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Dushkaja
Dushkaja or Dushkajë is an ethnographic region in the Dukagjini Plains of western Kosovo. The football club KF Dushkaja is named after the region. Much of the region corresponds to the District of Gjakova. Etymology Dushkaja's etymology derives from the Albanian word ''dushk'' (which in itself is derived from the Proto-Albanian language), meaning 'oak', as the region is covered with many oak forests. Geography Dushkaja lies in the central part of the Dukagjini Plains and consists of 26 villages administered by two municipal centers - Gjakova and Deçan. Dushkaja is characterized by a large number of hills, valleys and plains that are covered with small and large oak forests. Most settlements in the region utilise Gjakova as their urban centre, save for Dashinoc, Maznik, Ratishë e Epërm, Ratishë e Poshtme and Vranoci i Vogël, which utilise Deçan as their cultural centre. Dushkaja is bordered by the White Drin to the east, Deçan's Lumbardh to the north (which separates fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KF Dushkaja
KF Dushkaja () is a professional football club from Kosovo which competes in the Second League. The club is based in Gjakovë. Their home ground is the Dushkaja Sports Field which has a viewing capacity of 500. They are named after the Dushkaja region. See also * List of football clubs in Kosovo This is a list of football clubs from Kosovo, sorted alphabetically by division. Clubs by division Ipko Superliga 1° League 2° League 3° League ; Group A classifies teams from the Dukagjin Region. ; Group B classifies teams from ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dushkaja Football clubs in Kosovo Association football clubs established in 2000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beci, Kosovo
Beci is a village in the Dushkaja subregion in the Gjakova Municipality of Kosovo. It is almost exclusively inhabited by ethnic Albanians, who form the near-absolute majority of the village's population. Etymology It is believed that the toponym is derived from the Albanian word ''Bec-i'', which means "little lamb" in Albanian. Geography Beci is bordered by Sapot to the west, Zhdrellë and Rashkoc to the northwest and north, Cërmjan to the northeast, Meqe east , Doblibare and Vraniq to the southeast and with Lugu e Bunarit to the south and southwest. It is located in the ethnographic Dushkaja region, and is situated around 7km northeast of Gjakova. History Beci is divided into two sections - ''Beci i Epër'' (Upper Beci) and ''Beci i Poshtëm'' (Lower Beci). In the cadastral documents of the Sanjak of Shkodra in 1485, the village is mentioned with the name ''Beçi''. Anthropology Beci is inhabited by a near-absolute majority of ethnic Albanians, and most of the inhabitants trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bardhasan
Bardhasan is a village in the Dushkaja subregion of the Gjakova municipality of Kosovo. It is inhabited exclusively by Albanians. Etymology Bardhasan is considered to derive from a patronym rooted in the Albanian word ''Bardhë'' (meaning "white"). Geography Bardhasan is situated on the right bank of the White Drin in the Dushkaja subregion. It is located around 10 km east of the city of Gjakova. It is bordered by Doblibare to the north and Marmulli to the south. Its total area consists of around 1.051 ha. History Bardhasan's 19th century Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ... church of Shën Bumi is a protected monument of cultural heritage in Kosovo. The toponymy of Bardhosan is dominated by Albanian toponyms, but there is also an element of foreign lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosovo Ethnographic Regions
Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Europe. It lies at the centre of the Balkans. Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008, and has since gained diplomatic recognition as a sovereign state by 101 member states of the United Nations. It is bordered by Serbia to the north and east, North Macedonia to the southeast, Albania to the southwest, and Montenegro to the west. Most of central Kosovo is dominated by the vast plains and fields of Dukagjini and Kosovo field. The Accursed Mountains and Šar Mountains rise in the southwest and southeast, respectively. Its capital and largest city is Pristina. In classical antiquity, the central tribe which emerged in the territory of Kosovo were Dardani, who formed an independent polity known as the Kingd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhabel
Zhabel is a village in the Dushkaja subregion in the Gjakova municipality of Kosovo. It is inhabited exclusively by Albanians. Geography Zhabel is 20 km north of Gjakova. It is positioned in two valleys and is composed of 2 main sections - ''Zhabeli Plak'' (Old Zhabel) and ''Zhabeli i Ri'' (New Zhabel). Toponomy Zhabel consists of Albanian toponomy, such as ''Shpati'' (slope), ''Grykat'' (gorges), ''Ara e Madhe'' (big field), ''Kodra e Trimave'' (hill of the brave), ''Përroni i Vogël'' (little stream), ''Fangi'', ''Lugina e Maliqëve'' (valley of the Maliqi) ''Livadhet e Gata'' (long meadows), ''Lugu i Sokolëve'', ''Livadhet e Mëdha'' (big meadows), ''Kroni i Mllokës'', ''Kodra e Malësorëve'' (hill of the highlanders) etc. History Zhabel's inhabitants lived in the locality of Zhabeli Plak. In between Zhabeli Plak and Zhabeli i Ri, on the ''Kodra e Malësorëve'' (hill of the highlanders), traces of settlement can be observed. It is said that disease fell upon the initi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gjakova
