Zojz (Kosovo)
Zojz / Zojzi 1 Zojić / Зојић 2 |
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State : | Kosovo 3 | |||
District : | Prizren | |||
Municipality : | Prizren | |||
Coordinates : | 42 ° 18 ' N , 20 ° 42' E | |||
Height : | 320 m above sea level A. | |||
Residents : | 828 (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. |
Zojz ( Albanian also Zojzi , Serbian Зојић Zojić ) is a village in the southwest of Kosovo and belongs to the municipality of Prizren .
geography
Zojz, in the south-west of Kosovo, is around ten kilometers north of Prizren . Neighboring towns are Smaç and Medvec to the east, Pirana to the west , Sërbica e Poshtme to the south and Randobrava to the north . The Topluha River and the R 7 Autostrada run south of the village .
climate
Zojz has a temperate continental climate with an average annual temperature of 12.3 ° C and an annual rainfall of around 850 mm. In July the average temperature is 22.6 ° C, in January 0.8 ° C.
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Source: Climate Data The climatological data are based on the monthly averages from 1982 to 2012
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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 Zojz becoming an independent municipality. This also included the villages of Medvec and Mamusha . 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 .
A census carried out in 1919 recorded 26 houses with 150 inhabitants in Zojz.
During the Kosovo war , the village of Zojz was almost completely destroyed by artillery shelling by Serbian and Yugoslav armed forces in 1999 .
population
The 2011 census showed that Zojz was home to 828 people. Of them, 813 (98.19%) were Albanians and 15 were Ashkali . All 828 residents declared themselves Muslim .
Census | 1919 | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2011 |
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Residents | 150 | 188 | 256 | 316 | 414 | 663 | 972 | 828 |
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 January 7, 2018 (Albanian).
- ↑ OVK zauzima selo Zojz, truli Leš nađen kuće unutar. In: info-ks.net. October 4, 2015, accessed January 7, 2018 (Bosnian).
- ↑ Tim Bespyatov: Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011 . Retrieved January 7, 2018.
- ↑ Tim Bespyatov: Religious composition of Kosovo 2011 . Retrieved January 7, 2018.
- ↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved January 7, 2018 .