Mamusha

Mamushë / Mamusha ¹
Mamuša / Мамуша ²
Mamuşa

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Basic data

State :

Kosovo ³

District :

Prizren

Municipality :

Mamusha

Coordinates :

42 ° 20 ' N , 20 ° 44' E Coordinates: 42 ° 19 '51 " N , 20 ° 43' 37" E

Residents :

5,507 (2011)

Telephone code :

+383 (0) 29

Postal code :

20540

License plate :

04

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.

Mamusha ( Albanian also Mamushë , Serbian Мамуша Mamuša , Turkish Mamuşa ) is a small town in the south of Kosovo , about 15 km north of Prizren . It forms its own municipality of the same name and is the only village in Kosovo with a majority Turkish population.

history

Clock tower in Mamusha

The place name was mentioned in a document as early as 1348 as Momouše . During the Ottoman Empire, mostly Turks from Tokat Province settled in the city .

After the conquest of Kosovo by the Kingdom of Serbia , the Serbian government set up a military administration on site, with Mamusha becoming part of the municipality of Zojić (now Zojz ).

After the Kosovo war in 1999 80 were in Mamuša Turkish soldiers of KFOR stationed that still guard the city.

population

According to the 2011 census, Mamusha had 5507 inhabitants. Of these, 5128 (93.12%) described themselves as Turks , 327 (5.94%) as Albanians , 51 (0.93%) as Roma and Ashkali and one person as Bosniak . Mamusha is the only village or the only one of the 38 municipalities in Kosovo where the Turks make up the majority of the population.

Population development
census	1919	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991	2011
Residents	805	1352	1500	1590	2038	2752	3297	5507

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 70 (Albanian, ashak.org [PDF]).
↑ ^a ^b Sheradin Berisha: Ndarja administrative në Qarkun e Prizrenit - në vitin 1919. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008 ; Retrieved January 28, 2018 (Albanian).
↑ Mamusa / MaMushë / Mamusa. In: osce.org. OSCE , accessed May 17, 2017 .
↑ Popullsia e komunës së Mamushës sipas vendbanimit, gjinisë dhe etnicitetit 2011. Statistics Agency of Kosovo, accessed on May 17, 2017 (Albanian).

↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved January 28, 2018 .

[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. 70 (Albanian, ashak.org [PDF]).

[agimi-2] Sheradin Berisha: Ndarja administrative në Qarkun e Prizrenit - në vitin 1919. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008 ; Retrieved January 28, 2018 (Albanian).

[osze-3] Mamusa / MaMushë / Mamusa. In: osce.org. OSCE , accessed May 17, 2017 .

[4] Popullsia e komunës së Mamushës sipas vendbanimit, gjinisë dhe etnicitetit 2011. Statistics Agency of Kosovo, accessed on May 17, 2017 (Albanian).

[5] Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved January 28, 2018 .