Gojbulja

Gojbulja (Serbian Cyrillic: Гојбуља) or Gojbulë is a settlement in the Vushtrri municipality of Kosovo. The rural settlement lies on a cadastral area with the same name, with 692 hectares. It lies 687 m above sea level. In the 2011 census, it had 891 inhabitants.

Gojbulë Gojbulë (Albanian) Гојбуља/Gojbulja (Serbian)
Village
The village of Gojbulja, in the north of Kosovo
Gojbulë
Coordinates: 42°50′56″N 20°59′30″E
Location	Kosovo
District	District of Mitrovica
Municipality	Vushtrri
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	877
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

It was one of four Serbian villages in Vushtrri, with ca. 300 residents.^[2] But now it is majority Albanian with only 4 Serb residents. There is a local elementary school in the village.

History

Gojbulja is mentioned for the first time in an Ottoman defter (tax register) of 1455, as a village with 33 houses, and a church, dedicated to Parascheva (Sv. Petka). On the tumulus of that old church, which lies at the rural cemetery, a new Church dedicated to Parascheva was built in 1986. The church was burnt during the 2004 unrest in Kosovo.^[2] In 2006 it was desecrated and looted.^[3] The church, parish house and the people's refectory are restored, but there is much effort left for the restoration of the interior and to make it available for regular services.^[2] The village is part of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Raška and Prizren.

Demographic history

Ethnic group	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981[4]	1991
Serbs					423 (100%)
Total[5]	449	502	482	473	423	454