Medveđa

Town of Medveđa

Medveđa ( Serbian Cyrillic Медвеђа; Albanian Medvegja or Medvegjë ) is a city and capital of the same name Opština in southern Serbia halfway between Leskovac and Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. The Kosovo border is only 23 kilometers away to the southwest.

Medveđa is one of the three southern Serbian Opštini with a significant Albanian population. Here, however, they form in the totality of Opština no majority, what. Among the two other areas, Presevo and Bujanovac, is not the case The total area of ​​Opština Medveđa is 524 square kilometers. In a total of 44 villages in the municipality lived according to the 2002 census, 10,760 inhabitants, of whom 85 per cent were Serbs and 15 percent Albanian. In the 2011 census, 7,296 inhabitants were counted, and the count was boycotted by part of the Albanian population.