Klokot (
Serbian Cyrillic: Клокот) or Kllokot ( sq-definite, Kllokoti), is a
town and
municipality in the
District of Gjilan in southeastern
Kosovo. The municipality was established on 8 January 2010, the settlements having been part of the municipality of
Vitina. The seat of the municipality is in the town of Klokot.
Geography
Klokot is situated in the geographical region of
Kosovo Pomoravlje, in the southeastern part of
Kosovo.
The municipality has a cadastral area of . The municipality includes the town of Klokot and three villages:
* Klokot ( sr, Клокот, sq, Kllokot)
* Mogila ( sr, Могила, sq, Mogillë)
* Vrbovac ( sr, Врбовац, sq, Vërboc)
*
Grnčar ( sr, Грнчар, sq, Gërnçar)
History
On 16 August 1999, after the
Kosovo War, a mortar attack carried out by Albanians killed two Serb civilians in the village. There had earlier that month been two mortar attacks.
In August 2003, explosive devices planted in Klokot destroyed five Serb houses, with several injuries, including two American KFOR soldiers.
The municipality of Klokot was officially established on 8 January 2010, previously being part of the
Vitina Municipality
Viti ( sq-definite, Vitia) or Vitina ( sr-Cyrl, Витина), is a town and municipality located in the District of Gjilan in Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Viti has 4,924 inhabitants, while the municipality has 46,987 inhabita ...
.
The seat of the municipality is in Klokot. This and other new-formed
municipalities of Kosovo are not recognized by
Serbian government
The Government of Serbia ( sr, Влада Србије, Vlada Srbije), formally the Government of the Republic of Serbia ( sr, Влада Републике Србије, Vlada Republike Srbije), commonly abbreviated to Serbian Government ( sr, ...
, which still considers it part of Vitina municipality.
[Law on Territorial Organization of the Republic of Serbia](_blank)
(in Serbian), adopted on 29 December 2007, from the official web site of the Parliament of Serbi
accessed on 6 October 2013. The municipality was formed based on the
Ahtisaari plan The Ahtisaari Plan, formally the Comprehensive Proposal for the Kosovo Status Settlement (CSP), is a status settlement proposed by former President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari covering a wide range of issues related to the status of Kosovo.
Some of ...
for decentralization of Kosovo which called for the establishment of a municipality with Serbian majority within the Vitina municipality.
Between 2014 and March 2016, 30 Serb families with 124 members have left the municipality. In December 2016, two local Serb youngsters were stabbed by a group of six Albanians. The week before, a house of a Serb returnee family had been burnt down.
For 2016, the estimated budget for the municipality was €800,000.
The municipality is planned to be included in the
Community of Serb Municipalities, according to the
Brussels Agreement (2013).
Economy
The economy of the municipality of is mainly based on natural resources (mostly mineral water), tourism (two private spas), agriculture and small trade businesses. Klokot has some important hot-water springs that get up to . There are 29 registered private businesses operating in the municipality.
Public services
There are three elementary schools in the municipality with 599 students and 33 teachers, one secondary school with 147 students and 13 teachers and one kindergarten with 15 children and 2 teachers ().
Two elementary schools follow Serbian curricula, while one follows Kosovo curricula.
The St. Sava Elementary school in Klokot is attended by 250 students () and the secondary school is located in Vrbovac.
Culture
The municipality has four
Serbian Orthodox churches. The church in Grnčar was reported to have been mined and destroyed during the
Kosovo conflict, and was later fully reconstructed.
There is a mosque in village of Mogila which was not damaged during the conflict.
File:Banja Kllokot ThermomineralSpa1.JPG, ''Spa Center in Klokot''
File:Kosovo 016.jpg, ''Houses in Klokot''
File:Kosovo 005.jpg, KFOR KFOR may refer to:
* KFOR (AM), a radio station (1240 AM) licensed to Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
* KFOR-TV, a television station (channel 4 analog/27 digital) licensed to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
* KFOR-TV (Nebraska), a defunct ...
soldiers in Klokot in 1999
Politics
The first (and most recent to day) municipal elections were held on 15 November 2009.
[KIM radio]
Sve spremno za izbore u opštini Klokot-Vrbovac
(27.10.2009) Although Serbian Government did not recognize those elections, 25,4% of local voters, mostly Serbs, did participate in the elections. Serb Saša Mirković was elected mayor.
Out of 15 members of the municipal assembly, ten were elected from the Serb
Independent Liberal Party, and five from the Albanian
Democratic League of Kosovo.
In November 2017, Božidar Dejanović of the Serb List became the new mayor of Klokot.
Demographics
The municipality of Klokot has a
Serb majority and
Albanian
Albanian may refer to:
*Pertaining to Albania in Southeast Europe; in particular:
**Albanians, an ethnic group native to the Balkans
**Albanian language
**Albanian culture
**Demographics of Albania, includes other ethnic groups within the country ...
minority. The
ECMI calculated, based on 2010 and 2013 estimations, that the Klokot municipality was inhabited by 3,500 Serbs (71.23%). The town of Klokot had 1,500 residents before the
Kosovo War (1998–99), and 1,200 in 2001.
According to the 2011 census, which is unreliable due to partial boycott by Serbs and other minorities,
the town of Klokot alone had 1,064 residents, 616 Serbs (57.89%), 446 Albanians (41.91%), and 2 others; the municipality had 2,556 residents, 1,362 Albanians (53.29%), 1,177 Serbs (40.05%), 9
Romani
Romani may refer to:
Ethnicities
* Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia
** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule
* Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...
(0.35%), 1 Turk (0.04%) and 7 Others and unspecified (0.27%). The number of residents before the Kosovo War was estimated to have been 5,000 in what is today the Klokot municipality.
Annotations
See also
*
Municipalities of Kosovo
*
Cities and towns in Kosovo
*
List of populated places in Kosovo
References
Sources
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External links
Municipality of KlokotRadio Klokot*
{{Community of Serb Municipalities
Serbian enclaves in Kosovo
Populated places in Kosovo
Municipalities of Kosovo