Gjylekar Explained

Gjylekar
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Kosovo
Pushpin Label Position:left
Coordinates:42.3478°N 21.4278°W
Subdivision Type:Location
Subdivision Type1:District
Subdivision Name1:Gjilan
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:Viti
Unit Pref:Metric
Elevation M:595
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:2499
Population As Of:2011
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone1:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2

Gjylekar or Skifteraj is a village in Viti municipality, Kosovo.

Geography

The village borders the Anamorava valley in the North and is situated in the Karadak mountains.

History

The ancestors of the inhabitants of the village belong to the Gashi tribe and originally settled in the Gjakova Highlands.

The Austro-Hungarian consulate in Belgrade reported that during February 1913, Serbian military forces massacred nearly all Albanian inhabitants of the village.[2]

Notes and References

  1. http://pop-stat.mashke.org/kosovo-ethnic-loc2011.htm 2011 Kosovo Census results
  2. Book: Michailidis, Iakovos D. . Cleansing the Nation: War related Demographic Changes in Macedonia . Boeckh . Katrin . Rutar . Sabine . The Wars of Yesterday: The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912-13 . 2018 . Berghahn Books . 9781785337758 . 331.