| Krushë e Madhe | |
| Native Name: | Velika Kruša |
| Native Name Lang: | sr |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Kosovo |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Kosovo |
| Coordinates: | 42.319°N 20.636°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Location |
| Subdivision Type1: | District |
| Subdivision Name1: | Gjakova |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name2: | Rahovec |
| Population Total: | 4473 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Krushë e Madhe (sr| Velika Kruša) is a village in the municipality of Rahovec of western Kosovo. With a population of around 7,000, it is the second largest village in Kosovo.[2] During the Kosovo War, the village was a stronghold of the Kosovo Liberation Army.[3] On 25 March 1999, it was the site of a massacre by the Army of Serbia and Montenegro in which 205 Kosovo Albanian civilians were killed.[4]
The village Krushë e Madhe was mentioned as 'Gorna Krusha' in the Ottoman register of the Sanjak of Prizren in 1591. The villagers primarily had Islamic names, though there were also Albanian and Slavic names present. The mansions ('Bashtina') listed mostly bore Islamic and 2 Slavic names.[5]
In 1862 Bajram Curri, an Albanian activist from the Highlands of Gjakova was born in Krushë e Madhe while his family was being transferred by the Ottoman authorities from Gjakova to the prison in Prizren.[6]
On March 26, 1999, two days after NATO began bombing the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the village of Krushë e Madhe in Kosovo was the site of a mass killing, during which over 200 ethnic Albanian civilians were executed by Serbian forces.[7]