Gora (region)

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Former Gora municipality in Kosovo, marked in blue

Detailed map of Gora Region between Kosovo and Albania

Gora (Гора) is a geographical region in southern Kosovo, mostly inhabited by the Gorani people. Between 1992 and 1999, Gora was a municipality, and its population was 17,574 people according to 1991 census. Today, the region is part of the municipality of Dragaš.

[edit] Name

The name "Gora" is a Slavic word for "Mountain" or "Forest".

[edit] History

Gora is mentioned for the first time in 1348 in the edicts of Emperor Stefan Dushan as a Zhupa of the Serbian Empire, composed out of seven villages that Dushan gifted to his Monastery of Saint Archangel near Prizren. Its second mention is in 1452/5 in the Turkish cadestral tax censuses as the "Nachy of Gora" within the Ottoman Empire, forming part of the Ottoman province of Macedonia.

[edit] Demographics

According to 1991 census data, the population of the Gora municipality was composed of:

• Slavic Muslims or Gorani (100%)
• Albanians (0%)

[edit] External links

• Gora 1968 part 1 - Short Documentary film about Gora
• Gora 1968 part 2 - Short Documentary film about Gora

[edit] See also

• Dragaš
• Gorani