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	Kosovo Polje - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kosovo Polje (Косово поље, Albanian: Fushë Kosovë) is a municipal located in Kosovo, at 42.63° North, 21.12° East, 8 kilometres south-west of Prishtina city.
		Kosovo Polje is the nearest town to the site of the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 although itself is of little historic interest.
		In December 1998, the Serb deputy mayor of Kosovo Polje was killed by Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists despite reportedly taking a moderate line on Serb-Albanian relations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kosovo_Polje (543 words)

	Battle of Kosovo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Kosovo Polje (Косовски бој or Бој на Косову) was fought on St.
		The battle started with Serbian noblemen and Lazar's son-in-law, General Vuk Branković, on one wing, Lazar in the centre, and Bosnian Duke Vlatko Vuković commanding the third wing of the Serbian army.
		The Battle of Kosovo is the battle of all battles in the annals of Serbian mythology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Kosovo (597 words)

	Battle of Kosovo: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ottoman empire was an imperial power that existed from 1299 to 1923 (634 years), one of the largest empires to rule the borders of the mediterranean...
		Kosovo polje (, albanian: fushë kosovë) is a town located in kosovo, serbia and...
		The battle of ankara or battle of angora, fought on july 20, 1402, took place on the field of çubukovasi between the forces of the ottoman sultan...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/battle_of_kosovo.htm (1493 words)

	Kosovo and Metohia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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 was also called "Republic of Kosova" by the shadow Kosovo Albanian government between a 1990 declaration of independence and the Kosovo War in 1999.
		Kosovo's international status is anomalous in that although it is a province of the Republic of employees from all ethnic communities (Albanian, Serbian, Roma, Bosniac, etc), but dominated by veterans of the KLA.
	koz.vianet.ca /boshis78.htm (1672 words)

	Kosovo on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		KOSOVO [Kosovo] or Kosovo-Metohija, Albanian Kosova, Serbo-Croatian Kosovo i Metohija and Kosmet, province (2002 est.
		The largely mountainous region includes the fertile valleys of Kosovo and Metohija and is drained by tributaries of the Morava (Velika Morava) and Drin rivers.
		Kosovo's population before 1999 was about 80% Albanian; ethnic Albanians now make up about 88% of the inhabitants.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Kosovo.asp (839 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 (8614 words)

	Four arrested after Kosovo attack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The attack was condemned by the head of the UN adminstration in Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner.
		Correspondents say tension is high in Kosovo Polje, a town surrounded by villages with ethnic Albanian populations.
		The Serb army was crushed by the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Kosovo Polje in 1389.
	www.gssa.ch /balkans/arrest.htm (436 words)

	NewStandard: 6/29/99
		KOSOVO POLJE, Yugoslavia -- On the broad plain that cradles this nondescript Pristina suburb, the Serbian Prince Lazar suffered a noble defeat at the hands of the invading Turks in 1389.
		Across Kosovo, Serbs are leaving, forced out of their homes by ethnic Albanians determined to avenge 11 weeks of mass murder and forced deportation.
		On Monday, those who remained celebrated the anniversary of the Kosovo Polje battle, a fight to the death between Lazar and the far stronger armies of the Ottoman Empire that has come to symbolize the fierce pride and fearlessness of the Serbian nation.
	www.s-t.com /daily/06-99/06-29-99/d07wn233.htm (963 words)

	"Nobody Should Beat You" - Slobodan Milosevic, 1987, Kosovo Polje
		Balevic, was an official in the Kosovo Polje branch of the League of Communists, and he chaired the meeting that Milosevic attended on April 24, 1987.
		Thousands of Albanians who had infiltrated Kosovo from Albania during the war were allowed to continue squatting on the land they had stolen, while the rightful owners were banned from ever returning.
		He said that the riots were aimed at Kosovo’s secession from Serbia, and that violence against non-Albanians in Kosovo increased with those riots.
	www.slobodan-milosevic.org /news/smorg012504.htm (1063 words)

