Shalë, Lipjan
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Shalë
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Village | |
  Shalë | |
| Coordinates: 42°30′09″N 20°55′15″E / 42.50250°N 20.92083°E | |
| Location |  Kosovo |
| District | Prishtinë |
| Municipality | Lipjan |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 2,517 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Shalë (Template:Lang-sq, Serbian Cyrillic: Седларе/Sedlare) is a village in the Lipjan municipality in Kosovo. The village of Shalë (formerly Sedllar) is registered in the registers of the Kosovo Vilayet in 1820 and 1893.
Geography
Shalë is located between the Pristina-Prizren and Pristina-Peja roadaxes, 26 kilometers from the municipality of Lipjan and 35 kilometers from Pristina, the capital of the Republic of Kosovo. The village lies on the plain of the Drenica River plain.
The village covers an area of 1076 hectares, 18 acres, and 35 square meters. Its highest point is Bajrak at 873 meters above sea level, while the lowest is at Ura e Ali Rexha at 570 meters.
Characteristics
Shalë has mountains with two high slopes from the western side, and in the middle is the road that leads to Llapushë. Until 1990/1998, there were centuries-old oaks in the forest. Every neighborhood of Shalë had a watermill in the Shalë Gorge. In the 1990s, they got water from the mouths of the gorge. The well was open until the 1970s.
| Population History[2] | ||
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| Year | Pop. | -+% |
| 1948 | 733 | - |
| 1953 | 820 | +11.9% |
| 1961 | 972 | +18.5% |
| 1971 | 1,245 | +28.1% |
| 1981 | 1,735 | +39.4% |
| 1991 | 2,294 | +32.2% |
| 2011 | 2,517 | +9.7% |
Structures
The village has four places with cemeteries: the mosque, Karpuzë, at the end of the village and at the entrance of the village. Plague graves can be found near the end of the village. The plague cemetery in Shalë, which was found on the northern side of the village, was separated from other village cemeteries. There has been a cross discovered near the tombstone.
Blinaja (National Park) are the mountains to the east of Shalë. Blinaja in Illyrian times had the name Lypenida, an Illyrian toponym. With the Serbian annexation of the area at the conclusion of the Balkan Wars, the mountain was renamed Blinaja. The park has lakes. In 2009, it was declared a National Park by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development.
Attacks
In 1912, Isa Boletini and his army spent one night in Shalë. He slept in the ode of Banush Hoxha, and the soldiers in other Shalë odes.
In 1916, Liman Bajrami was killed in Sofia, Bulgaria, in a battle fought during World War I.
In 1917, in the battle of Kerçova that took place against the Bulgarian government, dozens of shaljans participated. Some citizens of Shalëja were considered missing.
In 1920, 20 houses were burned in Shalë by the gendarmerie and the army of Serbia.
Before the Second World War, Shalë was a municipal unit, and Banush Hoxha, in the 1930s, was the head of the municipality in Shalë. In a meeting held in Skopje by Nikolla Pashiqi, who asked the deputies to sign the agreement of the Academy of Serbia related to Turkey, which provided for the migration of Albanians to Turkey, Rama, Ahmeti dha Banushi did not sign the agreement. Rama, at the entrance to the villages of Bllacë and Ahmet, was killed by the Serbian gendarmerie. Banushi later left the country.
In 1943, in the battle of Prapashtica (against the Bulgarians), Nuredin Sherif was killed and buried by Shalë's compatriots in the village of Prapashticë.
In 1945, Shyqeri Qerkin Shalë, killed in Drenica, was buried in the Shalë cemetery. Hysen Banush Hoxha, killed in Llap, was also buried in the village cemetery in the same year.
References
- ^ "Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011". Mashke. Archived from the original on August 7, 2024. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
- ^ "Kosovo". pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
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