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  Kosovska Mitrovica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mitrovica (Косовска Митровица; Albanian Mitrovica or Mitrovicë) is a city located in the north of Kosovo, the southern province of Serbia, at 42.89° North, 20.87° East.
Nearby Mitrovica there is a mediaval fortress Zvečan which played an important role in the time of the Kingdom of Serbia under Nemanjić's rule.
Mitrovica became the focus for ethnic clashes between the two communities, exacerbated by the presence of nationalist extremists on both sides.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kosovska_Mitrovica   (706 words)

  
 Serbia Info News / In Kosovska Mitrovica there was no massive moving out
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, 6th April (Tanjug) - We can not speak at all about the humanitarian catastrophe about which foreign media dramatically, daily, falsely and maliciously report, as there was not any massive moving out of the wider area of that municipality.
Thanks to the measures undertaken by the state of Serbia, to Kosovska Mitrovica gradually, particularly after the latest statements and meetings of Ibrahim Rugova, return those Albanians who left their homes being afraid of bombing, as well as those who left under the pressure of the terrorists.
The example from the Kosovska Mitrovica Post-office in which from Saturday till today, by delivery, on the basis of identity card or passport, pensions were received by 3 500 pensioners shows that there was no massive moving out.
www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-04/07/10592.html   (213 words)

  
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KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Thursday - The head of Belgrade's Kosovo Coordination Centre, Nebojsa Covic, and his associates are working on defence strategies for the most endangered Serb populations in Kosovo, the Centre has announced.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Thursday - Hundreds of Albanians are reported to have descended on the village of Svinjare, outside Mitrovica, this afternoon and begun setting fire to Serb-owned houses.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Thursday - The head of Belgrade's Coordination Centre for Kosovo arrived in the riot-torn town of Kosovska Mitrovica this morning, where he has spoken of concern over the possibility of fresh attacks on Serbs in the province.
www.snd-us.com /Actions/march18-2004.html   (5982 words)

  
 Balkan Repository Project - NATO bombing results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Septembar 12, 1999 (Tanjug) At least 33 Serbs were wounded in an Albanian bombing and mortar attack on Thursday evening on the northern Serbian part of Kosovska Mitrovica.
Two more Serbs are recovering in the intensive care unit of the Kosovska Mitrovica hospital, while a young man from Kosovska Mitrovica and a female college student from Cacak, who was visiting relatives in Kosovo and Metohija, have been admitted to the orthopaedics department of this hospital.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, September 12, 1999 (The Independent) Ethnic Serb and Albanians clashed violently in the ethnically divided Kosovan city of Mitrovica yesterday, hurling stones and at least one grenade.
www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosovo_crisis/Sep_12/mil_reports.html   (1836 words)

  
 Balkan Repository Project - NATO bombing results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Milosav Kovacevic, 59, a Serb from the village Banje, near Srbica, Kosovo and Metohija, died on Saturday in the hospital of the French contigent of the international peacekeeping force (KFOR) in Kosovska Mitrovica after being seriously wounded by ethnic Albanian terrorists, the French police command in Kosovska Mitrovica has said.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The head of the U.N. Civilian mission in Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK), Bernard Kouchner, visited Kosovska Mitrovica and the local hospital on Sunday.
In southern Kosovska Mitrovica, from where all Serb families and non-Albanians have been driven out, it is well-known that the seat of the terrorist so-called KLA is located in the Centre for Social Work and that armed ethnic Albanians are stationed in the clothing factory Jumko.
www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosovo_crisis/Aug_23/mil_reports.html   (4158 words)

  
 Invest in Serbia - Kosovsko-Mitrovacki
The seat of the District is in the city of Kosovska Mitrovica.
Kosovska Mitrovica - being a medieval settlement, is rich in famous edificies and monuments: the Church of St. Dimitri originating from the fourteenth century, and the Church of St.Sava from the nineteenth century.
In the vicinity of Kosovska Mitrovica is the Devic Monastery, the first mention of which was found in 1578, supposedly built by Djuradj Brankovic, the distinguished Serb ruler.
www.invest-in-serbia.com /English/regional/28_kosovsko_mitrovacki.htm   (120 words)

