Zhur

Zhur / Zhuri 1 Žur / Жур 2
Basic data
State :	Kosovo 3
District :	Prizren
Municipality :	Prizren
Coordinates :	42 ° 10 ′  N , 20 ° 37 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 10 ′ 1 ″  N , 20 ° 36 ′ 47 ″  E
Height :	635  m above sea level A.
Residents :	5,909 (2011)
Telephone code :	+383 (0) 29
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.

Zhur ( Albanian  also  Zhuri , Serbian Жур Žur ) is a town in southwest Kosovo and belongs to the municipality of Prizren .

geography

Zhur, located in southwest Kosovo, is about five kilometers east of the border with Albania and about eight kilometers west of Prizren . Neighboring towns are Shkoza to the west and Poslishta and Billusha to the east . The mountain landscape of Koritnik begins in the south of Zhur .

Zhur is located directly on the M-25 national road . The Autostrada R 7 runs a little north of the village.

At Zhur, the construction of a hydroelectric power plant of the same name was planned, which would be the largest in the country, have a capacity of 305 megawatts and produce 400 gigawatt hours of electricity annually. The water for this was to be supplied from reservoirs to be built in the Opoja region . However, this project was discarded for reasons of low profitability .

climate

In Zhur there is a temperate continental climate with an annual average temperature of 11.6 ° C and an annual total precipitation of almost 900 mm. In July the average temperature is 21.6 ° C, in January 0.3 ° C.

Zhur
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     83   3 -3     73   6th -1     72   12 2     74   16 6th     81   22nd 10     55   26th 14th     49   28 15th     47   28 15th     68   24 12     86   17th 7th     108   10 3     98   5 -1 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: Climate Data The climatological data are based on the monthly averages from 1982 to 2012

Zhur Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 3.4 6.4 11.6 16.4 21.8 25.5 27.9 28 24.1 17.3 9.9 4.9 O 16.5 Min. Temperature (° C) -2.8 -0.6 2.4 6.2 10.3 13.8 15.4 15.1 11.8 7.4 3.1 -0.8 O 6.8 Temperature (° C) 0.3 2.9 7th 11.3 16 19.6 21.6 21.5 17.9 12.3 6.5 2 O 11.6 Precipitation ( mm ) 83 73 72 74 81 55 49 47 68 86 108 98 Σ 894 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 local military administration , with Žur becoming an independent municipality. She belonged to the Srez Šar of 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 .

In a census carried out in 1919, 251 houses with 1,304 - all Albanian - inhabitants were recorded in the village of Žur .

population

development

year	Residents
1919	1304
1948	1926
1953	2019
1961	2348
1971	3214
1981	4353
1991	5230
2011	5909

The 2011 census showed a population of 5909 for Zhur. 5897 (99.80%) of them described themselves as Albanians and six (0.10%) as Bosniaks .

religion

In 2011, 5,903 of the 5,909 inhabitants professed Islam , one person was a Catholic and one person had a different faith.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Në dyshim ndërtimi i hidrocentralit në Zhur. In: telegrafi.com. August 20, 2012, Retrieved May 21, 2017 (Albanian). 
2. ^ ^{A b c} Ndarja administrative në Qarkun e Prizrenit - në vitin 1919. Archived from the original on July 24, 2008 ; Retrieved May 20, 2017 (Albanian). 
3. ↑ Tim Bespyatov: Kosovo census. In: Population statistics of Eastern Europe. Retrieved May 6, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Popullsia e komunës së Prizrenit sipas vendbanimit, gjinisë dhe etnicitetit 2011. Statistics Agency of Kosovo, accessed on May 16, 2017 (Albanian). 
5. ↑ Tim Bespyatov: Religious composition of Kosovo 2011. In: Population statistics of Eastern Europe. Retrieved May 16, 2017 (English).