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The latter were made of leather and laces, but later they were made of rubber, linen, string, and cotton threads. The young women did not use the same decoration as the older women. [8] Until late the men of the Deçan region wore white or dark (black) leggings (tirq) with braids and vests also we made by braids.
According to Aram Andonyan and Zavren Biberyan, in 1908, the Kosovo Vilayet, which included modern Kosovo and the northwestern part of modern North Macedonia, had a total population of 908,115, of which the largest group were Albanians with 46,1%, followed by Bulgarians at 29.1%, Serbs at 12.4% and Turks at 9.8%.
Destruction of Albanian heritage in Kosovo. The architectural heritage of the Kosovo Albanians during Yugoslav rule was shown institutionalised disregard for decades prior to outright conflict at the end of the 20th century. [1] [2] Numerous Albanian cultural sites in Kosovo were destroyed during the period of Yugoslav rule and especially the ...
The Vinča culture occupied a region of Southeastern Europe (i.e. the Balkans) corresponding mainly to modern-day Serbia and Kosovo, but also parts of Southernmost Hungary, Western-Central Romania (Oltenia, Transylvania), Western Bulgaria, Eastern Croatia, Eastern Bosnia, Northern Montenegro and North Macedonia.
Mitrovica ( Albanian indefinite form: Mitrovicë; Serbian Cyrillic: Митровица ), also referred as Kosovska Mitrovica ( Albanian: Mitrovica e Kosovës; Serbian Cyrillic: Косовска Митровица ), is a city in northern Kosovo and administrative center of the District of Mitrovica. In 2013, the city was split into two ...
The Kosovo Myth ( Serbian: Косовски мит / Kosovski mit ), also known as the Kosovo Cult ( Косовски култ / Kosovski kult) and the Kosovo Legend ( Косовска легенда / Kosovska legenda ), is a Serbian national myth based on legends about events related to the Battle of Kosovo (1389). It has been a subject in ...
Illyrians. Illyrian tribes in the 1st–2nd centuries AD. The Illyrians ( Ancient Greek: Ἰλλυριοί, Illyrioi; Latin: Illyrii) were a group of Indo-European-speaking people who inhabited the western Balkan Peninsula in ancient times. They constituted one of the three main Paleo-Balkan populations, along with the Thracians and Greeks .
The Battle of Kosovo took place on 15 June 1389 [A] between an army led by the Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović and an invading army of the Ottoman Empire under the command of Sultan Murad Hüdavendigâr . The battle was fought on the Kosovo field in the territory ruled by Serbian nobleman Vuk Branković, in what is today Kosovo, about 5 ...