  
 National news
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- A local Serb official said on Friday that the work of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) mission in the region of divided Kosovska Mitrovica was solid and that the Serbs were satisfied.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- The lawyers of detained Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica, Pristina and Prizren in the U.N.-ruled Serbian (Yugoslav) province of Kosovo-Metohija filed motions with the competent courts on Friday for early trials.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- A team of doctors in the northern part of Kosovska mitrovica, including Dr. Selomir Kalicanin, Dr. Zaca Belovic and Dr. Radmila Jevtic, examined on Saturday 42 imprisoned Serbs and Roma, who are on a hunger strike for the 27th straight day.
www.geocities.com /cpa_blacktown/20000510tanjun0605.htm   (878 words)

  
 KFOR Online Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kosovska Mitrovica / Mitrovice - On a beautiful, sunny Easter Sunday a Danish soldier in MNB (N) choose to be baptized in the idyllic surroundings of the Sokolica Monastery.
The Sokolica Monastery is situated on the slopes of the Sokolica hill (soko = hawk) near Kosovska Mitrovica / Mitrovice.
All three soldiers are from the Danish battalion located at Kosovska Mitrovica / Mitrovice in Camp Olaf Rye and are currently serving in the Scout Unit, patrolling various parts of MNB (N) for a six month tour.
www.nato.int /kfor/chronicle/2002/chronicle_07/12.htm   (485 words)

  
 The Voice of Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ethnic Serbs of the city of Kosovska Mitrovitsa have taken to the streets to protest the latest attempts to drive them out of their home city and the inability of the international peacekeeping contingent to put an and to the violence.
The leader of the Serbian community in Kosovska Mitrovica Oliver Ivanovic held talks on Thursday with a special representative of the UN secretary general in Kosovo Bernard Coushner and commander of KFOR, Klaus Reinhardt.
Mitrovica became a flash point of ethnic tension in Kosovo after the Albanian extremists repeatedly attacked local Serbs and French peacekeepers deployed in the town.
www.vor.ru /Kosovo/news_01_02_29_02.html   (3249 words)

  
 YDS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, December 7 (Tanjug) - President of the Serb National Council Executive Committee for Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija Province, Oliver Ivanovic, and UN civilian mission UNMIK Administrator for Kosovska Mitrovica municipality Ornelia Cardetini discussed on Tuesday the organization of activities and problems in local administration.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, December 7 (Tanjug) - President of the Serb National Council Executive Committee for Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija Province, Oliver Ivanovic, demanded better security for Serbs at his meeting with the Commander of the international KFOR peacekeepers sector North brigade General Henri Poncet on Monday.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, December 7 (Tanjug) - Deputies of the Kosovska Mitrovica Municipal Assembly addressed on Tuesday to the UN civilian mission UNMIK local Administrator Ornelia Cordetini a proposal that the Presidency of the Municipality be entrusted to a foreigner instead of an ethnic Albanian, and that vice-presidents be a Serb and an ethnic Albanian.
www.suc.org /news/yds/b081299_e.html   (1896 words)

  
 jasenovac   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kosovska Mitrovica — Twenty-five Jews fled to Priština with the arrival of the Germans in Kosovska Mitrovica.
The Germans interned Jewish males in a camp in Kosovska Mitrovica, while the women were taken into custody and assigned to forced labor in a hospital.
All the Jews from Kosovska Mitrovica, in other words, the ones held in the camp there, were taken to Zemun and detained at the “Sajmište” camp.
www.jasenovac.org /libraries/viewdocument.asp?DocumentID=147   (1575 words)

