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The Kosovo War ( Albanian: Lufta e Kosovës, Serbian: Косовски рат, Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. [56] [57] [58] It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the ...
The history of Kosovo dates back to pre-historic times when the Starčevo culture, Vinča culture, Bubanj-Hum culture, and Baden culture were active in the region. Since then, many archaeological sites have been discovered due to the abundance of natural resources which gave way to the development of life. In antiquity the area was part of the ...
Yugoslav victory. 28 February: Serbian police killed 14 Albanians of the Ahmeti family. 5 March: 4 Yugoslav policemen killed in an ambush by KLA in Prekaz. 5–7 March: Attack on Prekaz. Yugoslav victory. 28 militants and 30 civilians killed by VJ. 7-10 March: Battle of Llapushnik KLA victory.
This, coupled with economic problems in Kosovo and Serbia as a whole, led to even greater Serbian resentment of the 1974 Constitution. Kosovo Albanians started to demand that Kosovo be granted the status of a constituent republic beginning in the early 1980s, particularly with the 1981 protests in Kosovo. This was seen by the Serbian public as ...
By the 1980s, the Kosovo Albanians constituted a majority in Kosovo. During the 1970s and 1980s, thousands of Serbs and Montenegrins left Kosovo, including some 57,000 during the 1970s alone. [8] [9] Social-economic, migration from underdeveloped areas, an increasingly adverse social-political climate and direct and indirect pressures were ...
1904 – Revolt in Kosovo [57] [67] 1908 – The Young Turk Revolution starts within the Ottoman Empire. 1910 (1 – 3 May) – The Battle of Kacanik [78] 1910 (May–June) - New taxes levied in the early months of 1910 resulted with Albanian Revolt of 1910 which was suppressed within a month.
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%.
Serbian civilians. More than 100 Serbian and Roma civilians from Orahovac and its surrounding villages - Retimlje, Opterusa, Zočište and Velika Hoca - in western Kosovo were kidnapped and placed in prison camps by KLA fighters; 47 were massacred. Lake Radonjić massacre. Before 9 September 1998.