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Dragash
Dragash or Sharr (Albanian definite form: Dragashi or Sharri; Serbian Cyrillic: Драгаш) is a town and municipality located in the Prizren District of Kosovo. According to the 2024 census, the municipality has 28,896 inhabitants.
The Albanian name Sharri is a reference to the Sharr Mountains (in Albanian Sharr). Sharr can be traced to Albanian: sharrë meaning 'saw', denoting the jagged peaks and 'saw-toothed ridge'. The Serbian name Dragaš comes from medieval Serbian lord Constantine Dragaš.
The oldest mosque in Kosovo and in the Balkans was built in 1289 and it is called Al-Aga Mosque.
Dragash was named after a Serbian medieval noble family of the same name which served Dušan the Mighty (r. 1331-1355) and Uroš the Weak (r. 1355-1371).[citation needed] From 1877 to 1913, Dragash was part of Kosovo Vilayet in the Ottoman Empire. From 1929 to 1941, Dragash was part of the Vardar Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1941, Yugoslavia came under Axis invasion, and Dragash became a part of Albania; first under the Debar prefecture and later in 1943 transferred to the Kosovo prefecture after German takeover. From 1945 to 1992 Dragash was part of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo within the Socialist Republic of Serbia and after its disintegration part of the significantly less autonomous Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within the Republic of Serbia of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 1999. During the period between 1991 and the end of the Kosovo War in 1999, the area was claimed by the self-declared proto-state of Kosova, but it was never fully administered by its partially recognized government.
The Gora municipality and Opoja region (attached to Prizren municipality) remained separated during the Milošević period. During the Kosovo war, Albanians from Opoja fled to neighbouring Albania in cars, trucks and tractors along with others on foot who following the conflict returned home. After the war, the Gorani-majority Gora municipality was merged with the Albanian-inhabited Opoja region to form the municipality of Dragash by the United Nations Mission (UNMIK), and the new administrative unit has an Albanian majority.
The town of Dragash is the regional and municipal centre for both the Gora and Opoja regions of Dragash municipality. Following 1999, Dragash has a mixed population of Gorani, who live in the lower neighbourhood and Albanians in the upper neighbourhood that constitute the majority of inhabitants.
Apart from the multiethnic town of Dragash, the Gorani of Kosovo continue to live in villages primarily inhabited by their community in Gora, and relations with Albanians remain tense. Albanians predominantly live in the Opoja region. Mixed marriage between both communities do not occur, with the exception of a few Gorani families that have migrated to Prizren.
The territory of the Dragash municipality lies in the northern latitude of 41 52' 30" to 42 09' 03" and longitude of 20 35' 39" to 20 48' 26". The whole territory is surrounded by the Šar Mountains, then Koritnik Mountain, mountain Gjalic and Cylen in the direction of Prizren. Only one part of the territory in Prizren direction is hilly with a relatively slight slope by which this territory is connected with Prizren basin and through Prizren with the world.
Dragash
Dragash or Sharr (Albanian definite form: Dragashi or Sharri; Serbian Cyrillic: Драгаш) is a town and municipality located in the Prizren District of Kosovo. According to the 2024 census, the municipality has 28,896 inhabitants.
The Albanian name Sharri is a reference to the Sharr Mountains (in Albanian Sharr). Sharr can be traced to Albanian: sharrë meaning 'saw', denoting the jagged peaks and 'saw-toothed ridge'. The Serbian name Dragaš comes from medieval Serbian lord Constantine Dragaš.
The oldest mosque in Kosovo and in the Balkans was built in 1289 and it is called Al-Aga Mosque.
Dragash was named after a Serbian medieval noble family of the same name which served Dušan the Mighty (r. 1331-1355) and Uroš the Weak (r. 1355-1371).[citation needed] From 1877 to 1913, Dragash was part of Kosovo Vilayet in the Ottoman Empire. From 1929 to 1941, Dragash was part of the Vardar Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1941, Yugoslavia came under Axis invasion, and Dragash became a part of Albania; first under the Debar prefecture and later in 1943 transferred to the Kosovo prefecture after German takeover. From 1945 to 1992 Dragash was part of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo within the Socialist Republic of Serbia and after its disintegration part of the significantly less autonomous Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within the Republic of Serbia of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 1999. During the period between 1991 and the end of the Kosovo War in 1999, the area was claimed by the self-declared proto-state of Kosova, but it was never fully administered by its partially recognized government.
The Gora municipality and Opoja region (attached to Prizren municipality) remained separated during the Milošević period. During the Kosovo war, Albanians from Opoja fled to neighbouring Albania in cars, trucks and tractors along with others on foot who following the conflict returned home. After the war, the Gorani-majority Gora municipality was merged with the Albanian-inhabited Opoja region to form the municipality of Dragash by the United Nations Mission (UNMIK), and the new administrative unit has an Albanian majority.
The town of Dragash is the regional and municipal centre for both the Gora and Opoja regions of Dragash municipality. Following 1999, Dragash has a mixed population of Gorani, who live in the lower neighbourhood and Albanians in the upper neighbourhood that constitute the majority of inhabitants.
Apart from the multiethnic town of Dragash, the Gorani of Kosovo continue to live in villages primarily inhabited by their community in Gora, and relations with Albanians remain tense. Albanians predominantly live in the Opoja region. Mixed marriage between both communities do not occur, with the exception of a few Gorani families that have migrated to Prizren.
The territory of the Dragash municipality lies in the northern latitude of 41 52' 30" to 42 09' 03" and longitude of 20 35' 39" to 20 48' 26". The whole territory is surrounded by the Šar Mountains, then Koritnik Mountain, mountain Gjalic and Cylen in the direction of Prizren. Only one part of the territory in Prizren direction is hilly with a relatively slight slope by which this territory is connected with Prizren basin and through Prizren with the world.
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