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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 ...
e. The Albanians of Kosovo ( Albanian: Shqiptarët e Kosovës, pronounced [ʃcipˈtaɾət ɛ kɔˈsɔvəs] ), also commonly called Kosovo Albanians, Kosovan Albanians or Kosovars (Albanian: Kosovarët ), constitute the largest ethnic group in Kosovo . Kosovo Albanians belong to the ethnic Albanian sub-group of Ghegs, [10] who inhabit the north ...
Kosovo War (1999) During the Kosovo war (March–June 1999), Serb forces, apparently, expelled between 800,000 – 1,000,000 Albanians from Kosovo employing tactics such as confiscating personal documents to make it difficult or prevent any future return. Kosovo Albanians later returned following NATO intervention and the end of the war.
The colonization of Kosovo was a programme begun by the kingdoms of Montenegro and Serbia in the early twentieth century and later implemented by their successor state Yugoslavia at certain periods of time from the interwar era (1918–1941) until 1999. Over the course of the twentieth century, Kosovo experienced four major colonisation ...
During the New Year's Eve between 1943 and 1944, Albanian and Yugoslav partisans gathered at the town of Bujan, near Kukës in northern Albania, where they held a conference in which they discussed the fate of Kosovo after the war. Both Albanian and Yugoslav communists signed the agreement, according to which Kosovo would have the right to ...
Battle of Kosovo. / 42.71750°N 21.08500°E / 42.71750; 21.08500. 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 ...
2 Serbian police officers were killed in an ambush by Albanians in the town of Glogavac, Kosovo. 27 october A Serbian police inspector and a Serbian policeman were killed by the KLA in an ambush in the village of Surkis in Podujeva. 21 April: Kosovo Albanian student Armend Daci was shot by a Serb civilian sniper in Sunny Hill, Prishtina. 25 April
Destruction of Albanian heritage in Kosovo. Damaged and destroyed Islamic monuments during the Kosovo conflict (1998-1999) 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 ...