Gjylekar

Gjylekar

Gjylekar (Albanian)
Ђелекаре/Đelekare (Serbian)
Gjylekar Gjylekar (Albanian); Ђелекаре/Đelekare (Serbian);
Village
	Gjylekar
	Coordinates: 42°20′52″N 21°25′40″E / 42.34778°N 21.42778°E
Location	Kosovo
District	Gjilan
Municipality	Viti
Elevation	595 m (1,952 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	2,499
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Gjylekar (Albanian: Gjylekar, Serbian Cyrillic: Ђелекаре/Đelekare) or Skifteraj is a village in Viti municipality, Kosovo.

Geography

The village borders the Anamorava valley in the North and is situated in the Karadak mountains.

History

The ancestors of the inhabitants of the village belong to the Gashi tribe and originally settled in the Gjakova Highlands.

The Austro-Hungarian consulate in Belgrade reported that during February 1913, Serbian military forces massacred nearly all Albanian inhabitants of the village.^[2]

References

^ 2011 Kosovo Census results
^ Michailidis, Iakovos D. (2018). "Cleansing the Nation: War related Demographic Changes in Macedonia". In Boeckh, Katrin; Rutar, Sabine (eds.). The Wars of Yesterday: The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912-13. Berghahn Books. p. 331. ISBN 9781785337758.

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[1] 2011 Kosovo Census results

[Michailidis331-2] Michailidis, Iakovos D. (2018). "Cleansing the Nation: War related Demographic Changes in Macedonia". In Boeckh, Katrin; Rutar, Sabine (eds.). The Wars of Yesterday: The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912-13. Berghahn Books. p. 331. ISBN 9781785337758.

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