Opoja
Opoja ( Albanian also Opojë , Serbian Опоље Opolje ) is an ethnographic region in the extreme south of Kosovo . It forms the northern part of the Dragash municipality .
Opoja borders the municipality of Prizren to the north and the Gora region to the south and west , which is the remainder of the municipality of Dragash. To the east are the mountains of the Šar Planina and the border with Macedonia .
Opoja comprises 21 villages with a total of around 23,000 inhabitants. The inhabitants are almost all Albanians , in contrast to the neighboring Gora, which is almost exclusively inhabited by Gorans . In Dragash , the administrative center of the municipality, which lies exactly on the border between the two regions, the two ethnic groups mix. The traditional capital of Opoja and at the same time the largest village is Bresana .
literature
- Robert Elsie: Historical Dictionary of Kosova . Scrarecrow Press 2004, ISBN 9780810853096 , p. 132 ( limited online version in Google Book Search - USA )
- Stefan Mattern: Kosova - Situation of the Minorities (PDF). Swiss Refugee Aid, April 16, 2002
- Stephan Müller: Report on the situation of the Gorani (Goranci) in Kosovo with special consideration of the situation of former members of the Yugoslav Army (PDF; 94 kB)
- Janet Susan Reineck: The Past as Refuge: Gender, Migration and Ideology among Kosovo Albanians (PDF; 11.2 MB) - Dissertation, University of California (Berkley) 1991
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Bock: Travel Guide Kosovo: Nature and culture between Amselfeld and the Albanian Alps . Trescher Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-89794-738-2 , pp. 215 ( google.de ).
Coordinates: 42 ° 3 ′ 38.3 " N , 20 ° 38 ′ 25.2" E