Opolje

Opoja ( Serbian Cyrillic Опоље, Opolje ) is forming the northern part of the municipality of Dragash in the far south of Kosovo.

Opoja bordered to the north by the municipality of Prizren and on the south by Gora, the southern part of the greater community Dragash. To the west it borders with Albania and Macedonia to the east.

Opoja comprises 21 villages with a total of about 23,000 inhabitants. The inhabitants are almost all Albanians, while Goran is inhabited almost exclusively by the Gorani. In Dragash, the administrative center of the municipality, which lies exactly on the border between the two regions, both ethnicities mix.

Swell

  • Robert Elsie: Historical Dictionary of Kosova. Scrarecrow Press 2004, ISBN 9780810853096, p.132 (restricted online version in the Google Book Search USA)
  • Stefan Mattern: Kosova - situation of minorities ( pdf). Swiss Refugee Council, April 16, 2002
  • Stephan Müller: report on the situation of Gorani ( Goranci ) in Kosovo, with particular emphasis on the situation of former members of the Yugoslav Army ( pdf, 94 kB)
  • Susan Janet Reineck: The Past as Refuge: Gender, Migration and Ideology among Kosovo Albanians (pdf, 11.2 MB ) - Dissertation, University of California ( Berkeley ) 1991

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  • Location in Kosovo
  • Dragash
Serbian language Dragaš Gorani people
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