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Coordinates: 42.399°N 21.287°E. The result of Map Archaeological Project and in particular the cooperation of German and Kosovar Institute, an ancient locality in the Ferizaj municipality was discovered in 2008. The locality is situated in the Zllatar village in the north-east of Ferizaj, where today lies part of the American base "Bondsteel".
US Central Intelligence Agency map of Serbia as of June 2006, including the autonomous provinces of Vojvodina (north) and Kosovo (south). Kosovo's constitutional status of the period June 1999-February 2008 was established by the United Nations in UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1244, adopted on 10 June 1999.
Camp Bondsteel is the operation headquarters of the Kosovo Force (KFOR) in Kosovo. It is located near Ferizaj /Uroševac [3] in southeastern Kosovo. It is the Regional Command-East headed by the United States Army (U.S. Army) and it is supported by troops from Greece, Italy, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland and Turkey.
Ottoman Kosovo. Kosovo was part of the Ottoman Empire from 1455 to 1912, at first as part of the eyalet of Rumelia, and from 1864 as a separate Kosovo Vilayet . During this period several administrative districts (known as sanjaks ("banners" or districts) each ruled by a sanjakbey (roughly equivalent to "district lord") have included parts of ...
Kosovo is a relatively small country. Because of the climatic position and complicated structure of the relief it has a variety of climate systems. Kosovo lies in the south part of the middle geographical latitude of the northern hemisphere and it is affected by the Mediterranean Mild Climate and European Continental Climate .
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 ...
Kosovo during the First World War was initially, for about a year, completely filled with Serbian military forces, which retreated towards Albania to continue further to Corfu. After the occupation of the territories by Austria-Hungary , Germany , and Bulgaria as allies in the First World War, the occupied territories were divided. [1]
During the High Middle Ages, as Byzantine rule in Kosovo gave way to the Serbian Empire in the early 13th century, there was an Orthodox Christian majority, but also a Catholic minority consisting of the Italo-Dalmatian merchant class from Ragusa, German immigrants from Hungary and Transylvania, and probably all of the native Albanian population.