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Kosovafilm was the film industry, which releases movies in Albanian, created by Kosovar Albanian movie-makers. The National Theatre of Kosovo is the main theatre where plays are shown regularly by Albanian and international artists. Kosovo Albanian ethnic costume and dance.
During the Kosovo War in 1999, around 700,000 ethnic Albanians, [40] over 100,000 ethnic Serbs and more than 40,000 Bosniaks were forced out of Kosovo to neighbouring Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Serbia. After the United Nations took over administration of Kosovo following the war, the vast majority of the Albanian refugees ...
Albanian scholars from Albania and Kosovo place the number of Albanian refugees from 300,000 upward into the hundreds of thousands and state that they left Yugoslavia due to duress. [ 94 ] [ 95 ] [ 96 ] Other estimates given by scholars outside the Balkans for Kosovan Albanians that emigrated during 1918–1941 are between 90,000 and 150,000 or ...
The Kosovar government, the EU's statistical office, Eurostat, U.N. organizations and the World Bank are funding the census which wi Kosovo will conduct a nationwide census that includes surveying ...
Kosovars are predominantly ethnic Albanians. Kosovar citizenship is acquired by birth, adoption, naturalization, international treaties, or through some other specific forms. [ 1 ]
Some have come to Canada, and in 1999 the Canadian government created a program to offer safe haven to 7000 Kosovar Albanian refugees. They continue to appreciate their ethnic heritage and their Albanian national history, even though their ancestors may have left Albania several decades ago.
Kosovo’s Central Electoral Commission on Saturday approved referendums in four Serb-majority municipalities to be held on April 21 on whether to oust their ethnic Albanian mayors whose election ...
In 1989, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević, employing a mix of intimidation and political maneuvering, drastically reduced Kosovo's special autonomous status within Serbia and started cultural oppression of the ethnic Albanian population. [116] Kosovar Albanians responded with a non-violent separatist movement, employing widespread civil ...