Novo Brdo

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Novobërdë
Novobërda
Ново Брдо
Novo Brdo
Coat of Arms
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Location in Kosovo

General Information
Mayor	Tihomir Bogdanović
Land area	?
Altitude	?
Population (August 2003)	3,751
Population density (2006)	?
Coordinates	42.37°N 21.25°E
Postal code:
Area code	?
Time zone	UTC+1
Website	n/a

Novo Brdo/Ново Брдо (Serbian) or Novobërda/Novobërdë (Albanian) is a town and municipality in Kosovo (under UN administration, formally part of Serbia). According to 1991 census, the municipality of Novo Brdo had a population of 4,611 people. The name of the town means "New Hill" in English.

1 History
2 Demographics
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

Novo Brdo was a famous mining city in medieval times. The site was predominantly used for mining silver.

Novo Brdo (in Latin documents written as "Novaberd", "Novus Mons" or "Novamonte"; and in the Sasi's own documents as "Nyeuberghe") was mentioned in the historical documents as early as 1326.

Novo Brdo was a metropolis at the time, with a huge Serbian medievial fortress built on the top of an extinct volcano cone (the remains of which can be visited today), and residential sections sprawling all around. The population was estimated to exceed 10,000 during that time. There were mines and smelting furnaces for iron, lead, gold and silver ores. Novo Brdo silver is known by its argentum glame (an alloy of silver with 1/6-1/3 gold). The mines of Novo Brdo in 1450 were producing about 6,000 kg of silver per year.Turks occuped town 1.june 1455.This event described Konstantin Mihailović from Ostrovica,near Novo Brdo.

[edit] Demographics

In 1991, the population of the municipality was composed of:

Serbs and Montenegrins (58.12%)
Albanians (40.01%)

Year/Population	Albanians	%	Serbs	%	Other	%	Total
Ethnic Composition, Including IDPs
1991	5,802	67.8	2,676	31.3	75	0.9	8,553
1998	2,158	43.9	2,680	54.4	86	1.7	4,924
Aug 2003	2,300	61.3	1,400	37.3	51	0.1	3,751
Source: 1991 census figure from Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Institute of Statistics; 1998 and current figures from the Kosovo Village List, GIS Unit, UNHCR Field Office Prishtinë/Priština, UNMIK Gjilan/Gnjilane, August 2003 (uu-official) It is noted that the 1991 census was highly politicised and is thus unreliable. Ref.:OSCE [1]