Shkoza

Shkozë / Shkoza 1 Škoza / Шкоза 2
Basic data
State :	Kosovo 3
District :	Prizren
Municipality :	Prizren
Coordinates :	42 ° 10 '  N , 20 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 10 '3 "  N , 20 ° 35' 28"  E
Height :	460  m above sea level A.
Residents :	788 (2011)
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.

Shkoza ( Albanian  also  Shkozë , Serbian Шкоза Škoza ) is a village in southwest Kosovo and belongs to the municipality of Prizren .

geography

Shkoza is located approximately four kilometers east of the border with Albania and approximately nine kilometers west of Prizren. Neighboring villages are Vërmica in the west, Zhur in the east and Dobrushta in the north. The mountain landscape of Koritnik begins in the south of Shkoza .

The national road M-25 and the Autostrada R 7 run through Shkoza .

climate

Shkoza has a temperate continental climate with an average annual temperature of 12.2 ° C and an annual rainfall of over 900 mm. In July the average temperature is 22.3 ° C, in January 0.8 ° C.

Shkoza
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     84   4th -3     75   7th -1     73   12 2     75   17th 6th     81   22nd 10     55   26th 14th     49   28 16     48   28 15th     69   24 12     87   17th 7th     110   10 3     100   5 -1 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: Climate Data The climatological data are based on the monthly averages from 1982 to 2012

Shkoza Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 3.6 6.5 11.6 16.5 21.9 25.6 28 28.1 24.1 17.3 10 5 O 16.6 Min. Temperature (° C) -2.7 -0.5 2.4 6.3 10.4 13.9 15.6 15.2 11.8 7.4 3.1 -0.8 O 6.9 Temperature (° C) 0.8 3.5 7.4 11.9 16.7 20.4 22.3 22.3 18.5 12.8 7.1 2.6 O 12.2 Precipitation ( mm ) 84 75 73 75 81 55 49 48 69 87 110 100 Σ 906 Source: Climate Data The climatological data are based on the monthly averages from 1982 to 2012

history

After the conquest of Kosovo by the Kingdom of Serbia during the First Balkan War in 1912, the Serbian government set up a military administration on site, with Shkoza becoming part of the newly created municipality of Vrbnica (now Vërmica ). In a census carried out in 1919, 25 houses with 146 - all Albanian - inhabitants were recorded for the village of Shkoza .

Population and religion

Population development

Census	1919	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991	2011
Residents	146	141	170	197	247	388	501	788

The 2011 census found that Shkoza was home to 788 people. Of them, 763 (96.83%) were Albanians , two Bosniaks , one Gorane and 22 gave no information about their nationality.

766 declared themselves to be Muslims and there is no answer from 22 people regarding religion.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sheradin Berisha: Ndarja administrative në Qarkun e Prizrenit - në vitin 1919. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008 ; Retrieved May 20, 2017 (Albanian). 
2. ↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved May 6, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Tim Bespyatov: Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011 . Retrieved May 18, 2017.
4. ↑ Tim Bespyatov: Religious composition of Kosovo 2011 . Retrieved May 18, 2017.