	Kosovo Polje: The Start of a Myth
		In 1389 Turkish forces inflicted a decisive defeat on the Serbs at Kosovo Polje, precipitating the encirclement of the Christian Byzantine empire by Muslim Turkish forces.
		These two battles are burned into the memories of Orthodox Christian Serbs, who view the province of Kosovo as their heartland, the place with the greatest symbolic resonance in their history.
		Arguing that the privileged Serb minority of 200,000 were persecuted in Kosovo, president Slobodan Milosevic used Kosovo as a rallying cry to build his nationalist state.
	www.rnw.nl /hotspots/kosovo/html/flashpoint.html (263 words)

	Balkan Repository Project - 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I spoke to my cousin in Kosovo who told me that Thaci, the KLA leader, announced on TV the other day that Kosovo Polje was the last strong hold of Serbian terrorist.
		When General Jackson first came to Kosovo he made a speech in Kosovo Polje telling the Serbs not to leave because they were there to protect them.
		The situation is alarming, as numerous members of the international forces KFOR in Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province are unable to hold back ethnic Albanians who are moving toward this town in growing numbers from Pristina and neighbouring villages populated by ethnic Albanians, the Center for Peace and Tolerance of Kosovo Polje said.
	www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosovo_crisis/Oct_05/5.html (1205 words)

	Project Kosovo 2
		This council is jointly chaired by the President of the Municipality and the UN Municipal Representative, an indication of the growing partnership between the two arms of the local government.
		Project activities are now increasingly focused at the centre, supporting the Kosovo Community-Based Policing Steering Group (KCBP-SG), a body which draws together key decision makers and holds responsibility for the oversight of community-based policing and community safety across Kosovo.
		Tensions remain between Kosova Albanian and Kosovo Serb communities, and incidents of harrassment continue to be reported.
	www.balkansjustice.org /Kosovo2.htm (1016 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The incident in Kosovo Polje only capped a week of violence in which nearly 10 people were killed and many more injured in a range of murky incidents, unsolved murders of Serbs and Albanians, as well as kidnappings.
		In the aftermath of the explosion, dozens of Serbs and Roma in the village of Bresja, near Kosovo Polje, blocked the main Pristina-Peja highway.
		On the same day as the Kosovo Polje incident, the US government issued a formal security warning to all US nationals, reporting that it was aware of a "potential terrorist threat against US citizens in Kosovo", both officials and representatives of non-governmental organisations and media.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr/bcr_19991001_4_eng.txt (770 words)

	Kosovo History (6/28/2000)
		For 600 years and counting, Kosovo Polje, the Field of Blackbirds, has been etched as a place of honor and glory in the hearts and minds of every child born by a Serbian mother.
		On June 28, 1989, the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, over a million Serbs, 10% of the nation, made a pilgrimage to this sacred ground to pay their respects to the Kosovo heroes.
		Kosovo's "fl bird" is no crow, nor raven, no starling nor grackle, but "turdus merula", European cousin of the North American rusty-bellied thrush ("turdus migratorius"), which Americans call the "robin".
	www.truthinmedia.org /truthinmedia/Bulletins2000/Kosovo-history.html (700 words)

	News about Serbs and Serbian lands \| Demographic history of Kosovo, Wikipedia, July 22, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Serbs were cleansed out of the Vilayet of Kosovo between 1876 and 1912, especially during the Greek-Turkish war of 1897.
		According to these, the regions of Kosovska Mitrovica and Kosovo Polje were settled mostly by Serbs, whereas most of the terrirory of western and eastern parts of today's province was settled by Muslim Albanians.
		The Statistical Office of Kosovo states that the quality of the 1991 census is "questionable." [2].
	news.serbianunity.net /bydate/2005/July_22/18.html (1492 words)

	AIM News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On Sunday all the major Albanian Kosovo dailies reported that the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) of Hashim Thaci, the political leader of the officially-disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army, and the Unified Democratic Movement (LBD), were opposed to the deal.
		The leader of Kosovo's largest remaining Serbian community warned the United Nations in an AFP interview Sunday that thousands of displaced Serbs could begin returning to the disputed province by the end of the month.
		Large Albanian demonstrations were held on Sunday evening in Kosovo Polje, entering Bresje, one of the largest Serb communities in Kosovo Polje, with flags of the "great Albania", stated Svetislav Grujic, president of the Serbian National Assembly of Kosovo Polje for the SRNA agency.
	www.aim.ac.yu /cgi-bin/news.pl?id=401 (3286 words)

