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The concept of Yugoslavia, as a common state for all South Slavic peoples, emerged in the late 17th century and gained prominence through the Illyrian Movement of the 19th century. The name was created by the combination of the Slavic words jug ("south") and Slaveni / Sloveni (Slavs).
The Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC; Albanian: Trupat e Mbrojtjes së Kosovës, TMK) was a civilian emergency services organization in Kosovo active from 1999 until 2009.. The KPC was created on 21 September 1999 through the promulgation of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) Regulation 1999/8 and the agreement of a "Statement of Principles" on the KPC's permitted ...
Decades: 1970s. 1980s. 1990s. 2000s. 2010s. See also: Other events of 1996 · Timeline of Bosnian and Herzegovinian history. The following lists events that happened during the year 1996 in Bosnia and Herzegovina .
The figure was obtained by approximating that 10% of the population of present-day Kosovo (which they estimated to be 500,000) was victimized, leading to a figure of 50,000. The population figure used for the Kosovo Vilayet in this estimate is an underapproximation as the 1911 population was c. 1.6 million per census data.
10–13 June: 1999 European Parliament elections are held producing a majority for the European People's Party for the first time since elections began. 18 June: OLAF is established. 1 July: Finland takes over the Presidency of the European Union. 20 July: Nicole Fontaine is elected President of the European Parliament.
The Château de Rambouillet where the negotiations took place. The Rambouillet Agreement, formally the Interim Agreement for Peace and Self-Government in Kosovo, was a proposed peace agreement between the delegation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia on the one hand and the delegation of political representatives of the ethnic Albanian majority population of ...
Slobodan Milošević was indicted in May 1999, during the Kosovo War, by the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for crimes against humanity in Kosovo. Charges of violating the laws or customs of war , grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions in Croatia and Bosnia and genocide in Bosnia were added a year and a half later.
1 October – The Rugby World Cup begins in the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff. 5 October. The Ladbroke Grove rail crash claims the lives of 31 people when two trains collide at Ladbroke Grove Junction, 2 miles west of Paddington station, London. Many more people are being treated in hospital for injuries.