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	The Kosovo Chronicles, by Dusan Batakovic (Part 1b)
		In the monasteries of Metohia and Kosovo, old theological and literary writings were transcribed and new ones penned, including the lives of local saints, from ordinary monks and priors to the archbishops and rulers of the house of Nemanjic.
		In Metohia alone he recorded over one hundred cases in which the Turkish authorities, police and judiciary tolerated and abetted robbery, bribery, murder, arson, the desecration of churches, the seizure of property and livestock, the rape of women and children, and the harassment of monks and priests.
		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.
	members.tripod.com /Balkania/resources/history/kosovo_chronicles/kc_part1b.html (15202 words)

	Kosovo (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.csres.utexas.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Metohia (alternatively spelled Metohija) derives from the Greek word μετόχια (metochia), a term which denotes church-owned land.
		Later, the whole territory of Kosovo became part of the Roman Empire, although it is not clear whether it was part of the province of Moesia or was divided between Dalmatia and Moesia (a view which is supported by some archaeological evidence).
		Following the First Balkan War of 1912, Kosovo was internationally recognised as a part of Serbia and Metohia as a part of Montenegro at the Treaty of London in May 1913.
	publicliterature.org.cob-web.org:8888 /en/wikipedia/k/ko/kosovo.html (4593 words)

	The Kosovo Chronicles, by Dusan Batakovic (Part 1a)
		Metohia, which was settled by primarily Montenegrin colonists, had many followers of the CPY, though at the outbreak of the war its membership comprised a mere 270, including some two dozen ethnic Albanians.
		The decision that Kosovo and Metohia be annexed to Serbia was made after the abolition of military rule on July 10,1945, perhaps under the influence of a large-scale ethnic Albanian resistance towards the new authorities.
		The fact that the ethnic Albanian question in Kosovo and Metohia is not in reality an issue of ideological differences and human rights is evident from the stands of Serbian opposition parties which are waging a bitter struggle with the former communists and present socialists for the democratization of the country.
	members.tripod.com /balkania/resources/history/kosovo_chronicles/kc_part1a.html (8208 words)

	Covic in Security Council
		The reality in Kosovo and Metohia obliges me to share with you some very disturbing facts: the deployed international peacekeeping forces, members of the international police task force and UN administration in Kosovo and Metohia are still incapable of preventing the violations of basic human rights.
		The remaining non-Albanian population and the few returnees to Kosovo and Metohia continue to be subjected to terror, murders and robberies on a daily basis.
		The pacification of the region of Kosovo and Metohia shall be in vain, if mountain passes in Kosovo and Metohia continue to be used as passageways for new supplies of modern and sophisticated weaponry.
	www.kosovo.net /covic_un2.html (2188 words)

	Briefed by Special Representative of Secretary-General for Kosovo, Council Reviews Persistent Challenges Facing Province
		Among them were the persistent human rights violations in Kosovo and Metohia confronting the remaining non-Albanian population and the few returnees on a daily basis, said Mr.
		T he Kosovo and Metohia Multi-ethnic Assembly had been formed, the Government had been elected, and members of the Serbian national community had been appointed to various positions, including the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development, and the High Councillor in the Office for Return and Communities of the Secretary-General.
		If the seriousness of the situation was not grasped, and particularly if decisive measures were not taken to alleviate the difficult situation and living conditions of the displaced persons, the international community would have to bear the heavy responsibility of neglecting basic human rights.
	www.unis.unvienna.org /unis/pressrels/2002/sc7472.html (9064 words)

	Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly
		The establishment of the special chamber of the supreme court for constitutional issues, with an extension of the field of competence, is necessary for the establishment of the constitutional court and in that way it predetermines the future status of Kosovo and Metohia.
		The mandate of the UN International Mission in Kosovo and Metohia was not and must not be the creation of an independent state financed by sex trafficking and drug trafficking from the Kosovo-based centres.
		The only successful way to resolve the whole problem in Kosovo and Metohia is to start the decentralisation process in full co-ordination and co-operation between the authorities of the Republic of Serbia, the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro and all the relevant international institutions and the provisional institutions of self-government in the Kosovo Province.
	assembly.coe.int /Main.asp?link=/Documents/Records/2005-1/E/0501251500EADI.htm (1055 words)

	CIVILIZATION CONFLICT IN THE SOUTH BALKANS
		"Kosovo (and Metohia) is the native and ancestral land of the Serbs.
		Negotiations on the final unification of the two Serbian states were interrupted by World War I. "Kosovo and Metohia were, at the moment of liberation in 1912, a backward agricultural community with a mixed Serbian and ethnic Albanian population - a land devastated by the raging of tribal anarchy.
		One year after Tito’s death, in March 1981, the Muslims of Kosovo announced their rebellion against inclusion in the Yugoslav state by setting a fire to the Pec Patriarchate, a complex of medieval Christian churches, where the throne of the patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church is formally located.
	www.antipasministries.com /html/file0000069.htm (1703 words)

