Kokaj

Kokaj (Albanian: Kokaj Serbian Cyrillic: Кокицe-Инатовце, or Kokaj/(Inatoc)) is a village located in the Gjilan district of Kosovo, Anamorava Valley of Binces. Kokaj residence comprises three neighborhoods : Lower Quarter, Quarter Upper and between their neighborhood Albanian: Gurinë.^[1]

Demographic (statistics that)

Demographic history

Ethnic group	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981[2]	1991
Albanians|Kokaj!Serbian: Inatoc-(Inatovce)					376 (100%)
Total[3]	284	250	289	342	376	70

History - Geography

• Kokaj residence comprises three neighborhoods:Turkish: "Karadak"-(Albanian: Malet e Zeza For the height of neighborhoods differ from each other. From 650 m neighborhood Lower 700 with Albanian: Gurina and Upper she 750-800 . The highest peak reaches 860 meters above sea level.Contract Turkish: "TAPY"for the land paid by Isa Bey of Skopje , while contract have made " no title " in Serbian: "Vranje" . The contract writing that is pay land from " Upper Church " in the north and the south to " jeweler " , and on the east by the river and west Albanian: "Sllubica" to Lapusnice in Kokaj river^[4]
• Kokaj at the Albanian: "Llocë" borders in the north, the Albanian: "Sllubicë" in east, south and Albanian: "Ranatoci" Albanian: "Magjere" (belonging to the municipality of Presevo) of the territory west of Albanian: "Myqybabë" and Albanian: "Buricë". Unlike Kokaj village territory stretches from east Albanian: "Sllubica" River, up the river Albanian: "Llapusha" (Lapushnica) west and Lestes Hill Albanian: "(Llocë)" in the north to the land of the so-called Albanian: "Artare" south Albanian: (Ranatoci). The total area of the territory of the village Kokaj is 402.52 ha.^[4]
• The village belongs to the local community Kokaj the Albanian: "Pogragja".^[5]
• The entire local community of Albanian: "Pogragja" has an area of 50 km² or 9.7% of the municipal territory, in 1981 accounted for 4.3% of the number of inhabitants, while after the war the participation of the population is even smaller . Municipality of Gjilan area of 253 km² and about 130,000 inhabitants (2003 estimate).^[6]
• As the township was created two centuries when the first inhabitants came from Sandzak residence of Nissus, Klaiq.^[7][8]
• Residence with Illyrian Kokaj, Kokajt gravitate towards the town of Gjilan, sanjaks Turkish: "kaza-je" center of Pristina Kosovo vilayet, so Kokaj are founders of the village (as expelled of residence Klaiq Toplica district, municipality Lebane)^[7] between two Albanian: Sllubicë and Lapusnica river that flows into the Morava River

Toponymy and patronymic and family Head Albanian: "Kokë(aj)

• Place names and surnames Geography Patronymic many toponyms of old Albanian as: Kokaj in Gjilani
• Residence Kokaj is soluble best and most righteous only by root with a head-Albanian descent and extensions of old Albanian -aj.
• That topolekse has a wide testify behalf countries: grain - Prilep village southeast, near Reshtani; Kokora - the name of Veles neighborhood; Kokran (1431) - Village name in Gjirokastra; "Kokpapaj" - Shkodra district village etc. Apparently it is a variation of the name Albanian Kok(h)a, we find medieval Albanians in order patronymic: "see.: Proino Kokkas, Andrea and Gender HeadAlbanian: "Kokë-a" (1467), Head Albanian: "Kokë-a" - family surname district Gjakova- Extension of the old Albanian -aj etc.^[9]
• In this realm (Anamorava), which extends over 103 Albanian settlements, 37 Serbian settlements and geography Patronymic many toponyms of old Albanian as: Kokaj in Gjilani. In (1467), noting, a patronymic head - family surnames in the district of Gjakova etc.
• A settlement is named Kokaj Upper Shkodra^[10] area of northern Albania, in northern Koplik^[11]

Notes and references

Notes:

a.

^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the Brussels Agreement. Kosovo has been recognised as an independent state by 108 out of 193 United Nations member states.

Notable people

• Isa Mustafa - Koka (b. 1908), farmer
• Mustafë Koka (b. 1931), Kosovar teacher
• Arben Ramadani (b. 1981) Kosovar student(Arben albanien martyr in Kokaj)
• Zejnullah Halili (b. 1945) Kosovan poetry writer
• Rrustem Rrustemi (b. 1950), Kosovan jurnalist's
• Nexhat Rrustemi, (b. 1963) Kosovan doctor medicin
• Daut Dauti (b. 1960), Kosovan publicist's and author poblisher
• Nijazi Ramadani (b. 1964), Kosovan poetry writer

Gallery

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  Bottom neighborhood in Kokaj.

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  Arben martyr memorial plates in Kokaj

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  Arber martyr memorial plates in Gjilan

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  Meadow of Lekeni in Kokaj

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  Park in spring in Kokaj

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  Upper Kokaj

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  Upper Kokaj

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  Village mosque in Kokaj

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  View from Castle Pogragja Llapusha river flow of Kokaj

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  Kokaj (Gjilan) the state of Kosovo

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  Map of Kokaj in Gjilan the state of Kosovo

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  Primar schools Liria in Kokaj

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  Gumishtë in Kokaj

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  Kokaj

References

1. Albanian: {{{1}}} Kokaj|Information on geographic expansion today.
2. 1981 Census, Kosovo (Preliminary)
3. ^Kosovo censuses 1948-1991
4. Kokaj Shtegtim në histori - Monografi për Kokajt 1842-2012, bot. Rrjedha, Gjilan, 2012, ISBN 978-9951-453-14-1
5. Dr. Jusuf Osmani, Kosovo settlements 6 , Gnjilane. School Book page 104, ISBN 9951-8547-5-3, Prishtina 2004, page 99
6. I. A, Socio- economic changes BL degree Pogragjës. Dip.works , FSHMN , Pristina 1986. ^ ^ ^Anatasije Uroševic; Gornja Morava i Izmornik,Jedinnstvo. Priština 1993. (news-edicion) ^ I.A, Socio- economic changes BL degree Pogragjës. Dip.works, FSHM, Pristina 1986 kamateriale Commons multimedia project about the article: Kokajt
7. Shtegtim në histori:(rrëfimi për Kokajt prej vitit 1842 deri në 2012):(Pilgrimage in history : (confession to Kokaj from 1842 until 2012-monography by Kokajt) / Nijazi Ramadani. - Gjilan : Albanian: "Rrjedha", 2012. - 196 p. : ilustr. colores ; 21 cm
8. Kokaj in location of Gjilan, District in Kosovo Kosovo ^Ushtima e maleve^
9. BY Toponims Anamorava B. KRYEZIU, institute Alb - Science Magazine Science of Alb - Science Albanian: "ALB_SHKENCA", president Jahja Koka, p . 528 faqe 528|geography Patronymic many toponyms of old Albanian as: Kokaj in Gjilani
10. . nona.net http://nona.net/features/map/placedetail.868727/Kokaj/. Retrieved 2015-06-26. Missing or empty |title= (help)
11. ^^"Kokaj (Albania) map". 42.2744444;19.5308333: nona.net. Retrieved 2015-04-03.

External links

1. Information location in Kokaj
2. Information geography location
3. English: "Kokaj village of restored vitality"
4. Kokaj village of restored vitality/Kokajt

Coordinates: 42°23′26″N 21°34′48″E / 42.39056°N 21.58000°E