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Kosovo is located between the Mediterranean Sea and mountainous regions of Southeast Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. This geographic location gives the country its large annual temperature range. Summer temperature highs can reach +30 °C (86 °F), winter's temperatures as low as −10 °C (14 °F). [22]
Kosovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Косово) is the Serbian neuter possessive adjective of kos (кос), ' blackbird ', [ 22 ][ 23 ] an ellipsis for Kosovo Polje, 'Blackbird Field', the name of a karst field situated in the eastern half of today's Kosovo and the site of the 1389 Battle of Kosovo Field. [ 24 ]
The political status of Kosovo, also known as the Kosovo question, is the subject of a long-running political and territorial dispute between the Serbian (and previously, Yugoslav) government and the Government of Kosovo, stemming from the breakup of Yugoslavia (1991–92) and the ensuing Kosovo War (1998–99). In 1999, the administration of ...
Demographics of Kosovo. 14.6 per 1,000 pop. [3] 7.7 per 1,000 pop. -3.72 per 1,000 pop. The Kosovo Agency of Statistics monitors various demographic features of the population of Kosovo, such as population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (Serbia's claim) See International recognition of Kosovo and Brussels Agreement (2013) Common endonym(s): Kosova (Albanian and Turkish); Kosovo (Serbian and Bosnian) Official endonym(s): Republika e Kosovës (Albanian) Autonomna Pokrajina Kosovo i Metohija (Serbian) Adjectival: Kosovar or Kosovan
Beginning on 31 July 2022, tensions between Kosovo and Serbia heightened due to the expiration of the eleven-year validity period of documents for cars on 1 August 2022, between the government of Kosovo and the Serbs in North Kosovo. Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008, signed an agreement with Serbia in 2011 that determined the use of ...
A map published by French ethnographer G. Lejean [45] in 1861 shows that Albanians lived on around 57% of Kosovo Vilayet while a similar map, published by British travellers G. M. Mackenzie and A. P. Irby [45] in 1867 shows slightly less; these maps don't show which population was larger overall. Nevethless, maps cannot be used to measure ...
The cities and towns in Kosovo belong to the following size ranges in terms of the number of inhabitants: 1 city larger than 150,000: Pristina. 2 cities from 50,000 to 100,000: Gjilan and Prizren. 9 cities from 15,000 to 50,000: Ferizaj, Fushë Kosovë, Gjakova, Mitrovica, Peja, Podujeva, Rahovec, and Vushtrri.