Baks, Skenderaj

Baks
Baks
Village
	Baks Location in Kosovo
	Coordinates: 42°43′09″N 20°52′36″E
Location	Kosovo
District	Mitrovica
Municipality	Skenderaj
Elevation	2,300 ft (700 m)
Population (2011)[1]
• Total	991
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	+381 290
Car plates	02

Baks is a settlement in the Skenderaj municipality in Kosovo. It lies 680–700 m over sea level.[2] The village is exclusively inhabited by ethnic Albanians; in the 1991 census, it had 1044 inhabitants.

Geography

It lies in the hilly region of Drenica, on the western slopes of Çiçavica, six km southeast from Skenderaj.[3]

History

The ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) had by 1997 controlled large parts of the Drenica region to save the Albanian population from Serbian forces. The nearby. village of Prekaz was the home to KLA leader Adem Jashari, who was killed together with most of his family in the Attack on Prekaz.[4] During the Kosovo War, in late March 1999, Serb military forces undertook an offensive throughout Skenderaj.[5] Villages were shelled and inhabitants of several villages, including Baks, fled to Çirez.[5] Men from the village were captured and some were killed by Serb police during operations in Drenas and Skenderaj.[6] In 2017, Bekim Jashari built houses for financially weak people from Baks.

Demographic history
Ethnic group	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981[7]	1991
Albanians					881
Others					1
Total[8]	732	587	628	688	882	1044

Economy

The village is primarily of livestock farming.[2]

References

2011 Kosovo Census results
Srboljub Đ Stamenković (2002). Географска енциклопедија населjа Србије: С-Ш. Географски факултет. p. 73. ISBN 978-86-82657-21-7. Бакс
Dimitrije M. Kalezić (2002). Enciklopedija pravoslavlja. Savremena administracija. p. 126. ISBN 9788638706716. БАКС. У данашььем арбанашком, некада чисто срп- ском селу, на западним падинама планине Чичавице, шест километара неточно од Србице. локалитети Црква и Црквени До докази су за то да су ту посто^али стари фиски храмови.
Krieger 2001, p. 93.
Krieger 2001, p. 56.
Krieger 2001, p. 58.
Census, Kosovo Archived 2012-03-17 at the Wayback Machine (Preliminary)
Kosovo cen Archived 2020-01-13 at the Wayback Machine suses 1948–1991 Archived 2020-01-13 at the Wayback Machine

• Demographic development in Baks

Sources

Krieger, Heike (2001). The Kosovo Conflict and International Law: An Analytical Documentation 1974-1999. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-80071-6.
Human Rights Watch Warcrimes in Kosovo
Geographic Baks

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[1] 2011 Kosovo Census results

[Stamenković2002-2] Srboljub Đ Stamenković (2002). Географска енциклопедија населjа Србије: С-Ш. Географски факултет. p. 73. ISBN 978-86-82657-21-7. Бакс

[Kalezić2002-3] Dimitrije M. Kalezić (2002). Enciklopedija pravoslavlja. Savremena administracija. p. 126. ISBN 9788638706716. БАКС. У данашььем арбанашком, некада чисто срп- ском селу, на западним падинама планине Чичавице, шест километара неточно од Србице. локалитети Црква и Црквени До докази су за то да су ту посто^али стари фиски храмови.

[FOOTNOTEKrieger200193-4] Krieger 2001, p. 93.

[FOOTNOTEKrieger200156-5] Krieger 2001, p. 56.

[FOOTNOTEKrieger200158-6] Krieger 2001, p. 58.

[7] Census, Kosovo Archived 2012-03-17 at the Wayback Machine (Preliminary)

[8] Kosovo cen Archived 2020-01-13 at the Wayback Machine suses 1948–1991 Archived 2020-01-13 at the Wayback Machine