Restelica

Restelicë / Restelica ¹
Restelica / Рестелица ²

Basic data

State :

Kosovo ³

District :

Prizren

Municipality :

Dragash

Coordinates :

41 ° 57 ′ N , 20 ° 40 ′ E Coordinates: 41 ° 56 ′ 36 " N , 20 ° 40 ′ 12" E

Height :

1,717 m above sea level A.

Residents :

4,698 (2011)

Telephone code :

+383 (0) 38

License plate :

04

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.

Restelica ( Albanian also Restelicë , Serbian - Cyrillic Рестелица ) is a village in the south of Kosovo in the Dragash municipality . It traditionally belongs to the Gora region . With almost 4700 inhabitants, it is the largest town in the municipality.

history

View on Restelica (2014)

After the conquest of Kosovo by the Kingdom of Serbia in the First Balkan War in 1912, the Serbian government set up a local military administration . Restelica was named an independent municipality. This was part of the Srez Gora within the Okrug Prizren . On January 6, 1929, this administrative division was dissolved, whereupon the area became part of the newly created Vardarska banovina within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia .

population

According to the last census in 2011, 4698 people live in the village. 2739 (58.30%) belonged to the Gorans and 1564 (33.29%) to the Bosniaks . 172 (3.66%) declared themselves as Albanians , 55 (1.17%) as Turks and 102 (2.17%) assigned themselves to another ethnic group.

Mosque in Restelica (2018)

With 4691 people (99.85%) almost all of the villagers were Muslims .

Language and schooling

A local dialect of Torlak is spoken in the Gora , which the Gorans call Našinski . The Torlak dialect group belonging to Serbo-Croatian forms a dialect continuum to the Macedonian or Bulgarian language . Schooling in Restelica takes place in the two Serbo-Croatian varieties Serbian and Bosnian : the Serbian- speaking classes follow the curriculum of the Serbian state, while the Bosnian-speaking classes are taught according to the curriculum of the Republic of Kosovo. As a rule, the Goran parents send their children to Serbian lessons, while the children of the parents who call themselves Bosniaks take part in Bosnian lessons.

Population development
census	1919	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991	2011
Residents	525	1393	1471	1772	2576	3476	4274	4698

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Ndarja administrative në Qarkun e Prizrenit - në vitin 1919. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008 ; Retrieved October 28, 2018 (Albanian).
↑ Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
^ Religious composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
↑ Cyrill Stieger: The flexibility of the Slavic Muslims. In: nzz.ch. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 5, 2017, accessed on October 29, 2018 .
↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved October 27, 2018 .

[agimi-1] A ^b Ndarja administrative në Qarkun e Prizrenit - në vitin 1919. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008 ; Retrieved October 28, 2018 (Albanian).

[2] Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .

[3] Religious composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .

[4] Cyrill Stieger: The flexibility of the Slavic Muslims. In: nzz.ch. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 5, 2017, accessed on October 29, 2018 .

[5] Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved October 27, 2018 .