Pjetërshan

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Pjetërshan (Kosovo)
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Basic data
State : KosovoKosovo Kosovo 3
District : Gjakova
Municipality : Gjakova
Coordinates : 42 ° 20 '  N , 20 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 20 '26 "  N , 20 ° 27' 32"  E
Height : 390  m above sea level A.
Residents : 209 (2011)
Telephone code : +383 (0) 390
License plate : 07
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.

Pjetërshan ( Albanian  also  Pjetërshani , Serbian Петрушан Petrušan ) is a village in the municipality of Gjakova in Kosovo south of Gjakova .

geography

The village is about six kilometers from Gjakova and ten kilometers from the border with Albania . North of Pjetërshan is the AMF DOLI hospital and the Erenik river . To the south of the village there is a forest area that extends up to the mountains on the border.

Church of Saint Joseph with Christmas lights in Pjetërshan

In Pjetërshan there is a medieval Catholic Church of St. Joseph .

population

Ethnicity

According to the 2011 census, the population is 209 people. All are Albanians .

Population development
census 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981 1991 2011
Residents 175 200 247 312 425 504 209

religion

Except for one person, all residents (208 or 99.52%) described themselves as Catholic .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved September 4, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved September 4, 2018 .
  3. ^ Religious composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved September 4, 2018 .