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	Battle of Kosovo - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Kosovo is bounded on the south by the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, on the west by Albania, and on...
		Kosovo, Second Battle of, battle between the armies of the Ottoman Empire and a European coalition, fought in 1448 in the Kosovo region of Serbia....
		The Battle of Kosovo Polje (Serbian Cyrillic: Косовски бој or Бој на Косову) was fought on St Vitus' Day (28 June) 1389 between Serbia and the Ottoman Empire.
	encarta.msn.com /Battle_of_Kosovo.html (188 words)

	Kosovo Polje - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kosovo Polje (Косово поље, Albanian: Fushë Kosovë) is a town located in Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro, at 42.63° North, 21.12° East.
		Kosovo Polje is the nearest town to the site of the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 and thus acquired a totemic status as a symbol of Serbian nationalism (although the town itself is a fairly poor, run-down place of little historic interest).
		The town was seriously affected by the March 2004 unrest in Kosovo, which saw a number of Serb houses burned and more Serbs forced to flee (the Serbian government claimed that 2,000 people had been expelled, though this is inconsistent with the earlier reports of the number of Serbs in the town).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kosovo_Polje (642 words)

	Kosovo Battle
		The Battle at Kosovo Polje is one of the focal points of their memories, and as such played a vital role in the Serbian culture.
		It is this memory of the battle of Kosovo that kept the Serbian culture alive.
		On Vidovdan, June 15th (by the old calendar) a solemn requiem to the Kosovo warriors was held in Krusevac, the ancient capital of Prince Lazar, and the foundation of the monument dedicated to the Kosovo martyrs was laid.
	www.kosovo.net /kosbitka.html (6170 words)

	Kosovo Battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is this memory of the battle of Kosovo that kept the Serbian culture alive.
		On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Kosovo Battle in 1889 a solemn session of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts was held in Zagreb, with speeches by the 2 most prominent Croatian scholars:Franjo Racki and Toma Maretic.
		On Vidovdan, June 15th (by the old calendar) a solemn requiem to the Kosovo warriors was held in Krusevac, the ancient capital of Prince Lazar, and the foundation of the monument dedicated to the Kosovo martyrs was laid.
	www.kosovo.com /kosbitka.html (6170 words)

	A Short History of Kosovo
		However in 1389, in the famous Battle of Kosovo Polje, the Serbs and their allies were defeated by the Ottoman Turks and shortly Kosovo became part of the Ottoman Empire.
		On June 28, 1989 a huge political rally was held at Kosovo Polje to commemorate the Serbian defeat at the hands of the hated Turks in 1389.
		Kosovo was at the time, and indeed still is an integral part of the territory of Serbia within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
	lamar.colostate.edu /~grjan/kosovohistory.html (12419 words)

	History of Kosovo and Metohia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Kosovo covenant - the choice of freedom in the celestial empire instead of humiliation and slavery in the temporal world - although irrational as a collective consciousness, is still the one permanent connective tissue that imbues the Serbs with the feeling of national entity and lends meaning to its join efforts.
		Kosovo and Metohia, land lying in the heart of the Balkans where viutal trade routes had crossed since ancient times, was settled by Slav tribes between the 7th and 10th centuries.
		The Serbian nation's Kosovo covenant is embodied in the choice which, according to legend, was made by Prince Lazar on the eve of the battle of Kosovo.
	www.kosovo.com /histkim.html (10834 words)

	The Kosovo Chronicles, by Dusan Batakovic (Part 1b)
		In its proclamations to the people of Kosovo and Metohia, the CPY blamed the Serbian bourgeoisie for the mistreatment and persecution of the ethnic Albanian population, thus indirectly shifting the blame from the ruling structures of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia to the entire Serbian nation.
		The autonomous province of Kosovo, a political community with many elements of statehood (it was even granted the right to a Constitution), and only formally dependent on Serbia, served the plans of secessionists who wanted to drive the Serbian population out of these regions and create an ethnically pure Kosovo.
		The Albanization of Kosovo and Metohia was especially bolstered by the Province's unhindered communication with Albania, from where professors came to the Pristina University in the seventies, spreading Greater Albanian propaganda.
	www.snd-us.com /history/dusan/kc_part1b.htm (15212 words)

	From Green Bay to Bosnia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It was at Kosovo in 1389 that Serb met Turk in decisive battle with an aftermath lasting 500 years...
		Kosovo itself would be the scene of later battles and civil disturbances throughout those bitter centuries.
		Kosovo: Legacy of a Medieval Battle, Thomas Evert and Wayne Vucinich.
	my.execpc.com /~pvmiii/bosnia/yugodgst/kosovo.html (3716 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Behind the Crisis in Kosovo
		WASHINGTON -- Kosovo is a land inhabited by ethnic Albanians and yet regarded by Serbs as sacred.
		Kosovo, a Serbian province, is now the scene of fighting between the Serbian government and independence-minded ethnic Albanian Kosovars.
		Kosovo is politically and legally part of Serbia and that complicates matters.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Jul1998/n07071998_9807074.html (619 words)

