Banja, Mališevo

Banjë
Banjë ; Banjë (Albanian); Бања/Banja (Serbian);
	Village
	Banjë Location in Kosovo
	Coordinates: 42.464385°N 20.779106°E
Location	Kosovo[lower-alpha 1]
District	Prizren
Municipality	Malishevë
Population (2011)[1]
• Total	3,639
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Banja (Albanian: Banjë;Serbian: Бања) is a village in municipality of Malisheva in Republic of Kosovo. The village has an area of 1305 ha. The village is named after a local spring with warm water that has healing properties. The toponym is of Serbian origin - banja (lit. spa).

History

It was first mentioned in 1348, in Holy Archangel charter of emperor Stephen Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia. Above the village there were two churches, which villagers called Kiša and Other Kiša. In April 2020, 20 residents of the town were in isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]

Demography

Year	Population
Demographics
1948	942
1953	1036
1961	1252
1971	1707
1981	2349
1991	3099
Ref: Federal Office of Statistics and Evidence of Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, census for 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981. and 1991.

Notable people

Fatmir Limaj[3]

Notes

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. 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 98 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 113 UN member states recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.

References

2011 Kosovo Census results
"About 20 people in the settlement "Begaj" in the village of Banje in the municipality of Malisevo have been isolated for several days, because they are positive for the coronavirus test". Kosovo Online (in Albanian). April 7, 2020. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
Andjelkovic, Natasha (July 27, 2017). "EXPRESS ON THE SITE, KOSOVO: Stupid stories about a serious matter". Ekspres (in Serbian). Retrieved September 6, 2020.

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[status-1] 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. 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 98 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 113 UN member states recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.

[2] 2011 Kosovo Census results

[3] "About 20 people in the settlement "Begaj" in the village of Banje in the municipality of Malisevo have been isolated for several days, because they are positive for the coronavirus test". Kosovo Online (in Albanian). April 7, 2020. Retrieved September 6, 2020.

[4] Andjelkovic, Natasha (July 27, 2017). "EXPRESS ON THE SITE, KOSOVO: Stupid stories about a serious matter". Ekspres (in Serbian). Retrieved September 6, 2020.