North Kosovo
North Kosovo is a Serbian enclave in Kosovo. It has over 80,000 residents, at least 98% of them are Christian Serbs. There are about 3,000 Albanians, and about 2000 Turks, Greeks, Gorans, Romas and others.[1]
Unlike the Strpce municipality which is autonomous, North Kosovo is directly run by the Government of Belgrade.
In North Kosovo, Serbian car plates are still used and the Serbian dinar is used as the official currency.
The enclave consists of the 3 municipalities of Zvecan, Leposavic, Zubin Potok (as well as part of Mitrovica. The enclave's area is 1,200 square kilometres (460 sq mi) (11% of the country's total area).[1] Lake Gorazdevac is also in the enclave.
The United Nations does not recognize Kosovo as a country because of the 1999 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244. Other world governing bodies do not recognise it as a country, either.
North Kosovo Media
Serbian barricades in Zvečan, following the 2011 border clashes
Partition of Kosovo proposed by some Serbian politicians
Ethnic map of North Kosovo (blue-majority Serbs, red-majority Albanians)
Остаци средњовековне Звечанске тврђаве.
Church in northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo.
Church of St. Vasilije Ostroški, Leposavić
снимак Радосава Стојановића
Overview of the Holy Trinity Church, Zubin Potok
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 OSCE profiles of Leposavić 18,600 including 18,000 Serbs and 200 Albaneses, Zubin Potok 14,900 "with a vast Kosovo Serb majority" with 800 Kosovo Albanians, and Zvečan "The estimated total population is 17,000 with a large Kosovo Serbian majority (approximately 16,000). Some 350 Kosovo Albanians (...)", 1 May 2006
