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| | The Kosovo Crisis: Origins and History | Carl Savich | Columns | Serbianna.com |
 | | 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.During the Nemanjic Dynasty, Kosovo-Metohija, which made up a region called Old Serbia (Stara Srbija),was the religious and political center of Serbia. |
 | | Batakovic quoted the Prime Minister of Serbia as stating that ì60,000 people fled Kosovo and Metohija for Serbia in the period from 1890 to 1899î at the time when Serbia was preparing a so-called Blue Book that was to be presented at the 1899 Peace Conference at the Hague. |
 | | The ethnic population of Kosovo, Serbs, Albanians, Turks, identified their national identity with Serbia, Albania, and Turkey,or, in the era before nationalism, with their religious, ethnic, group.In other words, it is problematic and controversial to argue for a distinct and separate national,political, and ethnic identity for Kosovo. |
| www.serbianna.com /columns/savich/011.shtml (10206 words) |
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