Mališevo
Encyclopedia
Mališevo is a town and municipality
in the Prizren District
of central Kosovo
. The town itself has approximately 2,300 inhabitants while the municipality has an estimated 54,664 inhabitants.
and had a long history of successful resistance against the Ottomans. The town was a stronghold for the ethnically Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army
during the conflict in Kosovo
in 1998/1999. The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
(UNMIK) formally re-established the municipality of Malisheve in July 2000. During the war, a number of atrocities were committed by both Albanian and Yugoslav forces. One such incident occurred in Malisheve, the execution of no fewer than seven Serbian men, named the Mališevo Massacre. The UN
-run Office on Missing Persons and Forensics began the excavations at the site in May 2005.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in the Prizren District
Prizren District
The Prizren District was a district in Kosovo between 1990 and 1999. It was located in the southern part of Kosovo i Metohija. It had a population of 376,085. Seat of the District was in the city of Prizren...
of central Kosovo
Kosovo
Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...
. The town itself has approximately 2,300 inhabitants while the municipality has an estimated 54,664 inhabitants.
History
The area was once under the Bajrakut of OštrozubitBajraku
Bajraku was a military unit and later an administrative land division created in some provinces of historical Albania which also included what is today Kosovo. It was a patriarchal organization, similar to a commune or small district today....
and had a long history of successful resistance against the Ottomans. The town was a stronghold for the ethnically Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army
Kosovo Liberation Army
The Kosovo Liberation Army or KLA was a Kosovar Albanian paramilitary organization which sought the separation of Kosovo from Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the 1990s....
during the conflict in Kosovo
Kosovo War
The term Kosovo War or Kosovo conflict was two sequential, and at times parallel, armed conflicts in Kosovo province, then part of FR Yugoslav Republic of Serbia; from early 1998 to 1999, there was an armed conflict initiated by the ethnic Albanian "Kosovo Liberation Army" , who sought independence...
in 1998/1999. The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo or UNMIK is the interim civilian administration in Kosovo, under the authority of the United Nations. The mission was established on 10 June 1999 by Security Council Resolution 1244...
(UNMIK) formally re-established the municipality of Malisheve in July 2000. During the war, a number of atrocities were committed by both Albanian and Yugoslav forces. One such incident occurred in Malisheve, the execution of no fewer than seven Serbian men, named the Mališevo Massacre. The UN
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
-run Office on Missing Persons and Forensics began the excavations at the site in May 2005.
Demographics
| Ethnic Composition, Including IDPs | |||||||||
| Year/Population | Albanians | % | Roma | % | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1999 | 60,411 | N/A | 45 | 60,456 | |||||
| February 2005 | 65,500 | 99.9 | 20 | 0.01 | App. 65,520 | ||||
| Ref: OSCE) | |||||||||