnic group.

Population development
census	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991	2011
Residents	1576	1679	1736	1747	1622	1479	466

religion

In 2011, 465 of the 466 inhabitants professed Islam and one declared himself a Catholic .

Individual evidence

↑ Lista e perkohshme e trashigimis kulturore. (PDF; 592 kB) In: Ministria e Kulturës, Rinisë dhe Sportit. Retrieved September 15, 2019 (Albanian).
↑ Skënder Gashi: Kërkime onomastike-historike për minoritete të shuara e Aktuell të Kosovës . Ed .: Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo. Focus Print, Pristina 2015, ISBN 978-9951-615-48-8 , p. 109, 112, 221 (Albanian, ashak.org [PDF]).
^ Evidence of mass murder in Koliq. In: news.bbc.co.uk. British Broadcasting Corporation , June 15, 1999, accessed September 19, 2019 .
↑ Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved August 10, 2018 .
^ Religious composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .

[1] Lista e perkohshme e trashigimis kulturore. (PDF; 592 kB) In: Ministria e Kulturës, Rinisë dhe Sportit. Retrieved September 15, 2019 (Albanian).

[2] Skënder Gashi: Kërkime onomastike-historike për minoritete të shuara e Aktuell të Kosovës . Ed .: Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo. Focus Print, Pristina 2015, ISBN 978-9951-615-48-8 , p. 109, 112, 221 (Albanian, ashak.org [PDF]).

[3] Evidence of mass murder in Koliq. In: news.bbc.co.uk. British Broadcasting Corporation , June 15, 1999, accessed September 19, 2019 .

[4] Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .

[5] Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved August 10, 2018 .

[6] Religious composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .