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Kosovo
Kosovo (or Kosovo Polje, the Field of Blackbirds) The site (in what is now
SERBIA) of a decisive battle (28 June 1389) when the troops of the Serbs were defeated by an
OTTOMAN force. Although the Serbs enjoyed early success and Sultan
MURAD I was killed before battle commenced, his son
BAYEZID I took command, and won the battle. Victory opened the way for Turkish invasion of central Europe. A second battle, between Hungarians and Turks took place nearby in 1448 at which
MURAD II defeated the Hungarians. The Kosovo area was settled by Muslim Albanians during Ottoman rule.
In 1945 the area became an autonomous region of Yugoslavia. In 1990 it declared independence, but in response Serbia removed its autonomous status. Conflict between Albanian separatists and Serbian troops continued until 1998 when Serbian forces succeeded in driving out and killing huge numbers of Albanians. This prompted NATO to launch airstrikes against Serbia in 1999 and Serbia agreed to a ceasefire and to allow refugees to return.
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Kosovo in the balance.
Magazine article from: Foreign Policy in Focus; 8/31/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...a bad cold that won't go away, the Kosovo question continues to plague international...been agreement by now for a settlement of Kosovo's status that would have entailed...threat of a Russian veto has derailed the Kosovo independence train and Europe is once...
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Kosovo One Year After: Experts Assess the NATO Action and the Possible Way Forward
Magazine article from: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs; 5/31/2000; ; 700+ words
; KOSOVO ONE YEAR AFTER: EXPERTS ASSESS THE NATO...air campaign, peace remains elusive in Kosovo. That, despite the expulsion of all Serb...which forced the Serbian withdrawal from Kosovo, the U.S. Institute of Peace invited...
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KOSOVO: THA[euro]I PLEDGES TO DECLARE INDEPENDENCE IN DECEMBER.
News Wire article from: Interpress Service; 11/23/2007; 700+ words
; By Alba ela PRISTINA, Kosovo, Nov. 21, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Exit polls suggest that the elections held in Kosovo this weekend produced a major win for the party led by Hashim Thai, a former Kosovo Liberation Army leader. According to...
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Kosovo: A declaration of independence - or war? ; Balkans on the brink over future of Kosovo
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 12/7/2007; ; 700+ words
; The historic declaration of Kosovo's independence will be contained in a "We...peaceful route to future EU membership for both Kosovo and Serbia. And the question for Britain is: Will Kosovo prove to be a successful example of the Blair...
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KOSOVO: ONLY 45 PERCENT PARTICIPATE IN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION.
News Wire article from: Interpress Service; 11/23/2007; 700+ words
; ...elections in the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo to confirm that ethnic Albanians firmly...independence promised by their leaders. Kosovo Albanians, however, appeared disillusioned...only 29 percent of survey respondents in Kosovo said they were satisfied with the work...
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Kosovo press divided over OIC resolution.
Newspaper article from: BBC Monitoring International Reports; 5/26/2009; 700+ words
; ...Radio B92 website, on 26 May Pristina - Kosovo President and Prime Minister Fatmir Sejdiu...for their adoption of a resolution on Kosovo. Sejdiu and Thaci said that the document...all the states that support the state of Kosovo. Even though only 13 of the Islamic Conference...
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Kosovo's Ethnic Albanians Mourn Rugova
News Wire article from: AP Online; 1/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...AP Online 01-22-2006 Dateline: PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro A Kosovo Albanian man reads the newspaper with news on the death of Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova in Kosovo's capital Pristina on Sunday, Jan 22, 2006. Rugova who had been...
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Kosovo declares independence from Serbia; Russia protests, warning it will stir conflict
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 2/18/2008; ; 700+ words
; A decade ago, Kosovo rumbled with artillery fire as ethnic...the disputed province the Republic of Kosovo, and pledged to make it a democratic...acronym for the now-disbanded rebel Kosovo Liberation Army. They waved American...
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Kosovo's new constitution goes into force after 9 years of U.N. administration
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 6/15/2008; ; 700+ words
; Kosovo's constitution went into force Sunday...threatens to worsen ethnic tensions between Kosovo's Albanians and Serbs. Security in the...police station, wounding one officer. Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders are to mark...
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Kosovo's government takes control with new charter
News Wire article from: AP Online; 6/15/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...pobj:XFD101-0615081109 --> Kosovo's government took control of the newly...threatens to worsen ethnic tensions between Kosovo's majority Albanians and Serb minority...police station, wounding one officer. Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders marked the...
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Kosovo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kosovo , Albanian Kosova, Serbian Kosovo i Metohija and Kosmet, officially Republic of Kosovo, republic (2002 est. pop. 1,900,000), 4,126 sq mi (10,686 sq km), SE Europe, a former province of Serbia that unilaterally declared...
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Kosovo Crisis (1999)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
Kosovo Crisis (1999). In spring 1999, a major crisis erupted over Kosovo, the southernmost province of the Federal Republic...protested, then formed a rebel terrorist group, the Kosovo Liberation Army, seeking independence. In early...
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Kosovo Bombing
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
KOSOVO BOMBING KOSOVO BOMBING. In the aftermath of the Bosnian peace agreement, which the...l995 in Dayton Ohio, conflict in the Balkans soon spilled over into Kosovo, a province of Serbia. There, increasing Serbian repression directed...
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Kosovo, NATO Intervention
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
Kosovo, NATO Intervention █ JUDSON KNIGHT...Organization) action in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo in 1999, marked the first time the organization...It proved a success, restoring peace to Kosovo and helping to set in motion events that...
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Kosovo Field
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kosovo Field kô´sôvô , Serbian Kosovo Polje [field of the black birds], WSW of Priština, Kosovo, site of a battle in which the Turks under Sultan Murad I defeated Serbia and its Bosnian, Montenegrin...
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