Banja, Mališevo

Banjë

Banjë (Albanian)
Бања/Banja (Serbian)
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 comes from Proto-Slavic *baňa, an old borrowing from Vulgar Latin *bāneum, from Latin balneum. (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. "Kisha" in the Albanian language literally translates to Church.

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

The political status of Kosovo is disputed. Having unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008, Kosovo is formally recognised as a sovereign state by 101 UN member states (with another 13 states recognising it at some point but then withdrawing their recognition) and 92 states not recognizing it, while Serbia continues to claim it as a part of its own territory.

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] The political status of Kosovo is disputed. Having unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008, Kosovo is formally recognised as a sovereign state by 101 UN member states (with another 13 states recognising it at some point but then withdrawing their recognition) and 92 states not recognizing it, while Serbia continues to claim it as a part of its own territory.

[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.