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Village in Tuzi, Montenegro From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Koći (Cyrillic: Коћи; Albanian: Kojë) 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.
Koje / Koći
Коћи Kojë | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 42°27′38″N 19°24′13″E | |
Country | Montenegro |
Municipality | Tuzi |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 54 |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Area code | +382 20 |
Car plates | PG |
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).[1]
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.[2]
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).[3]
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".[4] The inhabitants were Catholics, and the village had a church and priest, fra Marko.[4] A church was built by the ethnic Albanian migrant workers who left the village for Europe in the period of 1964–74.[5] The village population has since massively decreased.[5]
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.[12]
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