Gjylekar
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Gjylekar
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| Location | File:Flag of Kosovo.svg Kosovo |
| District | Gjilan |
| Municipality | Viti |
| Elevation | 595 m (1,952 ft) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• 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
[edit | edit source]The village borders the Anamorava valley in the North and is situated in the Karadak mountains.
History
[edit | edit source]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 | edit source]- ^ 2011 Kosovo Census results
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