| Parteš | |
| Native Name: | Партеш |
| Native Name Lang: | sq |
| Settlement Type: | Town and municipality |
| Image Blank Emblem: | Stema e Komunës Partesh.svg |
| Blank Emblem Type: | Emblem |
| Pushpin Map: | Kosovo#Europe |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Kosovo |
| Subdivision Type1: | District |
| Subdivision Name1: | District of Gjilan |
| Subdivision Type2: | Settlements |
| Subdivision Name2: | 3 |
| Leader Title: | Provisional president |
| Leader Name: | Dragan Petković |
| Leader Party: | GIS |
| Established Title: | Municipality status |
| Established Date: | 19 August 2010 |
| Area Total Km2: | 18.3 |
| Population As Of: | 2013 |
| Population Total: | 1,738 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Coordinates: | 42.4019°N 21.4336°W |
| Elevation M: | 473 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 38251 |
| Registration Plate Type: | Vehicle registration |
| Registration Plate: | 06 |
Parteš (Serbian Cyrillic: Партеш) or Partesh, is a town and municipality located in the Gjilan District of Kosovo. The municipality was established on 19 August 2010. It is inhabited by Serbs, and as of 2013, it has an estimated population of 5,300 inhabitants.
The municipality consists of town of Parteš and two villages: Pasjane and Donja Budriga.
The settlements of Parteš, Donja Budriga and Pasjane are inhabited by ethnic Serbs. There are four Serbian Orthodox churches within the municipality. There are pilgrimage sites at medieval religious ruins.
The economy is based mainly on dairy production and small trade.
There are two primary schools and five secondary schools within the municipality.
The municipality of Parteš is inhabited by ethnic Serbs. The ECMI calculated, based on 2010 and 2013 estimations, that the Parteš municipality was inhabited by 5,300 Serbs (99.96%).
According to the 2011 census, which is unreliable due to partial boycott by Serbs and other minorities,[1] the settlement of Parteš alone had 478 residents, all of whom were Serbs (100%); the Parteš municipality had 1,787 residents, 1,785 of whom were Serbs (99.9%). The municipality of Parteš includes the town and two villages. It is one of the Serbian enclaves in Kosovo (located outside Serb-inhabited North Kosovo), alongside five other municipalities: Gračanica, Štrpce, Novo Brdo, Ranilug and Klokot. After the Brussels Agreement of 2013, representatives of Serbia and Kosovo agreed that the municipality was to become part of the Community of Serb Municipalities.[2]
| Settlement | style=width:3em | 1948 | style=width:3em | 1953 | style=width:3em | 1961 | style=width:3em | 1971 | style=width:3em | 1981 | style=width:3em | 1991 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style=font-weight:300 | Donja Budriga | 617 | 689 | 801 | 983 | 1.018 | 1.178 | |||||
| style=font-weight:300 | Parteš | 775 | 878 | 1.009 | 1.203 | 1.274 | 1.513 | |||||
| style=font-weight:300 | Pasjane | 1.325 | 1.448 | 1.508 | 1.845 | 1.974 | 2.030 | |||||
| Total | 2.717 | 3.015 | 3.318 | 4.031 | 4.266 | 4.721 |
The municipality in planned to be included in the Community of Serb Municipalities, according to the 2013 Brussels Agreement.
The 2013 local elections, held in November, saw 2,770 voters, 63.8% of the total number of registered voters in the Parteš municipality (4,342) according to the last elections. The elections saw the following results in the local government, the municipal assembly which has 15 seats: