Magura (Kosovo)

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Magurë / Magura 1
Magura / Магура 2
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Magura (Kosovo) (Kosovo)
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Basic data
State : KosovoKosovo Kosovo 3
District : Pristina
Municipality : Lipjan
Coordinates : 42 ° 32 '  N , 21 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 32 '16 "  N , 21 ° 0' 36"  E
Height : 374  m above sea level A.
Residents : 1,670 (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.

Magura ( Albanian  also  Magurë , Serbian - Cyrillic Магура ) is a village in the Kosovar municipality of Lipjan . It is located around four kilometers southwest of Pristina Airport and around nine kilometers west of Lipjan .

Magura is located at the foot of the Crnoljeva on the western edge of the blackbird field . To the north-west of the village rises Mount Golesh ( 1019  m. I. J. ), where magnesite is also mined on a large scale .

Surname

The place name of Magura is of Aromanian descent ( măgura ) and roughly means "small hill" or " pasture ". In Albanian, magula has the same meaning.

population

The 2011 census in the Republic of Kosovo found that the village of Magura was inhabited by 1,670 people. Of these, 1,479 (88.56%) described themselves as Albanians , 181 (10.84%) as Ashkali , 8 as Bosniaks and 2 gave no answer.

Of the 1670 inhabitants, in 1665 they declared themselves to be Islam , 4 described themselves as Catholics and 1 resident made no answer.

Population development
census 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981 1991 2011
Residents 260 631 1144 1903 2304 2670 1670

Infrastructure

Magura with the mine behind

In Magura there is a police station (2015: 19 officers) and a health center.

In addition, a home for asylum seekers was opened in the town in 2012, which accommodated 25 asylum seekers in 2016 .

traffic

Road traffic

Magura is the junction of the regional roads R 208 ( Rruga e Shalës or Shala - Lipjan ) and R 120 ( Magura - Sllatina e Madhe ).

railroad

The train from Pristina or Bardh i Vogël at airport Pristina past ends in Magura. She opens up the mine. Freight trains from Trainkos run regularly .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 585-586 (Albanian, ashak.org [PDF]).
  2. ↑ Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  3. ^ Religious composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved June 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved June 3, 2018 .
  5. ^ Lipjan / Lipljan. Municipal Profile. (PDF) In: osce.org. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe , accessed June 3, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Hilmi Jashari: Report of National Preventive Mechanism against torture. Ombudsperson on visit to Asylum-Seekers Center. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: ombudspersonkosovo.org. Institution of the Ombudsperson of the Republic of Kosovo, February 7, 2017, archived from the original on April 15, 2017 ; accessed on June 3, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ombudspersonkosovo.org
  7. ↑ Kosovo Railways, Ferronikeli in 2.0 Mln Euro Deal transport. In: SeeNews. July 16, 2007, accessed June 3, 2018 .