Beci is a village in the

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 ...

subregion in the

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Municipality of

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. It is almost exclusively inhabited by ethnic

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, who form the near-absolute majority of the village's population.

Etymology

It is believed that the toponym is derived from the

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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

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 The Sanjak of Scutari or Sanjak of Shkodra ( sq, Sanxhaku i Shkodrës; sr, Скадарски санџак; tr, İskenderiye Sancağı or ''İşkodra Sancağı'') was one of the sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire. It was established after the Otto ...

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 traditionally belonged to a single Albanian tribal brotherhood around 300 years ago - the Mërturi- Berisha. The village was traditionally divided into 4 neighbourhoods - the neighbourhoods of the Biblekët, Ndreajt, Salcët and Tetajt. The Muslim and Catholic Albanians here belong to the same brotherhood. There is also a family that hails from the

Krasniqi Krasniqi is a historical Albanian tribe and region in the Accursed Mountains in northeastern Albania, bordering Kosovo. The region lies within the Tropojë District and is part of a wider area between Albania and Kosovo that is historically k ...

tribe and one that hails from the Thaçi tribe.

Notes

References

{{Reflist Villages in Gjakova