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”’Ponoshec”’ is a village in [[District of Gjakova]], Kosovo. Ponoshec is situated nearby to the villages Stubëll and [[Berjah]]. |
”’Ponoshec”’ is a village in [[District of Gjakova]], Kosovo. Ponoshec is situated nearby to the villages Stubëll and [[Berjah]]. |
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The name originates from the [[Serbian language]] derriving from the word “ponos” meaning pride, the name roughly translates to “place of pride” |
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== History == |
== History == |
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Latest revision as of 10:15, 14 September 2025
Village in Gjakova, Kosovo
Ponoshec is a village in District of Gjakova, Kosovo. Ponoshec is situated nearby to the villages Stubëll and Berjah.
In the area of Ponoshec, burial mounds from the Bronze Age-Iron Age period have been found.[2]
Ponoshec was mentioned as a village in the Ottoman defters of 1485 as Bonoshuci, the village then had nine homes. The defters indicate that Ponoshec was largely inhabited by an Albanian population, the inhabitants names were mainly Albanian mixed with Christian and Slavic elements.[3]
During the Yugoslav colonisation of Kosovo, 51 Serbo-Montenegrin colonist families were settled in Ponoshec by the Yugoslav government.[4] During World War II, Albanians destroyed the Serbian church in the village.[5]