	Koordinacioni centar za KiM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Promotion of local democracy in Kosovo and Metohia requires, in addition to decentralization of the "central" authority, introduction and strengthening of structures and institutions of self-government of local, national and regional communities along with introduction and strengthening of certain functional aspects of public policy of not only local communities (e.g.
		In conformity with new developments and the need to build further for the time being provisional institutions in Kosovo and Metohia, one has to head decisively for definition of a new and direct role of citizens and national communities and invigoration of their confidence in local self-government as a form of direct democracy.
		Devolution of powers and entrusting of tasks of the provisional local self-government of Kosovo and Metohia to municipalities is a significant factor of decentralization and de-concentration, especially because a part of UNMIK’s powers might be delegated to municipalities as units of local self-government.
	www.kc.gov.yu /D-ENGLISH/agencijski-izvestaji-eng/2004/002.html (4129 words)

	[Projekat Rastko Gracanica] Ph. D. Djordje Jankovic: Kosovo And Metohia In The Middle Ages - Archaeological Research
		The opinion of the earlier scholars was that Metohia was a region in the easternmost part of the Roman Dalmatia, and that Kosovo Polje was within the province of Moesia Superior.
		There are numerous archaeological testimonies of the continuous presence of the Serbian population in Kosovo and Metohia since the Early Byzantine era, that is, since the VI cent..
		As far as is known, from among all the Serbian areas, apart from those of Montenegro and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Metohia is the one with the greatest number of churches that have been in continuous use for over a thousand years.
	www.rastko.org.yu /kosovo/istorija/djordje_jankovic.html (1528 words)

	Press Releases: Balkans, Speakers in Security Council condemn recent violence in Kosovo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The killings had taken place in order to send a message to all the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohia that they had to leave, that there was no chance for reconciliation and the sort of multi-ethnic society that resolution 1244 and the international community foresaw.
		He said vigorous and decisive measures were needed that would lead to fulfilment of the standards that had been agreed upon: full and consistent implementation of Council resolution 1244; major progress in return of internally displaced persons; and security and freedom of movement of all ethnic communities.
		Despite the commitment Belgrade and the Government of the Republic of Serbia had shown, thus far, in regard to the establishment of a functional multi-ethnic society in Kosovo and Metohia, they were legitimately concerned that Albanian extremists and terrorists would use all means available to prevent the accomplishment of that objective.
	reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/0/c772f067f5b3df6849256d87000ce737?OpenDocu... (4667 words)

	Косовска Митров& (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kosovska Mitrovica/Косовска Митровица (Serbian) or Mitrovica (Albanian) is a city located in the north of Kosovo and Metohia at 42.89° North, 20.87° East.
		The city is one of the oldest known settlements in Kosovo amd Metohia, first being mentioned in written documents during the Middle Ages.
		Rapid development came in the 19th century after iron ore was discovered and mined in the region, providing what has historically been one of Kosovo and Metohia largest industries.
	www.phrasebase.com /forum/read.php?TID=17552 (154 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kosovo and Metohia has always been a part of Serbia (feel free to check the claim).
		Actually, the only 2 occassions during which Serbian sovereignty over its ancient land known as Kosovo and Metohia had been suspended was during WWI and WWII, when the local Albanians fought first on the side of the Austro-Hungrian Empire, and then on the side of Nazi Germany.
		Mind you, Albania hadn't even existed prior to 1912 and the claims that Kosovo and Metohia, somehow, belongs to Albania are laughable and ignorant.
	www.frontpagemag.com /GoPostal/commentdetail.asp?ID=6702&commentID=70932 (214 words)

	[Projekat Rastko Gracanica] Kosovo and Metohia
		Kosovo and Metohia, two central regions of perennial Serbia, are the very essence of Serbian spiritual, cultural identity and statehood since Middle Ages to date.
		Metohia, the name originated from the Greek word metoh means church land.
		During the nazi occupation a great number of Serbs were killed and expelled from Kosovo and Metohia, on the other hand the Nazis resettled from Albania to Kosovo almost 100.000 of Albanians.
	www.rastko.org.yu /kosovo/istorija/sanu/Kosovo.html (1318 words)

	House of Commons - Foreign Affairs - Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence
		The name of Kosovo and Metohia appeared for the first time in the 12th century as a region inhabited by the Serbs.
		Kosovo and Metohia became a part of the Serbian medieval state (9th to 14th centuries) when numerous churches and monasteries were built and bishoprics established (eg Prizren in 1019).
		The Metohia town of Pec became the seat of the Serbian Patriarchate between 1346 and 1459 and again between 1557 and 1766.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmfaff/28/28ap42.htm (2423 words)

