Gojbulja
Gojbulë
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|---|---|
  Gojbulë | |
| Coordinates: 42°50′56″N 20°59′30″E / 42.84889°N 20.99167°E | |
| Location |  Kosovo[a] |
| District | Mitrovicë |
| Municipality | Vushtrri |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 588 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Gojbulja (Serbian Cyrillic: Гојбуља) is a settlement in the Vučitrn municipality in the disputed region of Kosovo. The rural settlement lies on a cadastral area with the same name, with 692 hectares. It lies 687 m above sea level. The village is exclusively inhabited by Serbs, and is one of the Serbian enclaves in Kosovo; in the 1991 census, it had 454 inhabitants.
Today, it is one of four Serbian villages in Vučitrn, with ca. 300 residents.[2] There is a local elementary school in the village.
History
Gojbulja is mentioned for the first time in an Ottoman defter (tax register) of 1455, as a village with 33 Serb houses, and a Serbian Orthodox Church, dedicated to Parascheva (Sv. Petka). On the tumulus of that old church, which lies at the rural cemetery, a new Church dedicated to Parascheva was built in 1986. The church was burnt during the 2004 unrest in Kosovo.[2] In 2006 it was desecrated and looted.[3] The church, parish house and the people's refectory are restored, but there is much effort left for the restoration of the interior and to make it available for regular services.[2] The village is part of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Raška and Prizren.
| Ethnic group | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981[4] | 1991 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serbs | 423 (100%) | |||||
| Total[5] | 449 | 502 | 482 | 473 | 423 | 454 |
Notes
References
- ^ 2011 Kosovo Census results
- ^ a b c Bishop Teodosije serves the Liturgy in Gojbulja and visits Vucitrn
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-05-01. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ 1981 Census, Kosovo Archived March 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine (Preliminary)
- ^ Kosovo censuses 1948–1991