Bujanovac
Bujanovac (Бујановац) (
Albanian,
Bujanocit) is a town and municipality in
Pčinja District of
Serbia, situated in the Preševo valley and close to the eastern extreme of
Kosovo. According to 2002 census, the municipality of Bujanovac had a population of 43,302 people. The Bujanovac municipality has 461 square kilometers and 59 inhabited places.
In 2002, the population of the municipality was composed of:
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Albanians (54.7%)
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Serbs (34,1%)
Between 1999 and 2001, an ethnic Albanian guerilla organization similar to the KLA, known as the "
Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac", operated in this region with a goal to secede these three municipalities from Yugoslavia and join them to Kosovo (as a part of the Greater Albania picture). Though there were casualties and injuries on both sides, the events did not quite attract the same international media attention as what had been happening in Kosovo until 1999, and what was also happening south of the border in
Macedonia during 2001. The situation approaching 2006 is peaceful, but not entirely stable.
