Shpenadia

Shpenadi / Shpenadia ¹
Шпинадија / Špinadija ²

Basic data

State :

Kosovo ³

District :

Prizren

Municipality :

Prizren

Coordinates :

42 ° 16 ' N , 20 ° 45' E Coordinates: 42 ° 16 '23 " N , 20 ° 45' 26" E

Height :

394 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,168 (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.

Shpenadia ( Albanian also Shpenadi or Shpinadi / -a , Serbian Шпинадија Špinadija ) is a village in Kosovo that belongs to the municipality of Prizren .

geography

Shpenadia is on a plain north of Prizren , about six kilometers from the city. Neighboring villages are Velezha in the west , Caparca in the north and Lutogllava and Korisha in the east .

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 Shpenadia becoming part of the newly created municipality of Novak .

population

The 2011 census for Shpenadia showed a population of 1168, of which 1089 (93.24%) described themselves as Albanians and 78 (6.68%) as Ashkali and Balkan Egyptians .

religion

The predominant religion is Catholicism , however there are also Muslims in Shpenadia: in 2011, 1,038 people (88.87%) reported being Catholic and 129 people (11.04%) reported being Muslim.

development

Population development
Census	1919	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991	2011
Residents	145	391	343	423	584	764	866	1168

In 1919, 145 inhabitants from 16 Albanian families lived in Shpenadi, twelve of whom were Catholic with a total of 108 people and four were Muslim with a total of 37 people.

In 2003/2004 the mayor named a population of around 1,300, divided between 104 Albanian and six Kosovar-Egyptian families.

economy

In the village there is a bakery, hairdressers, internet cafés, Playland, a doctor, a drinks shop and small grocery stores.

Personalities

Pal Shtufi , educator, formerly dissident and politically imprisoned
Krist Shtufi (* 1974), philosopher

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Sheradin Berisha: Ndarja administrative në Qarkun e Prizrenit - në vitin 1919. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008 ; Retrieved May 23, 2017 (Albanian).
↑ Popullsia e komunës së Prizrenit sipas vendbanimit, gjinisë dhe etnicitetit 2011. In: rks-gov.net. Statistics Agency of Kosovo, accessed on May 25, 2017 (Albanian).
^ Religious composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved May 25, 2017 .
↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved January 20, 2018 .
^ A Strategy for Education for Rural People in Kosovo. (PDF) Archived from the original on November 16, 2010 ; accessed on May 25, 2017 (English).

[agimi-1] Sheradin Berisha: Ndarja administrative në Qarkun e Prizrenit - në vitin 1919. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008 ; Retrieved May 23, 2017 (Albanian).

[2] Popullsia e komunës së Prizrenit sipas vendbanimit, gjinisë dhe etnicitetit 2011. In: rks-gov.net. Statistics Agency of Kosovo, accessed on May 25, 2017 (Albanian).

[3] Religious composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved May 25, 2017 .

[4] Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved January 20, 2018 .

[FAO-5] A Strategy for Education for Rural People in Kosovo. (PDF) Archived from the original on November 16, 2010 ; accessed on May 25, 2017 (English).