  
 Untitled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kosovska Mitrovica, however, is home to the giant Trepca complex, a sprawling conglomerate of about 40 mines and factories headquartered in the northern suburb of Zvecan.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo -- Responding to a call by NATO military commanders to reinforce the peacekeeping force in Kosovo, France is preparing to send another 600 to 700 troops, following a surge in violence in the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica.
Kosovska Mitrovica is the most ethnically mixed city in Kosovo and clashes between Serbs and ethnic Albanians are common.
www.unmikonline.org /press/wire/im250200.html   (4890 words)

  
 Serbia Info News / Civil war in Kosovska Mitrovica
Kosovska Mitrovica, Sept 10 ("Glas Javnosti" daily) - Ethnic Albanian extremists and terrorists are in the hurry, time for their disarmament is passing and the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, Zvecani, Zubin Potok and Leposavic are not yet ethnically clean.
Many foreign TV reporters were present at the scene as well, shooting pictures of hoisting of the Albanian flag and "conquering" of the northern part of the city.
The most of them were hurt by shrapnels and they were immediately hospitalized in the Kosovska Mitrovica hospital.
www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-09/11/14440.html   (500 words)

  
 FirstCoast News.com - Print Article
Milan Ivanovic, a doctor in the hospital in the Serb-held part of Kosovska Mitrovica, told The Associated Press that an American woman officer died of her injuries.
It was not immediately clear what caused the shootout in the prison in tense Kosovska Mitrovica, which has been the scene of ethnic violence between Serbs and ethnic Albanians a month ago.
Kosovska Mitrovica has long been a flashpoint for troubles between ethnic Albanians on the southern side of the Ibar River and Serbs, who live in the northern part of the city 25 miles from the capital, Pristina.
www.firstcoastnews.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=17466   (294 words)

  
 Kosovo Flash News (Apr 10, 2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kosovska Mitrovica — In yesterday conflicts between the Serbs and Albanians, six Serbs and one French KFOR soldier were injured.
Lacking sound arguments for the attacks against Serbs in Mitrovica, they were constantly raising two questions: the supposed mass graves and the return of their fellowmen to northern Mitrovica, each time by accusing the international forces of doing nothing about "these crucial issues".
April 09, 2000 — Kosovska Mitrovica, April 9 (Tanjug) — Around one hundred Serbs from the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica visited this morning the Orthodox graveyard in the southern, Albanian part of the divided town.
www.agitprop.org.au /stopnato/20000415bmmyu10.04.htm   (2654 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Jordanian policeman opens fire on international UN officers
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia-Montenegro -- A Jordanian policeman opened fire on a group of international UN police in Kosovo yesterday, killing two Americans before he was killed when officers returned fire.
Kosovska Mitrovica has long been the scene of violence between Serbs and ethnic Albanians, including riots that broke out a month ago, killing 19 and injuring 900.
Kosovska Mitrovica is located 25 miles from the provincial capital, Pristina.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/04/18/jordanian_policeman_opens_fire_on_international_un_officers?mode=PF   (577 words)

  
 NewStandard: 8/9/99
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia -- Ethnic Albanians angry over the division of their town hurled stones and taunted French peacekeepers again yesterday, demanding free movement across a bridge into the Serb district.
It was the second day of clashes between protesters and French troops on the bridge in the northwestern mining town of Kosovska Mitrovica, underscoring the continuing difficulties peacekeepers face in imposing peace on a province torn by ethnic hatreds.
At Kosovska Mitrovica, French troops have been trying for weeks to prevent frictions by barring most traffic across the bridge over the Ibar river, separating the two communities' neighborhoods.
www.s-t.com /daily/08-99/08-09-99/a06wn030.htm   (564 words)

