Djakovica

Gjakova or Gjakove ( in Albanian Gjakova or Gjakov?) is a city located in Kosovo, at 42.39? North, 20.43? East. Its name may derive from the word gjak ("blud").

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The name is also given to the surrounding administrative district, which covers an area of about 5,000 km?. Before the Kosovo War it had a population of about 131,700. Kosovo Albanians constituted 93 per cent of this community. The post-war population is now estimated to be about 115,000 people. http://www.sok-kosovo.org/pdf/population/Kosovo_and_its_population.pdf

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Albanian: The word Albanian can mean:...

Kosovo: Kosovo and Metohia (Serbian: ?????? ? ???????? / Kosovo i Metohija, Albanian: Kosov? / Kosova), in English most often called just Kosovo, is a province of Serbia. It is the subject of an ongoing territorial dispute between the Serbian government and the province's majority ethnic Albanian population...

Blud: Blud, one of the Slavic fairies in Slavic mythology, is an evil-deity that causes disorientation and leads a person aimlessly around and round....