Vuksanlekići

Vuksanlekići
Вуксанлекићи
Vuksanlekaj
Village
Vuksanlekići Вуксанлекићи is located in Montenegro
Vuksanlekići Вуксанлекићи
Vuksanlekići
Вуксанлекићи
Location within Montenegro
Coordinates: 42°20′14″N 19°20′24″E / 42.337346°N 19.339924°E / 42.337346; 19.339924
Country Montenegro
Municipality Tuzi
Population
 (2011)
 • Total
267
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Vuksanlekići (Cyrillic: Вуксанлекићи; Albanian: Vuksanlekaj) is a village in the municipality of Tuzi, Montenegro.

The settlement of Vuksanlekaj, for its part, is said to have been founded by one Vuksa, son of Leka, around the year 1788.[1]

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, its population was 267, all but 5 of them Albanians.[2]

Vuksanlekaj is inhabited predominantly by the Albanian Camaj family of the Hoti tribe.

References

  1. ^ Elsie, Robert (2015). The Tribes of Albania: History, Society and Culture. Great Britain: I.B. Tauris. p. 50. ISBN 9781784534011.
  2. ^ "Tabela N1. Stanovništvo prema nacinalnoj odnosno etničkoj pripadnosti po naseljima, Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i stanova u Crnoj Gori 2011. godine" (in Montenegrin). Statistical Office of Montenegro. Retrieved January 27, 2012.


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