Baks
Baks is a settlement in the Skenderaj municipality in Kosovo. It lies 680–700 m over sea level. The village is exclusively inhabited by ethnic Albanians; in the 1991 census, it had 1044 inhabitants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Kosovo
- Also known as: “Baks, Skenderaj” and “Baksi”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Çirez and Likoshan.
Likoshan
Village
Likoshan, or Likošane, is a village in the Glogovac municipality of Kosovo, in the region of Drenica. It was the site of a battle between the KLA and Serbian forces, and a massacre, in February 1998 during the Kosovo War, which resulted in the death of 26 Albanians. Likoshan is situated 3½ km southeast of Baks.
Polac
Village
Polac or is a village in Kosovo. The village is exclusively inhabited by ethnic Albanians; in the 2024 census, it had 2115 inhabitants. Polac is situated 4½ km west of Baks.
Baks
- Categories: geographical feature, cadastral municipality of Serbia, and locality
- Location: Komuna e Skenderajt, Mitrovica District, Kosovo, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
42.72426° or 42° 43′ 27″ northLongitude
20.87557° or 20° 52′ 32″ eastElevation
680 metres (2,231 feet)Open location code
8GJ2PVFG+P6OpenStreetMap ID
node 3610634109OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Turkish—“Baks” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Baksi”
- Dutch: “Baks”
- French: “Baks”
- Italian: “Baks”
- Serbian: “Baks”
- Serbian: “Бакс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Baks”
- Turkish: “Baksi”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Baks”. Photo: Marko Markovic, CC BY-SA 3.0.