Gojbulja

Village in District of Mitrovica, Kosovo

Gojbulë 42°50′56″N 20°59′30″E / 42.84889°N 20.99167°E / 42.84889; 20.99167
Location	Kosovo
District	District of Mitrovica
Municipality	Vučitrn
Population (2011)^[1]
• Total	588
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

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. The village is exclusively inhabited by Serbs, and is one of the Serbian enclaves in Kosovo; in the 1991 census, it had 454 inhabitants.

Today, it is one of four Serbian villages in Vushtrri, with ca. 300 residents.^[2] 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

References

^ 2011 Kosovo Census results
^ ^a ^b ^c "Bishop Teodosije serves the Liturgy in Gojbulja and visits Vucitrn". Archived from the original on 2015-09-14. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-05-01. Retrieved 2012-02-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ 1981 Census, Kosovo Archived March 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine (Preliminary)
^ "Kosovo censuses 1948–1991". Archived from the original on 2020-01-13. Retrieved 2012-02-16.