Orlja (Pirot)

Orlja
Village
Orlja
Coordinates: 43°18′43″N22°25′24″E / 43.3119°N 22.4233°E / 43.3119; 22.4233
Country	Serbia
Region	Southern and Eastern Serbia
District	Pirot
Municipality	Pirot
Population  (2002)
• Total	75
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Orlja is a village in the municipality of Pirot, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 75 people. ^[1]

Shale deposit

Orjla sits on an oil shale deposit, which has oil shale reserves amounting to 70 million tonnes, one of the largest oil shale reserves in Serbia and Europe. The deposit has an organic content equivalent to 1.5 million tonnes of shale oil. ^[2]

References

1. Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i Stanova 2002. Knjiga 1: Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost po naseljima. Republika Srbija, Republički zavod za statistiku Beograd 2003. ISBN   86-84433-00-9
2. Čokorilo, Voijin; Lilić, Nikola; Purga, Jaanus; Milisavljević, Vladimir (2009). "Oil shale potential in Serbia" (PDF). Oil Shale. A Scientific-Technical Journal . 26 (4). Estonian Academy Publishers: 451–462. doi:10.3176/oil.2009.4.02. ISSN   0208-189X . Retrieved 2010-09-12.