Gjakova or Gjakovë (Albanian) or Đakovica/Ђаковица (Serbian) is a city located in Kosovo, at 42.39° North, 20.43° East. Its name derives from the Albanian word gjak ("blood"). Image File history File links Download high resolution version (665x774, 29 KB) Gjakovë map, Kosova 2006 File links The following pages link to this file: Đakovica ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Altitude is the elevation of an object from a known level or datum. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ... A postal code (known in various countries as a post code, postcode, or ZIP code) is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. ... A telephone numbering plan is a system that allows subscribers to make and receive telephone calls across long distances. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ... This page as shown in the aol 9. ... The Serbian language is one of the standard versions of the Å tokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and by Serbs everywhere. ... For other uses, see Kosovo (disambiguation). ... Human blood smear: a - erythrocytes; b - neutrophil; c - eosinophil; d - lymphocyte. ...

The name is also given to the surrounding administrative district, which covers an area of about 521 km², including the town of Gjakova, and 84 villages. Before the Kosovo War it had a population of about 145,000. Kosovo Albanians constituted 93 % of this community. The post-war population is now estimated to be about 150,000 people, out of which 90,000 live in the town, and the rest, 60,000 inhabitants reside in the surrounding villages. [2] The term Kosovo War or Kosovo Conflict is often used to describe two sequential and at times parallel armed conflicts (a civil war followed by an international war) in the southern Serbian province called Kosovo (officially Kosovo and Metohia), part of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ...

Gjakova/Djakovica in the Kosovo War

Gjakova town had a pre-war population estimated by the OSCE to be 93% Kosovo Albanians and 7% non-majority communities, including some 3,000 Kosovo Serbs, who mostly lived in the main town[3]. The town was extremely badly affected by the war, suffering great physical destruction and large-scale human losses and rights abuses. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is an international organization for security. ...

Yugoslav units stationed in and near the town were attacked on several occasions by NATO forces. In one incident, NATO aircraft misidentified a convoy of Albanian refugees and attacked it, killing dozens of civilians. NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for collective security established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, DC, on 4 April 1949. ...

Actions on the ground had a devastating effect on the town. According to the ICTY, OSCE, and international human rights organisations, about 75% of the population was forcibly expelled from the town by Serbian police and paramilitaries as well as Yugoslav forces, with many civilians being killed in the process. [4][5] Large areas of the town were destroyed, chiefly through arson and looting but also in the course of localised fighting between government security forces and members of the Kosovo Liberation Army. The actions of the government forces in Gjakova formed a major part of the United Nations war crimes indictment of the then-President Slobodan Milošević. [6] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is a body of the United Nations established to prosecute war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. ... Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës. ... United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Милошевић, pronounced []); (20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia. ...

During the Kosovo war this municipality was heavily affected and many atrocities were committed against the local Albanian population. The number of missing people from this municipality is among the highest in all Kosovo, numbering over 300. In the course of the current year several dozens of corpses have been identified and returned to their families, though it still remain a relatively small number compared to the figures of those who are still missing. As a result, any reference to the return of the former Kosovo Serb population remains highly sensitive. [7] The term Kosovo War or Kosovo Conflict is often used to describe two sequential and at times parallel armed conflicts (a civil war followed by an international war) in the southern Serbian province called Kosovo (officially Kosovo and Metohia), part of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ...

Gjakova is one of the most damaged cities in Kosovo, and where many people had been murdered by the Serbian paramilitary, police and military forces. Mostly men of different ages were separated from their families and sent in unknown directions^{[citation needed]}. Many bodies have been recovered from mass graves all around Kosovo^{[citation needed]}, and even Serbia itself^{[citation needed]}. There are still many more missing, and never been found. For other uses, see Kosovo (disambiguation). ...

Most of the Albanians population returned following the end of the war. Albanians and other communities such as Egyptians and Roma, were successful in building free market system and new democratic institutions. In 2001 occurred free democratic election were majority leaded LDK. People from Gjakova are known to be very open minded and advanced. There were thousands of new stores rebuild and opened. Qarshia e Madhe is a good example were hundreds of stores destroyed during the war; in 2001 were build again as there were before the war. New media were launched such as Radio Gjakova, Radio Pandora, Radio Amadeus, TV Syri. Commencement of factory was influenced by local business. IMN brick factory was one of them commenced for the emergency need of population. Business were booming, foreigner organizations were good supporter and mainly their activities are based on free market trade.

References

1. ^ OSCE municipal profile Gjakovë/Đakovica

External links

• SOK Kosovo and its population