Gojbulja Explained

Gojbulë
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Kosovo
Pushpin Label Position:left
Coordinates:42.8489°N 20.9917°W
Subdivision Type:Location
Subdivision Name:Kosovo
Subdivision Type1:District
Subdivision Name1:District of Mitrovica
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:Vushtrri
Population As Of:2011
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:877
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2

Gojbulja (Serbian: Гојбуља) or Gojbulë is a settlement in the Vushtrri municipality of Kosovo. The rural settlement lies on a cadastral area with the same name, with 692 hectares. It lies 687 m above sea level. In the 2011 census, it had 891 inhabitants.

It was one of four Serbian villages in Vushtrri, with ca. 300 residents.[2] But now it is majority Albanian with only 4 Serb residents. There is a local elementary school in the village.

History

Gojbulja is mentioned for the first time in an Ottoman defter (tax register) of 1455, as a village with 33 houses, and a church, dedicated to Parascheva (Sv. Petka). On the tumulus of that old church, which lies at the rural cemetery, a new Church dedicated to Parascheva was built in 1986. The church was burnt during the 2004 unrest in Kosovo.[2] In 2006 it was desecrated and looted.[3] The church, parish house and the people's refectory are restored, but there is much effort left for the restoration of the interior and to make it available for regular services.[2] The village is part of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Raška and Prizren.

Demographic history
Ethnic groupstyle=width:3em 1948style=width:3em 1953style=width:3em 1961style=width:3em 1971style=width:3em 1981[4] style=width:3em 1991
style=font-weight:300 Serbs423 (100%)
Total[5] 449502482473423454

Notes and References

  1. http://pop-stat.mashke.org/kosovo-ethnic-loc2011.htm 2011 Kosovo Census results
  2. Web site: Bishop Teodosije serves the Liturgy in Gojbulja and visits Vucitrn . 2012-02-16 . 2015-09-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150914191254/http://www.spc.rs/eng/bishop_teodosije_serves_liturgy_gojbulja_and_visits_vucitrn . dead .
  3. Web site: Archived copy . 2012-02-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110501021625/http://kosovo.net/news/archive/2006/November_15/1.html . 2011-05-01 . dead .
  4. http://pop-stat.mashke.org/kosovo-ethnic-loc1981.htm 1981 Census, Kosovo
  5. Web site: Kosovo censuses 1948–1991 . 2012-02-16 . 2020-01-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200113162229/http://pop-stat.mashke.org/kosovo-census.htm . dead .