  
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At a conference held today, Momir Kasalovic, the chairman of the executive board of the SNC of Northern Kosovo, said the incident had been provoked on purpose on the eve of the Brussels summit where standards for Kosovo and Metohija are to be discussed with the intent of "satanizing the Serbs".
His stay in the "Number One" pizzeria in the center of the city, where he lunched with representatives of the World Bank, was accompanied by chanting of slogans and whistles of disapproval, and the window on the entrance of the pizzeria was broken during the incident.
According to Tracey Baker, the UN police spokeswoman in Kosovska Mitrovica, international forces went to the scene supported by KFOR members specialized in the disarming of landmines and explosive devices and determined that "the box was empty".
www.mfa.gov.yu /FDP/081203_e.html   (1231 words)

  
 YDS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia, March 15 (Tanjug) - Fifteen Serbs were hurt, two of them seriously, in Wednesday morning's attack on around 1,000 Serbs in north Kosovska Mitrovica, on whom French KFor troops fired stun bombs.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 15 (Tanjug) - Serbs want to halt violence and have been seeking to do so for the nine months since the international community has had a presence in Serbian (Yugoslav) Kosovo-Metohija, a Serb official said on Wednesday.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 16 (Tanjug) - Head of the U.N. civilian mission to Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) Bernard Kouchner said on Wednesday that he had discussed the security situation and confidence-building measures in Kosovska Mitrovica, in separate meetings with representatives of the town's Serbs and ethnic Albanians.
www.suc.org /news/yds/b160300_e.html   (2009 words)

  
 Albanian Terror (english) - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Wednesday — The situation in Kosovska Mitrovica this afternoon is calm, but tense, with heavy UNMIK and KFOR forces controlling the bridge which divides the Serbian and Albanian zones of the segregated town.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Wednesday — Five people were reported killed and dozens of others were wounded Wednesday, as Serbs and ethnic Albanians clashed and peacekeepers fired tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades to keep them apart.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Wednesday — At least three people were reported killed and dozens of others were wounded Wednesday, as Serbs and ethnic Albanians clashed and peacekeepers fired tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades to keep them apart.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=122331   (3516 words)

  
 UN still trying to defuse tensions after violence rocks Kosovska Mitrovica
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA (AP) - The two men in charge of this divided town, a United Nations administrator and a French general, said Tuesday that they were counting on two foreign judges to punish extremists after 12 days of violence.
Some Albanians have wanted to push the Serbs in northern Mitrovica and beyond out of Kosovo, and some Serbs have wanted to do the opposite – to push the Albanians remaining among them south of the Ibar river, which divides Mitrovica, in order to create a pure Serbian area in northern Kosovo, he said.
The Albanian mayor of Mitrovica, Bajram Rexhepi, who said he had been a good friend of the dead man, said Haradinaj was unarmed when he was shot by French soldiers and was in Mitrovica visiting his sisters.
www.unb.ca /web/bruns/9900/issue19/intnews/kosovo.html   (1235 words)

  
 KOSOVO BEING CLEANSED OF SERBS (WERE IS THE OUTRAGE!)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Thursday – Albanians in Kosovska Mitrovica this afternoon set fire to the Church of St Sava.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Thursday – Hundreds of Albanians are reported to have descended on the village of Svinjare, outside Mitrovica, this afternoon and begun setting fire to Serb-owned houses.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Thursday – A section of the Serbian orthodox St Sava Church in southern Kosovska Mitrovica has been set ablaze by ethnic Albanians, Beta reports.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1100517/posts   (1689 words)

  
 Untitled Document
A terrorist attack on a truck in which were Miroslav Djelkapic from Obilic with his son Petar, was carried out on the main road Pristina - Kosovska Mitrovica, near the village of Samodraz, Vucitrn municipality, on January 18, 1999 at 9.30 p.m.
On January 23, at 6.50 p.m., the head of the OSCE Verification Mission for Vucitrn brought the abducted citizen into a police station in Kosovska Mitrovica.
Miodrag Bigovic was among the citizens, brought by the head of the OSCE Verification Mission for Vucitrn to a police station in Kosovska Mitrovica, on January 23, at 6.50 p.m.
www.webheaven.co.yu /usa/hague6.htm   (566 words)

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