	Archive/NTIS: Milosevic 'Kosovo Polje' Speech (1989)
		This situation lasted for decades, it lasted for years and here we are now at the field of Kosovo to say that this is no longer the case.
		The Kosovo heroism has been inspiring our creativity for 6 centuries, and has been feeding our pride and does not allow us to forget that at one time we were an army great, brave, and proud, one of the few that remained undefeated when losing.
		In this spirit we now endeavor to build a society, rich and democratic, and thus to contribute to the prosperity of this beautiful country, this unjustly suffering country, but also to contribute to the efforts of all the progressive people of our age that they make for a better and happier world.
	www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~bip/docs/kosovo_polje/kosovo_polje.html (1517 words)

	My E-Mail Interview with KFOR in Kosovo - a lesson in non-communication [Free Republic]
		I thank Macedonia; [Kosovo] is very bad now, there's no living for the Roma, there is no peace, we know the soul of the Albanians, it's very uncertain whether the situation is going to stabilize or not.
		Kosovo, Yugoslavia is my country, Yugoslavia is 10 years under blockades, people are protesting on the streets everyday, going back there is impossible.
		Kosovo is the Serb homeland, the Albanian population was moved there by the Communist Tito in the postwar and never was a majority, even well into the seventies.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a380dcbe02955.htm (6080 words)

	Salon Feature \| Chaos envelops Pristina
		Ten years ago, on the 600th anniversary of the defeat of the Serbs by the Ottoman Turks at the battle of Kosovo Polje, 2 million Serbs gathered to rally around then Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic's call for a greater Serbia.
		Today, 10 years later, Milosevic has been indicted by a United Nations tribunal for crimes against humanity, more than half of Kosovo's 200,000 Serbs have fled the province in the wake of Serbia's capitulation to NATO airstrikes and only some 20 Serbs came to Kosovo Polje to witness the 610th anniversary of the battle.
		Mitic attended the grim ceremony at Kosovo's "field of flbirds," as the name of the village is translated.
	www.salon.com /news/feature/1999/06/28/serbs/print.html (859 words)

	YDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Humanitarian aid of about 50 tons of food was brought to Gracanica, Caglavica, Kosovo Polje and Strpci, and over 1,000 displaced persons accommodated in a hotel on Mt. Brezovica received their old-age pensions.
		KOSOVO POLJE, September 26 (Tanjug) - Serb representatives and KFOR peacekeepers reached agreement on Sunday after difficult negotiations on dismantling the Pristina-Pec road block Serbs put up in protest against KFOR brutality.
		KFOR commander for Kosovo Polje promised that there would be no more unannounced searches of Serb homes, and that Albanian and NATO symbols posted by local ethnic Albanians in gratitude for their "liberation" would be removed in the Kosovo Polje area.
	www.suc.org /news/yds/b270999_e.html (503 words)

	Blic: Due to bomb attack in Bresje, new abductions and provocations by the Albanians, barricades at Kosovo Polje, ...
		Blic: Due to bomb attack in Bresje, new abductions and provocations by the Albanians, barricades at Kosovo Polje, Kuzmin, Strpce...
		Due to bomb attack in Bresje, new abductions and provocations by the Albanians, barricades at Kosovo Polje, Kuzmin, Strpce...
		He met with complete boycott and left Kosovo Polje escorted by strong KFOR forces and followed by shouts and whistles of angry Serbs.
	www.ex-yupress.com /blic/blic10.html (778 words)

	Glas Javnosti: Albanian Terrorists Attack Market Place in Bresje (nr. Kosovo Polje) by rifle fired rockets, September ...
		BELGRADE - Zivojin Trajkovic and Zivorad Stepic from Kosovo Polje died and 36 more Serbs were wounded in an armed attack on a market place in Bresje (Bres-yeh) near Kosovo Polje (Po-lyeh).
		"Kosovo Polje and the neighboring Serb villages have been constantly under attack by the Albanian extremists in the last three days," Ristic said, adding that two days ago Albanians wounded in Ugljare (Ug-lyareh) village Zoran Galic(m) [died from his wounds in the meantime] and stabbed in Bresje village Vojislav Todic(m) and Branislav Jevtic (m).
		Protesting against this attack Serbs from Kosovo Polje and the neighboring villages blocked the main road Pristina - Pec.
	www.ex-yupress.com /glas/glas10.html (765 words)

