Gojbulja

Gojbulja () is a settlement in the Vučitrn municipality in the disputed region of Kosovo. The rural settlement lies on a cadastral area with the same name, with 692 hectares. It lies 687 m above sea level. The village is exclusively inhabited by Serbs, and is one of the Serbian enclaves in Kosovo; in the 1991 census, it had 454 inhabitants.

Today, it is one of four Serbian villages in Vučitrn, with ca. 300 residents. There is a local elementary school in the village.

History
Gojbulja is mentioned for the first time in an Ottoman defter (tax register) of 1455, as a village with 33 Serb houses, and a Serbian Orthodox Church, dedicated to Parascheva (Sv. Petka). On the tumulus of that old church, which lies at the rural cemetery, a new Church dedicated to Parascheva was built in 1986. The church was burnt during the 2004 unrest in Kosovo. In 2006 it was desecrated and looted. The church, parish house and the people's refectory are restored, but there is much effort left for the restoration of the interior and to make it available for regular services. The village is part of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Raška and Prizren.

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Category:Serbian enclaves in Kosovo
Category:Medieval Serbian sites in Kosovo
Category:Villages in Vučitrn