Kuqishta

Kuqishtë / Kuqishta 1 Kućište / Кућиште 2
Basic data
State :	Kosovo 3
District :	Peja
Municipality :	Peja
Coordinates :	42 ° 42 '  N , 20 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 41 '51 "  N , 20 ° 4' 54"  E
Height :	1,208  m above sea level A.
Residents :	9 (2011)
Telephone code :	+383 (0) 38
License plate :	03
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.

Kuqishta ( Albanian  also  Kuqishtë or Kuçishta / Kuçishtë , Serbian Кућиште Kućište ) is a small village in western Kosovo . It is located at the upper end of the Rugova Gorge in the Prokletije Mountains ( Albanian  Alpet Shqiptare ) at 1208  m. i. J. About six kilometers from the core of the actual village there is another part of the village consisting of a hotel complex and a restaurant.

Winter in Kuqishta

A little to the west is the border with Montenegro . The border crossing to Montenegro has been closed to traffic since the Kosovo war . Kuqishta is on the M-9 road that leads to the Čakor Pass .

The Pećka Bistrica ( Albanian  Lumbardh i Pejës ) flows through the village. The summit of Leqinat (or Liqenat ) with an altitude of 1799  m. i. J. is in the south of the village. A small mountain lake on the mountain is called Leqinat Lake .

According to the 2011 census , the village had nine inhabitants, all of whom (100%) identified themselves as Albanians .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Endrit Shima et al .: Peaks of the Balkans. Cross border hiking Albania-Kosovo-Montenegro . 1: 60,000. Huber Kartographie, Munich, ISBN 978-3-943752-16-8 .
2. ↑ Popullsia e komunës së Pejës sipas vendbanimit, gjinisë dhe etnicitetit 2011. In: rks-gov.net. Statistics Agency of Kosovo, accessed on June 24, 2017 (Albanian).