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Krusha e Madhe location (Geography)
Krusha e Madhe is located in the municipality of Rahovec, Kosovo (https://www.mcgill.ca/trauma-globalhealth/notes/kosovoindependence). Consequently, Krusha e Madhe is considered to be the biggest village in Kosovo.

Population
The population of Krusha e Madhe appears to reach the population of 7,000 citizens (http://www.koha.net/arkiva/?page=1,31,139148). During the War in 1999, Serbian forces murdered 241 civilians, and 793 houses were burned (https://www.mcgill.ca/trauma-globalhealth/notes/kosovoindependence).

Economy
The agricultural areas of Krusha e Madhe are very rich with an overall of 630 hectares of fertile land (http://www.koha.net/arkiva/?page=1,3,102847). The fertile lands in Krusha e Madhe impact the economy as well. 16 hectares of the land are used for planting different vegetables – including 6 hectares of peppers, 2 hectares of potatoes, 2 hectares of onions, and as well as with cucumbers, and other vegetables(http://www.gazetatribuna.com/?FaqeID=6&LajmID=12977). In Krusha e Madhe, an agricultural cooperative is re-opened, which is mostly renowned for vegetables. With this initiative, farmers aim to develop the exporting and importing of vegetables in Kosovo, and in neighboring countries (http://www.koha.net/arkiva/?page=1,3,102847). In general, Kosovo is rich with fertile land, in which different vegetables and fruits are cultivated; thus, Kosovo tends to be a country in which traditional foods such as ajvar, pickles, cheese, and other dairy products. After the war and Massacre at Krusha e Madhe in 1999, women in Krusha e Madhe were organized and formed a women’s association and were presented to the marketplace by selling pickles at the beginning. Afterwards, they managed to expand the marketplace by opening businesses named Apetiti, "Krushe" cooperative, and Drita e Krushes. These small businesses are supplied with processed vegetables and other traditional foods.

History
This will cover the overall history of Kosovo but mostly focusing in the city of Prizren and Krusha e Madhe.

War in Kosovo
In this section, the years of Yugoslavian regime and the catastrophic events that have touched the people in Kosovo will be discussed (Overall population).

Massive War in Krusha e Madhe
Afterwards, the main focus will be on how the war happened in Krusha e Madhe and the importance it had which is worth to be written for. Moreover, it will be discussed mainly on how the massacre has happened; when the men of the place were gathered from the Yugoslavian army and all of them were murdered. It should be noted that Krusha e Madhe is the part of Kosovo which has always be known with the fewest number of Male alive after the war.

Afterwards consequences of the War
The horrible condition of the after-war period will be explained in which families of Krusha e Madhe will be interviewed and information will be given on how they dealt with difficulties.

Women of Krusha e Madhe
The most important part of the project will be the information provided for the women of Krusha e Madhe who play the most important role of the whole article. In this section, the challenges faced by these women will be explained.

Poverty and Disaster
As mentioned above, the war brought huge amount of damages in the whole country; however, since the topic is for Krusha e Madhe, the disaster life these women lived together with their children will be explained.

Developments
Women of Krusha e Madhe have changed the whole fate they had ever since the war in Kosovo and especially the massacre in this village. Based on the poverty and horrible life conditions, women of this place changed the state of it and developed the economy and trade of the village with their maximum dexterity given toward trying to help families about living a better life. (More information provided).

Businesses
The focus will be on how these women tried their best to have a better life and as such, these difficulties made them produce domestic products and food and sell them firstly in their neighborhoods and then it spread throughout Kosovo.

Women’s role in Kosovo today; judged especially from the economic perspective.
