Klokot

Klokot is situated in the geographical region of Kosovo Pomoravlje, in the southeastern part of Kosovo.

The municipality has a cadastral area of {{convert|2336|ha|acre}}. The municipality includes the town of Klokot and three villages:

• Klokot ({{langx|sr|Клокот}}, {{langx|sq|Kllokot}})
• Mogila ({{langx|sr|Могила}}, Mogillë)
• Vrbovac ({{langx|sr|Врбовац}}, {{langx|sq|Vërboc}})
• Grnčar ({{langx|sr|Грнчар}}, {{langx|sq|Gërnçar}})

On 16 August 1999, after the Kosovo War, a mortar attack carried out by Albanians killed two Serb civilians in the village. There had earlier that month been two mortar attacks.{{cite news|newspaper=NY Times|date=18 August 1999|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/18/world/shelling-of-a-serbian-village-in-kosovo-kills-2.html|title=Shelling of a Serbian Village in Kosovo Kills 2 |last1=Gall |first1=Carlotta }}

In August 2003, explosive devices planted in Klokot destroyed five Serb houses, with several injuries, including two American KFOR soldiers.{{cite book|title=Serbian Studies|volume=18|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m5EsAQAAIAAJ|year=2004|publisher=North American Society for Serbian Studies|page=315}}

The municipality of Klokot was officially established on 8 January 2010, previously being part of the Viti Municipality. The seat of the municipality is in Klokot. This and other new-formed municipalities of Kosovo are not recognized by Serbian government, which still considers it part of Vitina municipality.[http://www.parlament.gov.rs/upload/archive/files/cir/pdf/zakoni/2007/4308-07-cir.zip Law on Territorial Organization of the Republic of Serbia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012035526/http://www.parlament.gov.rs/upload/archive/files/cir/pdf/zakoni/2007/4308-07-cir.zip|date=2013-10-12}} (in Serbian), adopted on 29 December 2007, from the official web site of the Parliament of Serbia [http://www.parlament.gov.rs/], accessed on 6 October 2013.{{Primary source-inline|date=January 2014}} The municipality was formed based on the Ahtisaari plan for decentralization of Kosovo which called for the establishment of a municipality with Serbian majority within the Vitina municipality. 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.{{cite book|last1=Vukoičić|first1=Danijela|last2=Milinčić|first2=Miroljub|editor-last=Mihaylov|editor-first=Valentin|year=2020|title=Spatial Conflicts and Divisions in Post-socialist Cities|chapter=Kosovska Mitrovica as Two Parallel Cities in the Twenty-First Century|publisher=Springer|location=New York City|isbn=978-3-03061-765-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jTMPEAAAQBAJ|page=61|quote=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.)}} Part of the agreement which pertained to the creation of the Association of Serbian municipalities was deemed unconstitutional by Kosovo’s Constitutional Court and since then the agreement has been blocked.{{cite web |last1=Swoboda |first1=Hannes |title=KOSOVO - THE UNFULFILLED BRUSSELS AGREEMENT |url=https://www.iipvienna.com/new-blog/2023/1/12/kosovo-the-unfulfilled-brussels-agreement |publisher=International Institute for Peace}}

Between 2014 and March 2016, 30 Serb families with 124 members have left the municipality.{{cite web|title=Opštinu Klokot Vrbovac napustilo 30 srpskih porodica|url=http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/drustvo/aktuelno.290.html:596869-Opstinu-Klokot-Vrbovac-napustilo-30-srpskih-porodica}} In December 2016, two local Serb youngsters were stabbed by a group of six Albanians. The week before, a house of a Serb returnee family had been burnt down.{{cite news|title=SRBI META ŠESTORICE ALBANACA "Napali su nas iz čista mira"|newspaper=Blic|url=http://www.blic.rs/vesti/hronika/srbi-meta-sestorice-albanaca-napali-su-nas-iz-cista-mira/mzgpdzt}}

For 2016, the estimated budget for the municipality was €800,000.{{cite web|title=Srbi u Pomoravlju bez perspektive|publisher=TV Most|url=http://tvmost.info/vesti/srbi_u_pomoravlju_bez_perspektive/34967}}

The economy of the municipality of is mainly based on natural resources (mostly mineral water), tourism (two private spas), agriculture and small trade businesses. Klokot has some important hot-water springs that get up to {{convert|32|C|F}}.{{ASIN|3897941414|country=de}} There are 29 registered private businesses operating in the municipality.

