Opolje

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Opolje location within the Prizren municipality.

Opolje or Opoja (Albanian: Opoja; Serbian: Опоље, Opština Opolje) is northern region of the municipality of Dragaš in the southern most part of Kosovo, with Gora being the southern region of Dragaš.

Opolje comprises 19 villages with a population of 30,000 (including Dragaš). Its population is almost exclusively of Albanian ethnicity, whereas the population of the Gora region to the south includes a large Gorani minority. Only the town of Dragaš has a mixed ethnicity.

Originally Opolje and Gora were separate municipalities, but they were merged into the municipality of Dragaš by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Serbia has not officially recognized this act. Opolje is part of the District of Prizren.

A view of the Opoja region

Robert Elsie: Historical Dictionary of Kosova. Scrarecrow Press 2004, ISBN 978-0-8108-5309-6, p. 132 (restricted online copy, p. 132, at Google Books)
Janet Susan Reineck: The Past as Refuge: Gender, Migration and Ideology among Kosovo Albanians (pdf) – Dissertation, University of California (Berkeley) 1991
Municipality of Dragaš – 2008 publication of the Local Government and Reform Initiative (LGI) describing the region and development plans for it.

Coordinates: 42°03′38″N 20°38′25″E / 42.06056°N 20.64028°E / 42.06056; 20.64028

v t e Geographical regions of Kosovo

Binačko Pomoravlje Drenica Gollak / Goljak Gora Has Kollashini i Ibrit / Ibarski Kolašin Kosovo Fushë Kosovë / Kosovo Polje Rrafshi i Llapit / Malo Kosovo Dukagjin / Metohija Opoja / Opolje Podgor Rugova / Rugovo

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