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Kosovo, [a] officially the Republic of Kosovo, [b] is a country in Southeast Europe with partial diplomatic recognition. Kosovo lies landlocked in the centre of the Balkans, bordered by Serbia to the north and east, North Macedonia to the southeast, Albania to the southwest, and Montenegro to the west. Most of central Kosovo sits on the plains of Metohija and the Kosovo field. The Accursed ...
Kosovo is a small and landlocked country in Southeastern Europe. The country is strategically positioned in the center of the Balkan Peninsula enclosed by Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the north and east, North Macedonia to the southeast, and Albania to the southwest. It has no direct access to the Mediterranean Sea but its rivers flow into ...
Capital of Kosovo: Pristina. Elections in Kosovo. Kosovan elections. 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence. 1990 Kosovo declaration of independence. International Court of Justice advisory opinion on Kosovo's declaration of independence. Serbia's reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence.
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. Censuses, normally conducted at ten-year intervals, record the demographic characteristics of the population. According to the first census ...
Kosovo 's modern history can be traced to the Ottoman Sanjak of Prizren, of which parts were organised into Kosovo Vilayet in 1877. This was when Kosovo was used as the name of the entire territory for the first time. In 1913 the Kosovo Vilayet was incorporated into the Kingdom of Serbia, which in 1918 formed Yugoslavia. Kosovo gained autonomy in 1963 under Josip Broz Tito 's direction. This ...
The Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija ( Serbian: Косово и Метохиja, romanized : Kosovo i Metohija, Albanian: Kosova dhe Metohia ), commonly known as Kosovo ( Serbian Cyrillic: Косово, Albanian: Kosova) and abbreviated to Kosmet (from Kos ovo and Met ohija; Serbian Cyrillic: Космет) or KiM (Serbian Cyrillic: КиМ ), is an autonomous province defined by the ...
Kosovo was part of the Kosovo Vilayet, which included Kosovo, parts of northern and northwestern North Macedonia, parts of modern eastern Montenegro and much of the Sandzak region.
Political status of Kosovo. 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).