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Koći

Field	Value
official_name	Koje / Koći
native_name	Коћи
Kojë
settlement_type	Village
pushpin_map	Montenegro
pushpin_label_position	left
pushpin_map_caption	Location within Montenegro
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1	Municipality
subdivision_name1	[[File:Tuzi Flag.svg	20px]] Tuzi
population_as_of	2011
population_total	54
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
coordinates
area_code_type	Area code
area_code	+382 20
blank1_info_sec1	PG
blank1_name_sec1	Car plates

Kojë

Koći (Коћи; ) is a village in the municipality of Tuzi, Montenegro, near the border with Albania. The village is inhabited by ethnic Albanians of the Roman Catholic faith.

Geography

Koći lies east of the capital Podgorica, north of Ubli. Koći is a village in Koja e Kuçit, eastern Montenegro, bordering Albania.

Along with Albanian-inhabited Hoti and Gruda, Koći is, from Albanian point of view, part of the wider Malësia-region (Malesija).

History

At the beginning of the Montenegrin–Ottoman War, the Kuči rose up against the Ottomans, who started dispatching soldiers at the frontier, including at Koći.

According to Spiridon Gopčević, the area of Koći included 10 km2 and 550 inhabitants, out of which 480 were Catholics, 40 Orthodox, and 25 Muslims (1877).

20th century

Traveler Arso Milatović (who wrote a travel book on his experiences 1935–45) stayed at Koći and described it as "a village neighbouring Malesia, misplaced and rugged, which a horse can't reach, thus donkeys and mules walk the rocks as squirrels on branches". The inhabitants were Catholics, and the village had a church and priest, fra Marko. The village population has since massively decreased.

Ethnic group	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991	2003	2011	Albanians	Montenegrins	Yugoslavs	Undeclared/
Others	Total	url=http://pop-stat.mashke.org/montenegro-census.htm	title=Montenegro censuses 1948-2003	editor=Tim Bespyatov	date=2008–2013}} (note: no data on ethnic groups, language and religion, only total population)	471	446	536	386	237	91	54
		411	501	301		73	48
		35	19	77		8
			15	4
			1	4			6

Culture

Some Albanian Catholics have the custom of family and tribe celebration of saints (called festa in Peja), as is found in the Serbian Orthodox tradition of krsna slava.

Notable people

Pretash Zekaj Ulaj (1882-1962), commander in the Battle of Deçiq against the Ottoman Empire.

References

Sources

References

(November 2014). "Recherches albanologiques: Folklore et ethnologie". Instituti Albanologijik i Prishtinës.
Miljanov, Marko. (1990). "Primjeri čojstva i junaštva; Život i običaji Arbanasa; Fragmenti; Pisma; Bibliografija". Crnogorska akademija nauka i umjetnosti.
S. Gopevi. "Das F?rstentum Albanien". Рипол Классик.
Arso Milatović. (1990). "Kosmet: 1935-1945: moje svedočenje". Naučna knjiga.
Momčilo S. Lutovac. (1980). "Migracija radne snage iz Crne Gore na privremeni rad u inostranstvu: (1964-1974)". Srpsko geografsko društvo.
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Књига 1, ''Становништво, национална или етничка припадност, подаци по насељима'', Републички завод за статистику, Подгорица, септембар 2004, {{ISBN. 86-84433-00-9
"Table N1. Population by etnicity by settlement". MONSTAT.
(2008–2013). "Montenegro censuses 1948-2003".
Srpska akademija nauka. (1957). "Bulletin of the Ethnographical Institute". Naucno delo.

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