	Balkan Repository Project - NATO bombing results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		KOSOVO POLJE, October 4, 1999 (The Associated Press) Jasmina Brocic, the head nurse at the Serb clinic answered the telephone and without replying thrust the receiver out so a visitor could hear the caller.
		PRISTINA, October 4, 1999 (I-Net) The northern part of Kosovo, which is under French forces' control, is one of the best secured areas of the province, said the French KFOR commander Bruno Kisz, and added that it is necessary to start a dialogue with Kosovan Serbs so the international community could understand their requests.
		KOSOVO POLJE, Yugoslavia (AP) _ The head nurse at the Serb clinic answered the telephone and without replying thrust the receiver out so a visitor could hear the caller.
	www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosovo_crisis/Oct_04/mil_reports.html (3296 words)

	Untitled Document
		To better understand the contemporary political situation in Kosovo, it is essential to acknowledge the histories of the ethnic Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo and their historical relationship to one another.
		Kosovo became the cultural and administrative center of the Serbian state for 200 years, during which Serbs constructed churches and monasteries in Kosovo.
		Protests erupted within Kosovo, where a state of emergency was declared and troops were sent to quell unrest in the region.
	www.wcl.american.edu /hrbrief/v6i2/kosovo.htm (2160 words)

	Battle of Kosovo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Battle of Kosovo Polje was fought on St.
		The battle started with Serbian noble and Lazar's sons-in-law General Vuk Branković on one wing, Lazar in the center, and Captain Miloš Obilić; (a.k.a.
		During the battle Captain Miloš Obilić; went into the tent of Sultan Murad I, posing as a traitor and offering his knights and his loyalty.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Battle-of-Kosovo.htm (585 words)

	Battle of Kosovo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The historical reality of this battle is is a matter of some contention, with little evidence for any of the details.
		The battle started with Serbian noble and Lazar's son-in-laws General Vuk Brankovic on one wing, Lazar in the center, and Captain Milosh Obilich (a.k.a.
		During the battle Captain Milosh Obilich (thought to be of Albanian descent) went into the tent of Sultan Murad I, posing as a traitor and offering his knights and his loyalty.
	ukpedia.com /b/battle-of-kosovo.html (458 words)

	On Serb National Holiday, Kosovo Serbs Don't Have Much to Celebrate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		KOSOVO POLJE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Under the stone tower commemorating the centuries-old battle that has become the lodestar of Serb nationalism, two British soldiers sunbathed Sunday as they made a lunch of instant noodles.
		Apart from them, the three-story monument to the battle of Kosovo Polje was deserted in the midday sun, an abandoned symbol of the Serb pride that has been under siege this month.
		For Serbs, the anniversary of the battle continues to be a symbol of nationalistic pride.
	www.freeserbia.net /Articles/1999/Vidovdan99.html (562 words)

	Kosovo Battle
		Kosovo is the term deeply embedded in the Serbian national consciousness - it draws from the 1389 Serbian defeat by the Turks.
		Kosovo also spelled Kossovo (June 28 [June 15, old style], 1389), BATTLE fought at Kosovo Polje [polje = field in Serbo-Croatian] (Field of Blackbirds), Serbia (now in Yugoslavia), between the armies of the Serbian Prince Lazar and the Turkish forces of the Ottoman Sultan Murad I (reigned (1360-89).
		The battle ended in a Turkish victory, the collapse of Serbia, and the complete encirclement of the crumbling Byzantine Empire by Turkish armies.
	www.srpska-mreza.com /library/facts/kosovo-battle.html (621 words)

	[Projekat Rastko Gracanica] Serbian Epic Poetry
		Many have heard something about the earlier battle of Kosovo in 1389 in which (we are told) the "Serbian nation" was defeated by "the Turks".
		Still, the myth of Kosovo is too overwhelming (not least in the minds of the Serbs) to be ignored, and any exploration of the real history of Serbia has to begin with an understanding of the national mythology.
		During the battles of World War I and the Balkan Wars which preceded it, Serb patriots invented new poems styled after the old ones, and I don't doubt that the same thing is happening even today.
	www.rastko.org.yu /kosovo/umetnost/serbepic (951 words)

	Blood Feud
		At scenes of recent ethnic cleansing, in explanations given by perpetrators of atrocities, even at the exits of polling stations, the one constant, obsessive reference is to a military event of 1389: ''Because of the battle of Kosovo Polje,'' or ''We must avenge Kosovo Polje,'' or some such.
		Serbs have always claimed that because of that sacred battle Kosovo is their Jerusalem, the cradle of Serbdom.
		It is a sad consolation that the body of writing on modern Kosovo is growing by the day, and can be found in wire reports from the confrontation lines, morgues and funerals.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/08/09/reviews/980809.09husarst.html (920 words)

