TAUKBASHÇE PARK
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This 18-hectare park (Parku i Taukbashçes, Taukbašte Park) has a playground, a café, tennis courts and a football field in the western part and another café in the eastern part. It is well laid out with wide paths and a large wooded area, but it sometimes receives wastewater from the nearby sewage plant. Its name comes from taukbaqhe, which means "garden of chickens" in the Gagauz language. Kosovo has indeed had a community of Balkan Gagauz, a Turkish people of Orthodox Christianity, since the Middle Ages. Almost disappeared from the country (they would be less than 200 today) and not counted in the national statistics, the Gagauzes are assimilated either to the Turks or to the Serbs. In the southern part of the park, on a small hill called Velania, is the old Jewish cemetery of Pristina with about fifty graves dating mostly from the 19th century (the last burial took place here in the 1980s). The city was home to a Sephardic community for five centuries made up of descendants of Jews driven out of Spain by the Catholic kings in 1492 and who found refuge in the Balkans under Ottoman protection. In 1944, the Jewish community in Kosovo numbered 1,500. More than half were arrested by Albanian soldiers of the SS Skanderberg division and killed in the Bergen-Belsen camp. Most of the survivors later settled in Palestine. Today in Kosovo, only three former Jewish families remain in Prizren.
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