Baks, Skenderaj

Baks is a settlement in the Skenderaj municipality in Kosovo.[a] It lies 680–700 m over sea level.[2] The village is exclusively inhabited by ethnic Albanians; in the 1991 census, it had 1044 inhabitants.

Baks
Village
Baks
Location in Kosovo
Coordinates: 42°43′09″N 20°52′36″E
Location Kosovo[lower-alpha 1]
DistrictMitrovicë
MunicipalitySkënderaj
Elevation
2,300 ft (700 m)
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Total991
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code(s)+381 290
Car plates02

Geography

It lies in the hilly region of Drenica, on the western slopes of Çiçavica, six km southeast from Skenderaj.[3]

History

The ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) had by 1997 controlled large parts of the Drenica region to save the Albanian population from Serbian forces. The nearby. village of Prekaz was the home to KLA leader Adem Jashari, who was killed together with most of his family in the Attack on Prekaz.[4] During the Kosovo War, in late March 1999, Serb military forces undertook an offensive throughout Skenderaj.[5] Villages were shelled and inhabitants of several villages, including Baks, fled to Çirez.[5] Men from the village were captured and some were killed by Serb police during operations in Drenas and Skenderaj.[6] In 2017, Bekim Jashari built houses for financially weak people from Baks.

Demographic history
Ethnic group 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981[7] 1991
Albanians 881
Others 1
Total[8] 732 587 628 688 882 1044

Economy

The village is primarily of livestock farming.[2]

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 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognized as an independent state by 97 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 112 UN member states recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.

References
  1. 2011 Kosovo Census results
  2. Srboljub Đ Stamenković (2002). Географска енциклопедија населjа Србије: С-Ш. Географски факултет. p. 73. ISBN 978-86-82657-21-7. Бакс
  3. Dimitrije M. Kalezić (2002). Enciklopedija pravoslavlja. Savremena administracija. p. 126. БАКС. У данашььем арбанашком, некада чисто срп- ском селу, на западним падинама планине Чичавице, шест километара неточно од Србице. локалитети Црква и Црквени До докази су за то да су ту посто^али стари фиски храмови.
  4. Krieger 2001, p. 93.
  5. Krieger 2001, p. 56.
  6. Krieger 2001, p. 58.
  7. Census, Kosovo (Preliminary)

  8. Kosovo cen suses 1948–1991

• Demographic development in Baks

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