Podujeva

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Podujevë / Podujeva 1
(Besianë / Besiana)
Podujevo / Подујево 2
Coat of arms of Podujeva
Podujeva (Kosovo)
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Basic data
State : KosovoKosovo Kosovo 3
District : Pristina
Municipality : Podujeva
Coordinates : 42 ° 55 '  N , 21 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 54 '42 "  N , 21 ° 11' 30"  E
Height : 670  m above sea level A.
Area : 8  km²
Residents : 23,453 (2011)
Population density : 2,932 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code : +383 (0) 38
Postal code : 11000
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.

Podujeva ( Albanian  also  Podujevë , or Besiana or Besianë ; Serbian Подујево Podujevo ) is a city in northeastern Kosovo . It is the official seat of the municipality of the same name .

geography

Podujeva is located in the northeast of Kosovo, on the border with Serbia . The Llap flows through Podujeva . The region around the city of Llap is named after this river . In the vicinity of the city is the Batllava reservoir, built in the sixties , which was built for the drinking water supply and which still supplies the communities of Podujeva and Pristina with drinking water. In summer it is a popular swimming and fishing lake for people from all over the country.

population

At the 2011 census, the city had 23,453 inhabitants, of which 22,696 (96.77%) described themselves as Albanians , 678 (2.89%) as Roma and Ashkali , 10 as Bosniaks , 3 as Serbs and 2 as Turks .

Population development
Census 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981 1991 2011
Residents 2435 3253 4870 8490 15,894 25,847 23,453
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During the Kosovo war in spring 1999, numerous homeless Kosovar Albanians fled to Podujeva; 15,000 refugees are said to have lived in the Sfeçël / Svetlje district alone at the time; 100,000 refugees are assumed for the entire city. After the war ended, most of them returned to their hometowns.

politics

The elected municipal administration is run by the LDK . After the end of the war in 1999, the ethnic groups initially lived together peacefully.

On February 16, 2001, a terrorist attack was carried out on several Serbian coaches coming from Gračanica and driving towards Niš . The bombing killed 11 Serb civilians and injured several dozen seriously.

Since the March riots in 2004 , hardly any Serbs have lived in Podujeva.

Economy and Infrastructure

View over the city

There is high unemployment in the city. In summer 2005 an iron factory was privatized. There is also a large polystyrene factory and a pipe factory awaiting privatization. Otherwise the war has caused a lot of damage. The reconstruction has made great strides. Most of the investments , however, come from private individuals who, after the war in Kosovo, founded around 2,200 companies in the municipality of Podujeva alone.

The Batlava airfield is eight kilometers south of Podujeva, but is currently out of service ( see also Aviation in Kosovo ).

Sports

Podujeva has two soccer teams playing in the 1st division ( Raiffeisen Superliga ) of Kosovo:

KF Hysi won the Kosovar championship in 2011.

There is also a basketball team, handball team, table tennis team, volleyball team, swimming club and karate team. The karate team has international success.

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved June 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved June 17, 2018 .