	European Union Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina - History of BiH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Contrary to the widespread Serbian legend about this battle, thousands of Albanian knights and soldiers fought beside their Serbian brothers in arms against the Ottoman Empire and many of them died on behalf of the Serbian cause.
		In fact, Kosovo Polje was just one of the several battles as the Ottomans expanded their Empire.
		At the time of the battle of Kosovo Polje the Ottoman Empire already occupied many of the territories that are parts of Bulgaria, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
	www.euforbih.org /bih/chapter2.htm (766 words)

	BBC News \| Europe \| Bitter memories of Battle of Kosovo
		Religious ceremonies have been taking place to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo Polje, but most Serbs are marking the occasion hesitantly, if at all.
		It is also 10 years since President Slobodan Milosevic used the 600th anniversary of the battle to launch the Serb nationalist project in the old Yugoslavia.
		But there are no Serbian forces remaining in Kosovo to fight, and the Serbs who have stayed are left to plead for protection from the international peacekeeping forces.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/379934.stm (332 words)

	Kosovo Polje 1389-Present (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Battle of Kosovo is naught but a big, fat thumb that the Serbs have been sucking on to comfort themselves for five centuries as they were active and enthusiastic supporters, indeed catamites of the Turkish Empire: read Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, p.
		Later, after they freed themselves of Turkish misrule, they replaced it with their own--and used the Kosovo thumb as an excuse to repress the native inhabitants of Kosovo after stealing the provence in 1913 (and then starting WWI the next year through malice, terrorism and incompetence, but that's another story).
		The only battle that is the least bit comparable to Kosovo is the siege of Derry (Londonderry) of 1689--another insignificant battle used for centuries afterward as an excuse to subjugate the locals and continue racist domination over people who neither asked for it nor deserved it.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1161808/posts (7652 words)

	Timeline 1300 to 1399 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		1389 Jun 15, Ottoman Turks crushed Serbia in the Battle of Kosovo.
		The Serbs were defeated by the invading Turkish Ottoman army at the Battle of Kosovo Polje, the "Field of Blackbirds." In the battle, the Serb prince Lazar was captured by the Turks and beheaded.
		The Battle of Kosovo, in which the Serbs chose death rather than surrender, remains a permanent symbol in the Serbian national consciousness.
	www.timelines.ws /1300_1399.HTML (9093 words)

	* The truth about the Conflict in Kosovo.
		Non-Albanian population of Kosovo shrinks from 60% to 25%.
		The Albanian pacifist President of Kosovo, Ibrahim Rugova, was on the verge of an agreement with Milosevic to restore Kosovo autonomy.
		The terms are similar to those of Rambouillet except that (1) Kosovo remains part of Serbia and (2) the occupying forces, though made up largely of NATO countries, would officially be acting in the name of the United Nations.
	www.tupbiosystems.com /articles/kosovo_conflict.html (5033 words)

	National mythology - All the serbians Wars. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1389 Turkish army defeated Christian, mostly Serbian army on Kosovo polje, a place in nowadays Kosovo.
		It was exactly the grand 600th celebration of "victory" at Kosovo polje in 1989, led by newly established Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, that meant the start of the bloody events that happened in the next 10 years.
		The myth of the Battle on Kosovo polje is far from being the only Serbian national myth, still lively in the mind of Serbian people, and far from being the only myth that was largely exploited by Serbian ruling elite.
	jagor.srce.hr /~mpinter/news1.html (785 words)

	Politicians, the Media and Scholars Lied about Milosevic's 1989 Kosovo Speech
		It was at Kosovo Polje in 1389 that Serbs fought their most historic battle, losing to a Turkish army and later enduring 500 years of Ottoman rule.
		If we lost the battle, then this was not only the result of social superiority and the armed advantage of the Ottoman Empire but also of the tragic disunity in the leadership of the Serbian state at that time.
		You have to understand that the Serbs in Kosovo suffered a kind of repression, a mild kind of repression, but repression nonetheless - from 1974 until the mid to late 1980s at the hands of Albanian mafia - an Albanian Communist mafia that was in control of Kosovo.
	emperors-clothes.com /milo/gw.htm (9825 words)

	Battle of Kosovo - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Battle of Kosovo Polje was fought on St. Vitus' Day of 1389 (June 15 in Julian calendar) between Serbs and the Ottoman Empire.
		As he pledged allegiance, he stood up and stabbed the Sultan with a poisoned dagger.
		The second Battle of Kosovo (1448) also feutured Ottoman and Serbs, this time allied against Catholic Hungary.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Battle_of_Kosovo (516 words)

	International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic www.
		Speaking with reporters at the beginning of the Gazimestan celebrations, Kosovo LC President Rahman Morina said that no innocent people were being placed in isolation in Kosovo, and had isolation not been implemented much more severe measures would have been needed today, Tanjug reported.
		Reporting on the security situation in Kosovo on the 28th, the agency noted that there were no major problems apart from those caused by the large number of vehicles travelling to the celebrations.
		He skillfully exploited the myth of Kosovo Polje - where the Serbs refused to surrender even though that brought defeat and subjugation - but he was always a pragmatist.
	emperor.vwh.net /icdsm/more/gw.htm (8221 words)

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