There are three elementary schools in the municipality with 599 students and 33 teachers, one secondary school with 147 students and 13 teachers and one kindergarten with 15 children and 2 teachers ({{as of|2013}}). Two elementary schools follow Serbian curricula, while one follows Kosovo curricula. The St. Sava Elementary school in Klokot is attended by 250 students ({{as of|2001}}) and the secondary school is located in Vrbovac.{{cite news|url=http://www.ex-yupress.com/blic/blic21.html |title=We Are Imprisoned Here Like on Reservation |newspaper=Blic |date=13 January 2001 |access-date=12 March 2012}}

The municipality has four Serbian Orthodox churches. The church in Grnčar was reported to have been mined and destroyed during the Kosovo conflict, and was later fully reconstructed. There is a mosque in village of Mogila which was not damaged during the conflict.

File:Banja Kllokot ThermomineralSpa1.JPG|Spa Center in Klokot

File:Kosovo 016.jpg|Houses in Klokot

File:Kosovo 005.jpg|KFOR soldiers in Klokot in 1999

The first (and most recent to day) municipal elections were held on 15 November 2009.KIM radio: [http://www.radiokim.net/Sve-spremno-za-izbore-u-opstini-Klokot-Vrbovac-4953-vest.htm Sve spremno za izbore u opštini Klokot-Vrbovac]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (27.10.2009) {{in lang|sr}} Although Serbian Government did not recognize those elections, 25.4% of local voters, mostly Serbs, did participate in the elections.KIPRED: [http://www.kipred.net/web/upload/Decentralization_in_Kosovo_I.pdf Decentralization in Kosovo I: Municipal elections and the Serb participation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719045943/http://www.kipred.net/web/upload/Decentralization_in_Kosovo_I.pdf |date=2011-07-19 }} Serb Saša Mirković was elected mayor.KIM radio: [http://www.radiokim.net/Odrzana-druga-sednica-decentralizovane-opstine-Klokot-5452-vest.htm Održana druga sednica decentralizovane opštine Klokot]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (02 Feb 2010) {{in lang|sr}} Out of 15 members of the municipal assembly, ten were elected from the Serb Independent Liberal Party, and five from the Albanian Democratic League of Kosovo.KIM radio: [http://www.radiokim.net/Decentralizovana-opstina-Klokot-odrzala-prvu-sednicu-Skupstine-5407-vest.htm Decentralizovana opština Klokot održala prvu sednicu Skupštine]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (21 Jan 2010) {{in lang|sr}} In November 2017, Božidar Dejanović of the Serb List became the new mayor of Klokot.{{cite news|title=Božidar Dejanović ...|newspaper=Blic|url=http://www.blic.rs/vesti/politika/bozidar-dejanovic-postao-gradonacelnik-klokota/9dtvf1y}}

The municipality of Klokot has a Serb majority and Albanian minority.{{sfn|Instituti GAP}} The ECMI calculated, based on 2010 and 2013 estimations, that the Klokot municipality was inhabited by 3,500 Serbs (71.23%).{{sfn|ECMI Kosovo|2013}} The town of Klokot had 1,500 residents before the Kosovo War (1998–99), and 1,200 in 2001.

According to the 2011 census, which is unreliable due to partial boycott by Serbs and other minorities,{{cite news|title=ECMI: Minority figures in Kosovo census to be used with reservations|publisher=ECMI|url=http://www.infoecmi.eu/index.php/ecmi-minority-figures-in-kosovo-census-to-be-used-with-reservations/|access-date=2015-04-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170528122213/http://www.infoecmi.eu/index.php/ecmi-minority-figures-in-kosovo-census-to-be-used-with-reservations/|archive-date=2017-05-28|url-status=dead}} the town of Klokot alone had 1,064 residents, 616 Serbs (57.89%), 446 Albanians (41.91%), and 2 others; the municipality had 2,556 residents, 1,362 Albanians (53.29%), 1,177 Serbs (40.05%), 9 Romani (0.35%), 1 Turk (0.04%) and 7 Others and unspecified (0.27%). The number of residents before the Kosovo War was estimated to have been 5,000 in what is today the Klokot municipality.

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• {{cite web|title=Opština Klokot|publisher=Instituti GAP|url=http://www.institutigap.org/documents/78750_KLLOKOTI.pdf|ref={{harvid|Instituti GAP}} }}
• {{cite web|title=Community Profile: Serb Community|publisher=ECMI Kosovo|year=2013|url=http://www.ecmikosovo.org/uploads/Serbcommunity1.pdf|ref={{harvid|ECMI Kosovo|2013}}|access-date=2017-02-14|archive-date=2017-01-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116165216/http://www.ecmikosovo.org/uploads/Serbcommunity1.pdf|url-status=dead}}

{{commons cat|Klokot}}

• [https://kk.rks-gov.net/kllokot/ Municipality of Klokot]
• [http://www.radioklokot.com/ Radio Klokot] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027014820/http://www.radioklokot.com/ |date=2016-10-27 }}
• {{cite web|title=Klokot - ni manje opštine, ni većih problema|publisher=Glas Amerike|url=http://www.glasamerike.net/a/klokot-ni-manje-opstine-ni-vecih-problema/3058260.html}}

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