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  Kosovo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kosovo (Albanian: Kosovë/Kosova, Serbian: Косово и Метохија/Kosovo i Metohija) is a province in southern Serbia.
Kosovo borders Montenegro, Albania and the Republic of Macedonia.
On an island was Svrčin, and on the coast Štimlji, and in the mountains was the Castle of Nerodimlje.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kosovo_and_Metohia   (7768 words)

  
 serbia - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Serbia and Montenegro opted to stay on in the federation and at the combined session of the parliaments of Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro held on April 27 1992 in Belgrade, the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was passed thus reaffirming the continuity of the state first founded on December 1 1918.
Serbia consists of three territories: the province of Kosovo and Metohia, the province of Vojvodina and "Serbia proper" (Serbian Cyrillic: Ужа Србија, Serbian Latin: Uža Srbija, English lit.: Narrower Serbia).
For Albanians, Kosovo was an attractive place to emigrate to as it already had a substantial Albanian population, it neighboured Albania, it was easy to cross the mountainous border without being detected and the standard of living was much higher than in Albania, despite being much lower than in the rest of Yugoslavia.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Serbia   (5091 words)

  
 Kosovo
Kosovo Polje (Kosovo Field) is just a small field which was the site of the Battle of Kosovo; when the communist government changed the name of the province to Kosovo in 1968, they also started pushing "Kosovo Polje" as the name of entire region.
Kosovo's international status is anomalous in that although it is formally a province of the Republic of Serbia, actual administration is presently conducted by the United Nations with no involvement on the part of the Serbian governments (under Security Council resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999; see Security Council Resolutions 1999 (http://www.un.org/Docs/scres/1999/sc99.htm)).
The Assembly of Kosovo was elected in November 2001 and Ibrahim Rugova was elected as president in March 2002.
www.findthelinks.com /countries/Kosovo.htm   (1912 words)

  
 Kosovo - Gurupedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Kosovo was economically important, as the modern Kosovo capital Pristina was a major trading centre on routes leading to ports on the Adriatic Sea.
In 1689, Kosovo was greatly disrupted by the Ottoman-Habsburg war (1683-1699), in one of the pivotal events in Serbian national mythology.
Kosovo's anomalous status is the result of the Kosovo War of March-June 1999, in the course of which air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's armed forces and civilian infrastructure by members of the
www.gurupedia.com /k/ko/kosova.htm   (4457 words)

  
 kosovo information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
"Kosovo" is used, againalmost exclusively, in the Serb-populated north of the province and in the rest of the former Yugoslavia.
Followingthe end of the war and the establishment of Tito 's Communist regime, Kosovo was granted the status of an autonomous region of Serbia in 1946 and became an autonomous province in 1963.
Kosovo's postal system is also usable only in countries which are accepting torecognise it as such (letters addressed to Kosovo only, or to Serbia and Montenegro have a chance of not arriving; your best betis Yugoslavia).
www.vsearchmedia.com /kosovo.html   (4483 words)

  
 Carl K. Savich - The Kosovo Crisis: Origins and History
Are the roots to the conflict in Kosovo found in the historical development and evolution of the region, in "ancient ethnic hatreds", in the occupation of the region by foreign powers, in the demographic changes which resulted from war and occupation, the migrations and immigration, or in recent political policies.
The history of Kosovo and Metohija is central and crucial in the development and emergence of Serbian national and religious consciousness and in the formation of a Serbian identity.
5% of the population of Kosovo, 1, 226, 736.
www.snd-us.com /history/savich_kosovo-origins.htm   (13446 words)

  
 Serbia - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Socialist Yugoslavia was established as a federal state comprising six republics: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia–Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro and two autonomous regions within Serbia — Vojvodina and Kosovo and Metohija.
In English this region is often called "Serbia proper" to denote "the part of the Republic of Serbia not including the provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo; the ethnic and political core of the Serbian state", as the Library of Congress puts it [3] (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/yugoslavia/yu_glos.html).
Autonomous provinces of Serbia: Kosovo and Metohija
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Servia   (5379 words)

  
 Serbia Info News - Kosovo and Metohia
The Constitution of the Republic of Serbia gives cultural and territorial autonomy to Vojvodina, Kosovo and Metohija, but without the attributes of statehood (articles 108-112).
They are authorized to deal with the questions of economic development, finance, culture, education, information, use of languages, medical care, welfare, etc. The Statute is the supreme legal act of an autonomous province, and its organs are the Assembly, the Executive Council (government) and the administrative bodies.
The members of the national minorities, according to the Copenhagen document of the OSCE, have the obligation of loyalty towards the state whose citizens they are.
www.serbia-info.com /news/kosovo/facts/index.html   (98 words)

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