Baks, Skenderaj

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Baks
Village
Baks is located in Kosovo
Baks
Baks
Location in Kosovo
Coordinates: 42°43′09″N 20°52′36″E / 42.71917°N 20.87667°E / 42.71917; 20.87667Coordinates: 42°43′09″N 20°52′36″E / 42.71917°N 20.87667°E / 42.71917; 20.87667
Location Kosovo[a]
DistrictMitrovica
MunicipalitySkenderaj
Elevation
2,300 ft (700 m)
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Total991
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code(s)+381 290
Car plates02

Baks is a settlement in the Skenderaj municipality in Kosovo. It lies 680–700 m over sea level.[2] The village is exclusively inhabited by ethnic Albanians; in the 1991 census, it had 1044 inhabitants.

Geography[]

It lies in the hilly region of Drenica, on the western slopes of Çiçavica, six km southeast from Skenderaj.[3]

History[]

The ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) had by 1997 controlled large parts of the Drenica region to save the Albanian population from Serbian forces. The nearby. village of was the home to KLA leader Adem Jashari, who was killed together with most of his family in the Attack on Prekaz.[4] During the Kosovo War, in late March 1999, Serb military forces undertook an offensive throughout Skenderaj.[5] Villages were shelled and inhabitants of several villages, including Baks, fled to .[5] Men from the village were captured and some were killed by Serb police during operations in Drenas and Skenderaj.[6] In 2017, Bekim Jashari built houses for financially weak people from Baks.

Demographic history
Ethnic group 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981[7] 1991
Albanians 881
Others 1
Total[8] 732 587 628 688 882 1044

Economy[]

The village is primarily of livestock farming.[2]

Notes[]

  1. ^ The political status of Kosovo is disputed. Having unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008, it is formally recognised as an independent state by 97 UN member states (with another 15 recognising it at some point but then withdrawing recognition), while Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory.

References[]

  1. ^ 2011 Kosovo Census results
  2. ^ a b Srboljub Đ Stamenković (2002). Географска енциклопедија населjа Србије: С-Ш. Географски факултет. p. 73. ISBN 978-86-82657-21-7. Бакс
  3. ^ Dimitrije M. Kalezić (2002). Enciklopedija pravoslavlja. Savremena administracija. p. 126. ISBN 9788638706716. БАКС. У данашььем арбанашком, некада чисто срп- ском селу, на западним падинама планине Чичавице, шест километара неточно од Србице. локалитети Црква и Црквени До докази су за то да су ту посто^али стари фиски храмови.
  4. ^ Krieger 2001, p. 93.
  5. ^ a b Krieger 2001, p. 56.
  6. ^ Krieger 2001, p. 58.
  7. ^ Census, Kosovo (Preliminary)
  8. ^
    Kosovo cen Archived 2020-01-13 at the Wayback Machine suses 1948–1991 Archived 2020-01-13 at the Wayback Machine

• Demographic development in Baks

Sources[]

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