Drenas
| Glogovac Drenas |
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| Municipality and town | |
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Albanian: Drenas / Gllogoc Serbian: Глоговац / Glogovac |
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 Glogovac
Drenas |
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| Coordinates: 42°37′N 20°54′E / 42.617°N 20.900°ECoordinates: 42°37′N 20°54′E / 42.617°N 20.900°E | |
| Country | Kosovo |
| District | District of Pristina |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Ramiz Lladrovci PDK |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 58,579 (municipality) |
| • Density | 212.5/km2 (550/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Area code(s) | +383 38 |
| Car plates | 01 |
| Website | Municipality of Glogovac |
Glogovac or Gllogoc or Drenas, is a town and municipality in the Pristina district of central Kosovo.
The municipality of Glogovac was established before World War Two as a new social, political and administrative unit.During the last eighty years, economic growth has been too low, because the regime of the anti-popular past-directed from the center attended a specific discriminatory policy, especially in economy.Despite this the municipality has taken some steps in gradual (albeit slow) to its economic, agricultural, educational, medical and industrial. Especially in the improvement of municipal development has affected the construction of network-educational system, health and service network intensifying agricultural development has become especially after the construction of the irrigation system "Iber Lepenci.", while a positive movement for the economy of Glogovac is marked by complex building "Ferronikeli"
Before the Kosovo War of 1999, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) had a strong level of influence and controlled large areas of the municipality.
During the war, many people were killed by federal forces. Mass graves were later exhumed in an attempt to conceal the massacre. See Drenica massacres.
Glogovac municipality is located in central Kosovo, between the Čičavica mountains in the east and the Drenica hills in the north and west. The main road from Pristina to Peć crosses the municipality.
At a junction at Komorani village, a smaller road extends north from the highway, passing through Glogovac town and continuing to Skenderaj There are a total of 36 villages in the municipality, including the town of Glogovac. The municipality's population prior to the 1999 bombing was approximately 58,579 made up almost entirely of Albanians, with a small number of Serbs and others only in the Glogovac town. No minorities remained in the municipality, thus Glogovac today reflects a mono-ethnic environment. Glogovac has been the cradle of Kosovo Albanian nationalist movements. Before the conflict the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) had a strong level of influence and controlled large areas of the municipality. Glogovac municipality was consequently badly affected, as was the entire Drenica region. A series of Serbian police operations resulting in armed confrontation and civilian casualties represented defining episodes in the escalation of armed conflict in Kosovo.
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