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.
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.
Ethnic group | style=width:3em | 1948 | style=width:3em | 1953 | style=width:3em | 1961 | style=width:3em | 1971 | style=width:3em | 1981[4] | style=width:3em | 1991 |
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style=font-weight:300 | Serbs | 423 (100%) | ||||||||||
Total[5] | 449 | 502 | 482 | 473 | 423 | 454 |