Gjonaj, Prizren
Gjonaj (Albanian: Gjonaj, Serbian Cyrillic: Ђонај/Đonaj) is a village in Prizren municipality, Kosovo.
Gjonaj
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village | |
  Gjonaj | |
| Coordinates: 42.250550°N 20.617239°E | |
| Location |  Kosovo[lower-alpha 1] |
| District | Prizren |
| Municipality | Prizren |
| Elevation | 413 m (1,355 ft) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 4,818 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
In the place where Gjonaj is today may have stood the town of Guri i Hasit.[2] In the area in and around Gjonaj six Catholic Albanian villages were mentioned in the 1348 Stefan Dušan chrysobull.[3] A church in Gjonaj is possibly one of the oldest Roman Catholic churches in Kosovo.[4] Gjonaj may have been the birthplace of Andrea and Pjetër Bogdani.[5]
Notable People
- Andrea Bogdani, 17th century Albanian scholar and priest.
- Pjetër Bogdani, 17th century Albanian priest, scholar and patriot.
- Elvis Rexhbeçaj, footballer (born 1997)*
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
- Elsie, Robert (2015). The tribes of Albania : history, society and culture. ISBN 978-0-85773-932-2. OCLC 949885098. p. 279.
- Malcolm, Noel (1999). Kosovo : a short history. New York: HarperPerennial. ISBN 0-06-097775-2. OCLC 41603542.
And Dusan's chrysobull of 1348 for the Monastery of the Holy Archangels in Prizren mentions a total of nine Albanian katuns
- Plesch, Valerie (2015). "Muslim Kosovars rediscover their long-forgotten Roman Catholic roots".
- Elsie, Robert (2011). Historical dictionary of Kosovo. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7483-1. OCLC 694772524.
Born in Gur i Hasit near Prizren about 1630, Bogdani was educated in the traditions of the Catholic Church, to which he devoted all his energy
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