	Charles Wukasch, Prairie View A & M University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kosovo Polje and The Alamo: A Comparative Study in Myth and Nationalism
		The Battle of Kosovo Polje in 1389 has had important historical and cultural ramifications from the Middle Ages until the very present.
		Indeed, various political and historical commentators have recently attempted to show that many of today's problems in Kosovo have their origins in Kosovo Polje and have demonstrated how recent political figures in former Yugoslavia have used (and misused) the legacy of the battle for political ends.
	aatseel.org /program/aatseel/2001/abstracts/Wukasch.html (163 words)

	Guardian \| Gypsies find themselves in no man's land
		Gypsies trying to flee Kosovo were turned back by Serb officials yesterday and told to return to Pristina, in a clear sign that despite his defeat, President Slobodan Milosevic is still trying to ethnically engineer the future of the devastated province.
		The returnees were angered when they arrived in Kosovo Polje to find that more than 90% of refugees sent back to Kosovo were gypsies.
		Many of the gypsies in Kosovo Polje came from the town of Obilic, about five miles north of Pristina, where their homes have been ransacked by angry returning refugees, who accuse them of having participated in the looting and burning of houses when ethnic Albanians were driven out by Serb police and paramilitaries in April.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3877473-103558,00.html (696 words)

	OSCE Feature - Bringing Kosovo communities together
		At the OSCE Community Centre in Fushe Kosove/Kosovo Polje, it is the last day of a training course on reproductive health, organized by the international NGO, Doctors of the World.
		The centre was established by the OSCE in October 2000 to serve the 35,000 large, ethnically-mixed community of Fushe Kosove/Kosovo Polje and its surroundings.
		The OSCE together with the municipality of Fushe Kosove/Kosovo Polje and the United Nations Civil Administration are currently looking into integrating the Community Centre into a wide complex of multi-ethnic facilities which will provide an even greater range of services to people from all communities.
	www.osce.org /item/97.html (703 words)

	[news] ERPKIM : Even hospitals were not spared by the rampaging Albanian
		We are attaching photographs of the devastated Health Center in Kosovo Polje, the only hospital facility where the remaining Serbs in the Kosovo Polje area were able to receive medical treatment.
		This was the only facility anywhere in central Kosovo where, besides Serbs, Albanians and members of other national communities could receive medical treatment.
		The second row of pictures shows two of several dozen burned Serb houses in Kosovo Polje and Bresje, as well as a destroyed ambulance in front of the Health Center.
	www.mail-archive.com /news@antic.org/msg05805.html (427 words)

	UNMIK Press Releases 1999
		PRISTINA-In its regular meeting today at UNMIK headquarters, the Kosovo Transitional Council strongly condemned yesterday’s grenade attack on a marketplace in Bresje near Kosovo Polje, in which two people were killed and more than 35 others injured.
		The Kosovo Transitional Council reaffirms its commitment to retaining a multi-ethnic society in Kosovo based on the principles of democracy and the rule of law.
		We call on all political leaders in Kosovo, but also directly on the citizens: a free, democratic and multi-ethnic Kosovo can only be constructed on the basis of tolerance and justice.
	www.unmikonline.org /press/press/pr53.html (707 words)

	March 18th: In Kosovo: Anti-Serbian Bombings, Torchings, Ethnic Cleaning
		For several days, led by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) Albanian thugs have conducted a massive campaign of racist violence against the small Serbian population not already driven out of Kosovo.
		Kosovo police force confirmed to Tanjug that the women and children had been accommodated at the KFOR Multinational Brigade Northeast base near Kosovska Mitrovica.
		09:31 KOSOVO POLJE, March 18 (Tanjug) - Kosovo Polje, where there are about one hundred Serbian houses, was set on fire in the night between Wednesday and Thursday by the Albanians and it is still on fire.
	emperors-clothes.com /new/terror.htm (951 words)

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