Qyshk

Qyshk / Qyshku ¹
Ćuška / Ћушка ²

Basic data

State :

Kosovo ³

District :

Peja

Municipality :

Peja

Coordinates :

42 ° 39 ' N , 20 ° 20' E Coordinates: 42 ° 39 '22 " N , 20 ° 20' 27" E

Residents :

1,481 (2011)

License plate :

03

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.

Qyshk ( Albanian also Qyshku , Serbian Ћушка Ćuška ) is a village in Kosovo east of the city of Peja .

massacre

On May 14, 1999, during the war in Kosovo, a massacre of at least 43 Albanian civilians took place in Qyshk.

population

The 2011 census of Qyshk showed a population of 1,481, of which 1,377 (92.98%) described themselves as Albanians , 101 (6.82%) as Roma or Balkan Egyptians and one person as a Bosniak .

Population development
census	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991	2011
Residents	389	459	665	1027	1464	1537	1481

education

A primary school named after Skender Çeku was opened in Qyshk in September 2013.

Personalities

Agim Çeku (* 1960), Kosovar politician

Individual evidence

↑ Suspected Serbian war criminal arrested. In: orf.at. ORF , December 28, 2010, accessed on December 28, 2010 .
↑ Popullsia e komunës së Pejës sipas vendbanimit, gjinisë dhe etnicitetit 2011. In: rks-gov.net. Statistics Agency of Kosovo, accessed on May 30, 2017 (Albanian).
↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved November 27, 2019 .
↑ Ministri Buja përuroi shkollën fillore "Skender Çeku" në të Ćuška Pejës. In: rks-gov.net. Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of the Republic of Kosovo, September 26, 2013, accessed May 30, 2017 (Albanian).

[1] Suspected Serbian war criminal arrested. In: orf.at. ORF , December 28, 2010, accessed on December 28, 2010 .

[2] Popullsia e komunës së Pejës sipas vendbanimit, gjinisë dhe etnicitetit 2011. In: rks-gov.net. Statistics Agency of Kosovo, accessed on May 30, 2017 (Albanian).

[3] Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved November 27, 2019 .

[4] Ministri Buja përuroi shkollën fillore "Skender Çeku" në të Ćuška Pejës. In: rks-gov.net. Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of the Republic of Kosovo, September 26, 2013, accessed May 30, 2017 (Albanian).