Suhareka

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Suharekë / Suhareka 1
(Therandë / Theranda)
Suva Reka / Сува Река 2
Coat of arms of Suhareka
Suhareka (Kosovo)
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Basic data
State : KosovoKosovo Kosovo 3
District : Prizren
Municipality : Suhareka
Coordinates : 42 ° 22 '  N , 20 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 21 '44 "  N , 20 ° 50' 0"  E
Height : 400  m above sea level A.
Residents : 10,422 (2011)
Telephone code : +383 (0) 29
Postal code : 23000
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.

Suhareka ( Albanian  also  Suharekë , or Theranda or Therandë ; Serbian Сува Река Suva Reka ) is a city in southern Kosovo . It is the seat of the municipality of the same name and is 18 km from Prizren and 57 km from the capital Pristina .

geography

Suhareka is located at the northeastern end of the Prizren plain , which is located in southwest Kosovo. Behind it rises the hilly area of Carraleva , from which the Topluga River rises and flows through the city from the east.

Aerial view over Suhareka (in the middle of the picture) with the surrounding villages

The R7 motorway runs right past the northern outskirts . Neighboring villages are north of the motorway Peqan and Shllapuzhan , east Reçan , southeast Sopia , south Shiroka and west Reshtan .

history

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1348. In 1638 the clergyman Irvant Gjergj Bardhi informed the Vatican that 45 people in Suhareka attended the confirmation and that 45 households with 120 inhabitants in the village profess the Roman Catholic Church . After the Catholic Church increased its activities against Islamization from 1650 , 160 Catholic households were counted in Suhareka. In 1761, however , the Diocese of Skopje only recorded 20 Catholic women, the rest had converted to Islam in the meantime.

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 Suhareka becoming the seat of Srez Podgora with ten parishes. The Srez was subordinate to the Okrug Prizren . At the same time, Suva Reka became its own municipality, which in addition to the main town also included the villages of Peçan , Shllapuzhan and Reçan . This administrative division existed until January 6, 1929, when the area became part of the newly created Vardarska banovina within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia .

Mosque in the center of the village

Close to Suhareka was the Camp Casablanca NATO base , where the majority of Austrian , Swiss and German (occasionally US ) troops were stationed. Various CIMIC projects were also coordinated from there, including the establishment of an HTL school. The construction was carried out, among other things, by volunteers, all of whom were students from Austrian HTLs, and sponsors from the Austrian economy. The projects mentioned were largely supported and directed by Sr. Johanna Schwab (from the Order of the Sisters of Mercy). In August 2012, Camp Casablanca was closed and the site was handed over to the community of Suhareka. Now the city administration is planning the construction of industrial and commercial buildings, school facilities and a marketplace on the area.

population

The city of Suhareka had a total of 10,422 inhabitants at the 2011 census, of which 10,272 (98.56%) identified themselves as Albanians , 122 (1.17%) as Roma and Ashkali , 8 as Bosniaks , 2 as Serbs and 1 as Turkish . 6 people reported a different ethnicity.

10,022 (96.16%) said they were Muslim , 37 (0.36%) atheists , 9 Catholics and 5 Orthodox . In addition, 334 (3.20%) people did not belong to any religious community and 7 people to other religions.

Population development
census 1914 1919 1921 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981 1991 2011
Residents 998 804 945 1715 2120 2708 4148 6653 10497 10422
Albanians k. A. 725
(90.17%)		 k. A. k. A. k. A. 2070
(76.44%)		 3531
(85.13%)		 5940
(89.28%)		 k. A. 10272
(98.56%)

In the 1919 census, 94 houses with 722 residents (89.80%) out of 109 households were Muslim-Albanian, 1 house with 3 residents (0.37%) were Catholic-Albanian and 14 houses with 79 residents (9.83%) Serbian Orthodox.

Town twinning

The cooperation resulted in various cultural exchanges between associations in both communities as well as in the construction and joint operation of the Fellbach-Haus youth and educational facility , which among other things looked after traumatized children after the war.

Sports

The local football club in Suhareka is KF Ballkani .

economy

During the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s, the economy in Suhareka collapsed almost completely. Suhareka was previously an important industrial location , for example the Balkan factory , manufacturer of tires and conveyor belts , employed over 2000 workers. Today Solid Shoes is a notable shoe producer and exporter from the town and is an example of the beginning of the rebuilding of the industry.

Also important is the viticulture remained what Suhareka was already known before the war. The cultivation of strawberries and raspberries has gained in importance , not least because of government subsidies .

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Suva Reka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Dell: Kosovo - Information - Travel - Remember . 2017, ISBN 978-3-7431-1037-3 ( google.de ).
  2. ↑ a b c Sheradin Berisha: Ndarja administrative në Qarkun e Prizrenit - në vitin 1919. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008 ; Retrieved May 7, 2018 (Albanian).
  3. ↑ SWISSCOY: Camp Casablanca is history. Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport, August 30, 2012, accessed on January 12, 2013 .
  4. ↑ a b Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .
  5. ^ Religious composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved May 12, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b Mark Krasniqi: Сува Река . 1960.
  7. ↑ a b c Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Ethnic composition of Yugoslavia 1961. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved May 13, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Ethnic composition of Yugoslavia 1971. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved May 13, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Ethnic composition of Yugoslavia 1981. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved May 13, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from August 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of April 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ a b The Morina: Rënia e industrisë i largon të rinjtë nga Suhareka. In: reporter.al. Balkan Insight , August 2, 2017, accessed May 14, 2018 (Albanian).