Gjylekar
Gjylekar
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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 (2024)[1] | |
• Total | 1,509 |
| 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
[edit]The village borders the Anamorava valley in the North and is situated in the Karadak mountains.
History
[edit]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
[edit]- ↑ "ASK Data - Regjistrimi popullsisë". Agjencia e Statistikave të Kosovës (ASK). 2025. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 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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