Novo Brdo

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Novobërdë / Novobërda 1
(Artanë / Artana)
Novo Brdo / Ново Брдо 2
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Novo Brdo (Kosovo)
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Basic data
State : KosovoKosovo Kosovo 3
District : Gjilan
Municipality : Novo Brdo
Coordinates : 42 ° 37 '  N , 21 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 36 '59 "  N , 21 ° 25' 54"  E
Height : 1,000  m above sea level A.
Residents : 183 (2011)
Telephone code : +383 (0) 38
Postal code : 16000
License plate : 06
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.
View from the fortress to places in the community

Novo Brdo ( Serbian - Cyrillic Ново Брдо ; Albanian  Novobërda or Novobërdë , more rarely Artana or Artanë ; Middle Low German Nyeu-berghe ; Venetian Novomonte ; Turkish Nobırda ) is a town within the municipality of the same name in eastern Kosovo .

etymology

The name is formed from the words novo (Eng. "New") and the Slavic toponym brdo ("hill"), and means "new hill" in Serbian.

geography

Novo Brdo is located in the east of Kosovo in a hilly landscape. The Kosovar capital Pristina is about 20 kilometers to the north-west. The nearest towns are Kamenica in the east and Gjilan in the south. The region around Novo Brdo is rich in minerals .

history

middle Ages

Novo Brdo Fortress, also called Gornji Grad Fortress . It dates back to the Byzantine era and was expanded by the Serbian King Uroš II Milutin in 1285. The fortress is located on an extinct volcano .

Novo Brdo and the region belonged to the Serbian Empire as early as the 12th century . When the Serbian King Uroš IV. Dušan took over power, he was able to expand his territory to a large empire, while Dušan himself became the most powerful king in Southeast Europe . The age under Tsar Dušan is now considered the golden age of Serbia. Novo Brdo itself experienced a great boom under his rule. The mining town benefited primarily from the economic and trade relations that the ruler had promoted. Under Tsar Dušan's instructions, Saxon miners came into the empire for mining and fortress construction, as well as Dubrovnians (then Ragusans ) for trade.

Many Saxons (Serbian Sasi ) from the Ore Mountains settled in Novo Brdo . In the main factory of Novo Brdo, huge sums of money were turned over by buying gold and selling imported goods, often to the annoyance of the Venetians who were also represented in Novo Brdo . This made the city one of the most important trading centers and one of the largest sources of income for the Greater Serbian Empire.

A Jewish community in Novo Brdo is first mentioned in 1442 and is one of the earliest in Kosovo.

20th century

After the fall of the Ottoman Empire , Novo Brdo lost its former importance. Between 1963 and 1991 the area belonged to the municipality of Pristina until it was formed into a separate administrative unit.

population

In 2011, the actual town of Novo Brdo had 183 inhabitants, of whom 176 (96.17%) were Albanians , 6 Turks and one Bosniak .

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Novo Brdo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Gerhard Herm : The Balkans. The powder keg of Europe . Econ Verlag GmbH, Düsseldorf / Vienna / New York / Moscow 1993, ISBN 978-3-430-14445-2 , p. 153 .
  2. Albert Ramaj: The rescue of the Jews in Albania. Albanisches Institut, St. Gallen, January 11, 2012, accessed on August 22, 2012 (PDF file, 73.6 KB).
  3. Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved January 15, 2018 .