Krusha e Madhe

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Krushë e Madhe / Krusha e Madhe 1
Velika Kruša / Велика Круша 2
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Krusha e Madhe (Kosovo)
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Basic data
State : KosovoKosovo Kosovo 3
District : Gjakova
Municipality : Rahovec
Coordinates : 42 ° 19 '  N , 20 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 19 '2 "  N , 20 ° 38' 15"  E
Residents : 4,473 (2011)
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.

Krusha e Madhe ( Albanian  also  Krushë e Madhe , Serbian Велика Круша Velika Kruša ) is a village in the Rahovec municipality in Kosovo .

geography

Krusha e Madhe is located in the valley of the White Drin , which flows about two kilometers southwest of the village. Between the village and the river bank there are extensive agricultural areas. Neighboring villages are northwest Celina , northeast Nagac and southeast Krusha e Vogël belonging to the municipality of Prizren .

history

After the conquest of Kosovo by the Kingdom of Serbia during the First Balkan War in 1912, the Serbian government set up a military administration on site, with Krusha e Madhe becoming part of the newly created municipality of Mala Kruša (now Krusha e Vogël ).

The UÇK and TMK march in memory of the war victims in Krusha e Madhe (September 1999)

During the war in Kosovo , Serbian troops carried out an attack on Krusha e Madhe from March 25 to 28, 1999, initiated by gunfire in the early morning hours of March 25. In the following there was looting and arson in the place. As part of the Krusha e Madhe massacre, people were executed at different locations at several times. 241 people were killed and around three quarters of the houses were set on fire. Many of the bodies were burned by the Serbian police, and an unspecified part was removed with an excavator. To date, over 63 villagers are missing. In particular, 140 women became widows who were later to come together in a club.

population

According to the last census from 2011, Krusha e Madhe has 4473 inhabitants, of which 4440 (99.26%) are Albanians .

Population development
census 1919 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981 1991 2011
Residents 712 1235 1412 1730 2460 3376 4311 4473
Albanians 700
(98.31%)		 1627
(94.05%)		 2421
(98.41%)		 3341
(98.96%)		 - 4440
(99.26%)

economy

Cultivation areas of the agricultural cooperative Krusha

Krusha e Madhe is agriculturally oriented. The place was already known for growing vegetables, especially paprika , in earlier times .

In 2005 war widows founded the association Gratë e Veja ("the widows"), in 2010 an agricultural cooperative developed from it ( Kooperativa Bujqësore Krusha ). It also produces processed foods such as ajvar and pickled vegetables . In the meantime (2019) over 600 tons of vegetables are processed annually, around 70% are exported abroad.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sheradin Berisha: Ndarja administrative në Qarkun e Prizrenit - në vitin 1919. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008 ; Retrieved October 14, 2019 (Albanian).
  2. ^ Human Rights Watch (ed.): Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo . 2001, ISBN 978-1-56432-264-7 , pp. 358-364 .
  3. ↑ a b Enver Robelli: In the valley of death the will to live returns. In: blog.bazonline.ch. Basler Zeitung , March 23, 2019, accessed on October 14, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Fahrije does what she wants. In: chrismon.evangelisch.de. Chrismon (magazine) , December 31, 2014, accessed October 14, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop.stat.mashke.org. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Ethnic composition of Yugoslavia 1961. In: pop.stat.mashke.org. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Ethnic composition of Yugoslavia 1971. In: pop.stat.mashke.org. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Ethnic composition of Yugoslavia 1981. In: pop.stat.mashke.org. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Weltspiegel : Video (from 0:01:16) on YouTube , accessed on October 14, 2019.