"Kosovo" ke source dekho

'''Kosovo''' (Albanian: ''Kosovë'' nai to ''Kosova''; [[Serbian Cyrillic alphabet|Serbian Cyrillic]]: ''Косово''; Serbian [[Latin alphabet|Latin]]: ''Kosovo''), [[Balkans]] ke ek des hae.

Pahile je jamana me ii [[Dardani]] ke ek hissa rahaa, aur [[Roman empire|Roman]], [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]], [[Bulgarian Empire|Bulgarian]], [[Serbian Empire|Serbian]] and [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] Empires, tab [[Kingdom of Serbia]], [[Italian Empire]] aaur [[Yugoslavia]] ke niche rahaa. 1999 me [[NATO]] ke bombing ke baad ii territory [[United Nations]] ([[UNMIK]]) ke administration ke niche aais. 

The [[Assembly of Kosovo]] declared indepedence in February [[2008]]. This is disputed by [[Serbia]], and most other states. Serbia still sees the territory as '''Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija''' ({{lang-sr|Аутономна Покрајина Косово и Метохија / Autonomna Pokrajina Kosovo i Metohija}}). 

To the north and east of Kosovo is the rest of Serbia. To the south of Kosovo is the [[Republic of Macedonia]]. To the west of Kosovo are the [[Albania]] and [[Montenegro]]. The [[capital city|capital]] is [[Prishtina]]. Prishtina is also Kosovo's largest city. About two million people live in Kosovo. A majority of them are of Albanian origin, but there are also Serbs living in the most northern part of Kosovo.

== References ==
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* [http://www.kosovo.net/default3.html History of Kosovo and Metohija] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223233740/http://www.kosovo.net/default3.html |date=2021-02-23 }}
* [http://www.rastko.org.yu/kosovo/index.html The Rastko Project]
* [http://www.kc.gov.yu/ Coordination Center of SCG and the Republic of Serbia for Kosovo] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928191727/http://www.kc.gov.yu/ |date=2007-09-28 }}
* [http://www.tserkovnost.org/srbija/ Eastern Orthodox Resource Centre]
* [http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=689 Southern Serbia: The second Kosovo?]
* [http://www.kosovo.net/sk/history/kosovo_origins/default.htm Hugo Roth, ''Kosovo Origins''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517030606/http://www.kosovo.net/sk/history/kosovo_origins/default.htm |date=2008-05-17 }}: an historian's comprehensive overview 

== Bibliography ==
*Dušan T. Bataković, ''The Kosovo Chronicles'', Plato Books, Belgrade 1992.
*R. Petrović, M. Blagojević, ''The Migration of the Serbs and Montenegrins from Kosovo and Metohija'', SASA, Belgrade 1992,
*Dušan T. Bataković, ''Kosovo. La spirale de la haine'', L'Age d'Homme,  Lausanne 1998.
*''Kosovo-Kosova. Confrontation or Coexistence'', Nijmegen: University of Nijmegen & Political Cultural Centre 042 1996.
*''Kosovo. Avoiding Another Balkan War'',[[Thanos Veremis]] & Evangelos Kofos, (eds.), Athens:Eliamep & University of Athens, 1998.
*''Kosovo. Contending Voices on Balkan Interventions'', William Joseph Buckley, ed.,William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan &  Cambridge U. K 2000
*''Kosovo and Metohija. Living in the Enclave'', D. T. Bataković (ed.), Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade 2007, 314 p. ISBN 978-86-7179-052-9
*Jean-Arnault Dérens,  ''Kosovo. Année zéro'', préface de Marek Antoni Nowick,i Paris: Paris-Méditerranée, 2004.   
*Dušan T. Bataković, ''Kosovo. Un conflit sans fin?'' Lausanne: L'Age d'Homme 2008. 322 p. ISBN 978-2-8251-3875-5
*Dušan T. Bataković, ''Serbia's Kosovo Drama. A Historical Perspective'', Belgrade: Čigoja Štampa, 2012, 369 p. ISBN 978-86-7558-903-7

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