Kabash (Albanian: Kabash, Serbian: Кабаш) is a town in the Vitina Municipality of southeast Kosovo.[2]

Kabash
Village
Kabash is located in Kosovo
Kabash
Kabash
Coordinates: 42°18′11″N 21°21′12″E / 42.302977°N 21.353306°E / 42.302977; 21.353306
Country Kosovo
DistrictGjilan
MunicipalityVitina
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Total2,324
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

History edit

The ancestors of the inhabitants of the village belong to the Kabashi tribe.

The Austro-Hungarian consulate in Belgrade reported that during February 1913, Serbian military forces executed all Albanian inhabitants of the villages of Kabash, Tërpezë, Lubisht and Gjylekar.[3]

Geography edit

The village is located in the Anamorava valley and is stiuated on the foot of the Karadak mountains.

References edit

  1. ^ 2011 Kosovo Census results
  2. ^ GNS names
  3. ^ Michailidis, Iakovos D. (2018). "Cleansing the Nation: War related Demographic Changes in Macedonia". In Boeckh, Katrin; Rutar, Sabine (eds.). The Wars of Yesterday: The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912-13. Berghahn Books. p. 331. ISBN 9781785337758.