Gjakova, ) and Đakovica ( sr-Cyrl, Ђаковица, ) is the seventh largest city of Kosovo and seat of Gjakova Municipality and Gjakova District. The city has 40,827 inhabitants, while the municipality has 94,556 inhabitants. Geographically, it is located in the south-western part of Kosovo, about halfway between the cities of Peja and Prizren. It is approximately inland from the Adriatic Sea. The city is situated some north-east of Tirana, north-west of Skopje, west of the capital Pristina, south of Belgrade and east of Podgorica. The city of Gjakova has been populated since the prehistoric era. During the Ottoman period, Gjakova served as a trading centre on the route between Shkodra and Constantinople. It was also one of the most developed trade centres at that time in the Balkans. Name The Albanian name for the city is ''Gjakova'', while the Serbian name is ''Đakovica'' with the common ''-ica'' diminutive placename suffix. There are several theories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosovo
Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Europe. It lies at the centre of the Balkans. Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008, and has since gained diplomatic recognition as a sovereign state by 101 member states of the United Nations. It is bordered by Serbia to the north and east, North Macedonia to the southeast, Albania to the southwest, and Montenegro to the west. Most of central Kosovo is dominated by the vast plains and fields of Dukagjini and Kosovo field. The Accursed Mountains and Šar Mountains rise in the southwest and southeast, respectively. Its capital and largest city is Pristina. In classical antiquity, the central tribe which emerged in the territory of Kosovo were Dardani, who formed an independent polity known as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Slavs
South Slavs are Slavic peoples who speak South Slavic languages and inhabit a contiguous region of Southeast Europe comprising the eastern Alps and the Balkan Peninsula. Geographically separated from the West Slavs and East Slavs by Austria, Hungary, Romania, and the Black Sea, the South Slavs today include Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbs, and Slovenes, respectively the main populations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. In the 20th century, the country of Yugoslavia (from Serbo-Croatian, literally meaning "South Slavia" or "South Slavdom") united majority of South Slavic peoples and lands—with the exception of Bulgarians and Bulgaria—into a single state. The Pan-Slavic concept of ''Yugoslavia'' emerged in the late 17th century Croatia, at the time party of Habsburg Monarchy, and gained prominence through the 19th-century Illyrian movement. The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cërmjan
Cërmjan (definite Albanian: ''Cërmjani'') is a village in the Gjakova municipality of Kosovo. It is located in the Dushkajë Dushkaja or Dushkajë is an ethnographic region in the Metohija, Dukagjini Plains of western Kosovo. The football club KF Dushkaja is named after the region. Much of the region corresponds to the District of Gjakova. Etymology Dushkaja's etymolog ... subregion of Dukagjin and has 1,141 inhabitants as of 2011. ''Suka e Cërmjanit'', a location in the northern part of the region is the site of fortification walls of a settlement of late antiquity in a total surface area of ca. 1.3 ha. References and Notes Sources * Villages in Gjakova {{Kosovo-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circassians
The Circassians (also referred to as Cherkess or Adyghe; Adyghe and Kabardian: Адыгэхэр, romanized: ''Adıgəxər'') are an indigenous Northwest Caucasian ethnic group and nation native to the historical country-region of Circassia in the North Caucasus. As a consequence of the Circassian genocide, which was perpetrated by the Russian Empire in the 19th century during the Russo-Circassian War, most Circassians were exiled from their homeland in Circassia to modern-day Turkey and the rest of the Middle East, where the majority of them are concentrated today. The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization estimated in the early 1990s that there are as many as 3.7 million Circassians in diaspora in over 50 countries. The Circassian language is the ancestral language of the Circassian people, and Islam has been the dominant religion among them since the 17th century. Circassia has been subject to repeated invasions since ancient times; its isolated terrain coupled wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romani People
The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani , ), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with significant concentrations in the Americas. In the English language, the Romani people are widely known by the exonym Gypsies (or Gipsies), which is considered pejorative by many Romani people due to its connotations of illegality and irregularity as well as its historical use as a racial slur. For versions (some of which are cognates) of the word in many other languages (e.g., , , it, zingaro, , and ) this perception is either very small or non-existent. At the first World Romani Congress in 1971, its attendees unanimously voted to reject the use of all exonyms for the Romani people, including ''Gypsy'', due to their aforementioned negative and stereotypical connotations. Linguistic and genetic evidence suggests that the Roma originated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montenegrins
Montenegrins ( cnr, Црногорци, Crnogorci, or ; lit. "Black Mountain People") are a South Slavic ethnic group that share a common Montenegrin culture, history, and language, identified with the country of Montenegro. Genetics According to one triple analysis – autosomal, mitochondrial and paternal — of available data from large-scale studies on Balto-Slavs and their proximal populations, the whole genome SNP data situates Montenegrins with Serbs in between two Balkan clusters. According to a 2020 autosomal marker analysis, Montenegrins are situated in-between Serbians and Kosovo Albanians. Y-DNA genetic study done in 2010 on 404 male individuals from Montenegro gave the following results: haplogroup I2a (29.7%), E-V13 (26.9%), R1b (9.4%), R1a (7.6%), I1 (6.1%), J2a1 (4.7%), J2b (4.4%), G2a (2.4%), Q (1.9%), I2b (1.7%), N (1.4%), H (1.4%), L (1.2%), and J1 (0.49%). A 2022 study on 267 samples from northeastern Montenegro found that the "most common hap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
