Parteš

Parteš

Партеш*/Parteš* (Serbian)
*Partesh* (Albanian)
Parteš Партеш/Parteš (Serbian); Partesh (Albanian)
Town and municipality
	Church of the Holy Trinity in Parteš
	Emblem
	Parteš Parteš
	Coordinates: 42°24′07″N 21°26′01″E / 42.40194°N 21.43361°E
Country	Kosovo
District	District of Gjilan
Settlements	3
Municipality status	19 August 2010
Government
• Provisional president	Dragan Petković (GIS)
Area
• Municipality	18.3 km2 (7.1 sq mi)
Elevation	473 m (1,552 ft)
Population (2024)
• Municipality	3,251
• Density	180/km2 (460/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	38251
Vehicle registration	06
Website	kk.rks-gov.net/partesh/sr/

Parteš (Serbian Cyrillic: Партеш) or Partesh (Albanian definite form: Parteshi), is a town and municipality located in the Gjilan District of Kosovo. The municipality was established on 19 August 2010. It is inhabited by Serbs, and as of 2013, it has an estimated population of 5,300 inhabitants.

Settlements

The municipality consists of town of Parteš and two villages: Pasjane and Donja Budriga.

Parteš, in relation to Gjilan.
Parteš municipality.

Culture

The settlements of Parteš, Donja Budriga and Pasjane are inhabited by ethnic Serbs. There are four Serbian Orthodox churches within the municipality.^[2] There are pilgrimage sites at medieval religious ruins.^[2]

Economy

The economy is based mainly on dairy production and small trade.^[2]

Education

There are two primary schools and five secondary schools within the municipality.^[2]

Demographics

The municipality of Parteš is inhabited by ethnic Serbs. The ECMI calculated, based on 2010 and 2013 estimations, that the Parteš municipality was inhabited by 5,300 Serbs (99.96%).^[3]

According to the 2011 census, which is unreliable due to partial boycott by Serbs and other minorities,^[4] the settlement of Parteš alone had 478 residents, all of whom were Serbs (100%); the Parteš municipality had 1,787 residents, 1,785 of whom were Serbs (99.9%).^[2] The municipality of Parteš includes the town and two villages. It is one of the Serbian enclaves in Kosovo (located outside Serb-inhabited North Kosovo), alongside five other municipalities: Gračanica, Štrpce, Novo Brdo, Ranilug and Klokot.^[3] After the Brussels Agreement of 2013, representatives of Serbia and Kosovo agreed that the municipality was to become part of the Community of Serb Municipalities.^[5]

Demographic history
Settlement	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991
Donja Budriga	617	689	801	983	1.018	1.178
Parteš	775	878	1.009	1.203	1.274	1.513
Pasjane	1.325	1.448	1.508	1.845	1.974	2.030
Total	2.717	3.015	3.318	4.031	4.266	4.721

Politics

The municipality in planned to be included in the Community of Serb Municipalities, according to the 2013 Brussels Agreement.

The 2013 local elections, held in November, saw 2,770 voters, 63.8% of the total number of registered voters in the Parteš municipality (4,342) according to the last elections.^[2] The elections saw the following results in the local government, the municipal assembly which has 15 seats:^[2]

Independent Liberal Party (SLS), 37.60%—6 seats
Citizens' Initiative Srpska (GIS), 18.20%—3 seats
Democratic Initiative (DI), 13.04%—2 seats
People's Initiative (NI), 12.57%—2 seats
Serb Citizens' Initiative Pasjane (SGI P), 6.02%—1 seat
Serb Citizens' Initiative Donja Budriga (SGI DB), 6.02%—1 seat

References

^ "Population and housing census in Kosovo preliminary results - July 2024" (PDF). Retrieved 21 July 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g OSCE & September 2015.
^ ^a ^b ECMI Kosovo 2013.
^ "ECMI: Minority figures in Kosovo census to be used with reservations". ECMI. Archived from the original on 2017-05-28. Retrieved 2017-10-24.
^ Vukoičić, Danijela; Milinčić, Miroljub (2020). "Kosovska Mitrovica as Two Parallel Cities in the Twenty-First Century". In Mihaylov, Valentin (ed.). Spatial Conflicts and Divisions in Post-socialist Cities. New York City: Springer. p. 61. ISBN 978-3-03061-765-3. It is planned for the Serbian Municipalities Community (SMC) to have the President, the Vice President, the Council and the Parliament that consists of ten municipalities (Northern Kosovska Mitrovica, Zvečan, Zubin Potok, Leposavić, Parteš, Ranilug, Novo Brdo, Gračanica, Štrpce, and Klokot.)