Kosovo
Gjakova District
Orahovac

Krushë e Madhe

Krushë e Madhe is a village in the municipality of of western . It was a stronghold of the Kosovo Liberation Army during the Kosovo War. On 26 March 1999, the Yugoslav Army massacred over a hundred unarmed Kosovo Albanian civilians in the village in retaliation for the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
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  • Type: Village with 4,440 residents
  • Description: village in Kosovo
  • Also known as: “Velika Kruša”
  • Postal code: 21080

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Krajk and Romajë.

Village
is a village in Prizren, Kosovo. is situated nearby to the hamlet Basarinë and the village Pirane. It was mentioned as a village in the Ottoman defter of 1571 and was inhabited by an Albanian population. is situated 4½ km southeast of Krushë e Madhe.

Village
is a village in the municipality of . It has 2,747 inhabitants as of 2011. The area of is the site of a multi-layered settlement of the pre-Roman Iron Age, the Roman era, and the medieval era. is situated 4½ km southwest of Krushë e Madhe.

Village
or Zjum is a village in the Prizren Municipality of southwestern . is situated 5 km south of Krushë e Madhe.

Krushë e Madhe

Latitude
42.31891° or 42° 19′ 8″ north
Longitude
20.63567° or 20° 38′ 8″ east
Population
4,440
Open location code
8GJ28J9P+H7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3023405416
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Wiki­data ID
Q12749630
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Turkish—“Krushë e Madhe” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Krusha e Madhe”
  • Albanian: “Krushë e Madhe”
  • Dutch: “Krushë e Madhe”
  • Dutch: “Velika Kruša”
  • French: “Krushë e Madhe”
  • French: “Velika Kruša”
  • German: “Krusha e Madhe”
  • German: “Krushë e Madhe”
  • German: “Velika Kruša”
  • Italian: “Velika Kruša”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Krushë e Madhe”
  • Persian: “ولیکا کروزا”
  • Polish: “Krushë e Madhe”
  • Russian: “Велика Круша”
  • Serbian: “Velika Kruša”
  • Serbian: “Велика Круша”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Velika Kruša”
  • Swedish: “Velika Kruša”
  • Turkish: “Büyük Kruşa”

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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 “Krushë e Madhe”. Photo: Marko Markovic, CC BY-SA 3.0.