Village in Kosovo where all residents are named Gashi

The village of Bruce near Janjevo, which belongs to the Lipjan municipality, is not connected to any other parts of this municipality. To reach it, we must cross the territory of two municipalities -- Pristina and Artana. Halfway across Pristina '% Gjilan, with the asphalt issued to the right -- a three-mile-long road -- half of it arranged recently with KFOR tools.

Now, though, this road is fixed. However, if two cars are to meet face - to - face, one must be avoided to the point of risk of leaving the other. This is the first description we can make of our journey to this very interesting village. So once this narrow road is completed, the first houses in the village seem to have major differences with each other in age. Residents say that there are old houses over 200 years of age, which are barely maintained but live in the brors. To combat any extreme poverty, coal production and its sale are the sole trade of most inhabitants.

Thus, there are 32 special ovens in the village where trees are burned into barbecue coals. There's a risk that everyone can go back to hi”, he said at the beginning of the Shyceri Gashi conversation. He, too, says that a meter of wood can produce 5-6 sheets of grilled coal, which they burst into the Pristina and Gjilan market, while carrying is mainly made of donkeys. Also, Bruce is the only village of the Lipjan municipality inhabited by Albanians of Catholic and Muslim faith. All Bruce residents have the name Gashi, and about half of them are of Catholic faith. There are times when members within the family belong to two different beliefs.

Ruzhdzhi Gashi once a month goes to the village cemetery and bows down before a collapsed grave, along the way to the church of St. Christmas and with two lit candles in his hand makes the blessing of his father's grave. After the ritual ends, he always crosses before he stands. Ruzhdi is of the Catholic faith, and his father died as a Muslim and was buried with a zoja. “

Ruzhdi's father, Lim, was of Muslim faith, and there were three other brothers - all of whom had Muslim names - but two of them were of the Catholic faith. Of the twelve brothers and sisters, there is one sister left of the Muslim faith. No one in the village says exactly how it has happened that within a family, its members have different beliefs. They just say the village was raised by three brothers who have embraced different beliefs. In the midst of the village are tombs where until 10 years ago both Catholics and Muslims have been buried together, while they are recently separated. But even though they belong to two confessions, villagers say interreligious tolerance is at best. When we have Bajram, the Catholic religious neighbours come and congratulate us for the holidays, but Muslims visit their Catholic neighbors at Christmas”, Nazim Gashi told us, hodge from this village.

While Ivan Gashi, a teacher now retired, says that in respect for Muslim neighbours, he has been working nothing for Bajrami's holidays for 32 years, even the store shuts down. Part of the road has been paved before us KFOR. Likewise, Irish KFOR soldiers have made adequate investments in our school, significantly improving the working conditions in it. There are rare cases when children, after the end of nine years, follow further schooling in the absence of conditions, because most of them are instructed for sale of coal”, he stated.