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		Most hostages are farmers, abducted from their homes and farms, but there are also women, children, health workers and journalists among the Serb hostages held by the KLA terrorists.
		The aim of KLA terrorist activities is ethnic cleaning of the remaining Serbs from the territory of Kosovo and Metohia and occupation of their homes, lands and villages, which should in turn become a part of the Fascist ("ethnically cleansed") Great Albania, for which KLA strives for.
		The Serb antiterrorist police units were forced to leave Kosovo and Metohia under the threats of US and NATO bombers, abandoning all the loyal citizens of Serbia (beside Serbs, many Albanians, Turks, Gypsies, Gora Muslims and others) and leaving them at the mercy of KLA terrorists.
	www.compuserb.com /kosovo/cleanse1.htm (484 words)

	i-Newswire.com - Press Release And News Distribution - PAST THREE MONTHS MARKED BY POSITIVE TREND IN KOSOVO, BUT ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He had been told repeatedly that the world was tired of returning to this issue, that Kosovo and Metohia “would never be like Switzerland” in terms of modern democratic standards, and that it was necessary for Belgrade to change its approach before it “missed the train that is leaving the station”.
		The pretext for such a situation should be sought neither in the Kosovo Serbs nor in Belgrade, but in the general environment prevailing in the Province, which was characterized by a “lack of political maturity” on the part of the leaders of the majority community.
		The facts could not be hidden, and after six years of poor results on the implementation of the “standards before status” approach, it was unjustifiably optimistic that there would now be a major turnaround in just a few months, thus, creating conditions for negotiation on the future status of the Province.
	i-newswire.com /pr8239.html (8202 words)

	na990809 - Orthodox Press: Kosovo and Metohija Chronicle, August 09 - # Orthodox Press: Kosovo and Metohija Chronicle, ...
		Albanian terrorizing of the non-Albanian population in Kosovo and Metohia
		In Prizren and in other towns of Kosovo and Metohia, the pressures exerted on the Serbs (aiming to force them to move out of their houses) do not cease to happen intensively.
		Yesterday and today, the number of those who have had to leave their homes and to find refuge in the other places in Serbia, at least for a short period of time, is really great.
	www.bndlg.de /~wplarre/na990809.htm (1166 words)

	Parliament of the Republic of Serbia
		and Metohia was formed at the joint session of the Committee on Relations with Serbs Living Outside Serbia and the Ministry of the Diaspora held on 2 December 2005.
		At today’s session, the Action Plan of the Joint Team for Kosovo and Metohia of the Committee on Relations with Serbs Living Outside Serbia and the Ministry of the Diaspora was presented by the Ministry’s State Secretary, Aleksandar Cotric.
		According to the Plan, the Team is to co-ordinate activities of the diaspora relating to the status of Kosovo and Metohia, by organising meetings and talks with foreign officials and representatives of international organisations, as well as by holding working meetings, public rallies, panel discussions, news conferences, and other activities.
	www.parlament.sr.gov.yu /content/eng/aktivnosti/skupstinske_detalji.asp?Id=911&t=A (645 words)

	Albanian Terrorism in Kosovo and Metohia in Figures and Pictures. Serbian Ministry of Informaiton, (Accessed 15 May ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Actions of Albanian separatists in the territory of the Autonomous Province Kosovo and Metohia from January 01, to August 30, 1998.
		During the period from January 01, to August 30, 1998 the Albanian separatists have committed altogether 1126 terrorist attacks in the territory of the AP Kosovo and Metohia.
		In 600 cases the attacks were committed against the police officers while they were performing their duties (in three cases even against the helicopter of the Ministry) in 10 cases against the objects and houses of the Ministry's officers, and in 5 cases disguised armed terrorists stopped private cars.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /Kosovo/Kosovo-Serb_News25.htm (392 words)

	SANE Serbian-American Alliance of New England
		Serbian nationalism was secularized, derived from a mixture of German Volk cultural matrix (the common language and the popular tradition) and jacobine experiences, whose aim was to overcome the religious differences, with clear desires for liberal solutions coming from the population's social homogeneity.
		The biggest Orthodox church in Metohia, built in Djakovica in the1920s was demolished in 1950, and in its place a monument for Kosovo-Metohija partisans was erected.
		The decentralization based on the plans of Tito's closest associates, Edvard Kardelj – a Slovene, author of almost all the Yugoslav constitutions, and Vladimir Bakaric – a Croat, aimed at strengthening the competencies of the federal units, led to the renewal of nationalisms.
	www.sane-boston.org /aboutserbs_kos.html (6054 words)

	Boba Borojevic \| Columns \| serbianna.com
		Kosovo and Metohia are considered the key to the identity of the Serbs.
		Serbs call Kosovo and Metohia the heart of Serbia and the cradle of the Serbian state and nation.
		Kosovo and Metohia was also the largest relative "winner" - receiving 12 times more of these funds than it gave,” said Caslav Ocic in his speech.
	www.serbianna.com /columns/borojevic/029.html (1523 words)

	[No title]
		Simonida Dragas, a recognized expert on Kosovo and Metohia, in hope that it will be of use to you in achieving a better understanding of the situation in this troubled region.
		A FABRICATED POPULATION Hand in hand with the demographic explosion of Albanian population in Kosovo and Metohia came the games of "fabricating" their territorial and political rights.
		However, one cannot dispute the fact that the sharp increase in number of Albanians inhabiting Kosovo and Metohia had been followed by an equally sharp decline in the number of Serbs and Montenegrins living in the province.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/2000eeu/Yugo:_American_Orders (1050 words)

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