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The Roman province of Dardania included eastern parts of modern Kosovo, while its western part belonged to the newly formed Roman province of Prevalitana with its capital Doclea. The Romans colonised the region and founded several cities. Roman province of Dardania in the 4th century AD Forts and settlements in late antiquity and medieval Kosovo
Municipium Dardanorum [3] or Dardanicum [4] is located in North Kosovo, approximately 27 kilometres north of Mitrovica, in the village of Sočanica, Leposavic municipality.It existed as a prehistoric settlement at first, but continued to develop and change to become a typical ancient Roman town during the period from the last decades of the 1st century, until the first part of the 4th century AD.
According to the 2012 European Social Survey, the population of Kosovo was about 88% Muslim, 5.8% Catholic, 2.9% Eastern Orthodox, 2.9% irreligious, 0.1% Protestant and 0.4% another religion. [ 8 ] In 2010, according to Pew Research Center , Kosovo had 93.8% Muslims and 6.1% Christians (mainly Orthodox but also Catholics and even Protestants).
Kosovo is a secular state with no state religion; freedom of belief, conscience and religion is explicitly guaranteed in the Constitution of Kosovo. [ 246 ] [ 181 ] [ 182 ] Kosovar society is strongly secularised and is ranked first in Southern Europe and ninth in the world as free and equal for tolerance towards religion and atheism .
Christianity in Kosovo has a long-standing tradition dating to the Roman Empire. The entire Balkan region had been Christianized by the Roman, Byzantine , First Bulgarian Empire , Serbian Kingdom , Second Bulgarian Empire , and Serbian Empire till 13th century.
Name of the province changed to Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo; 1969 – 70 – The Universiteti i Prishtinës was founded [89] 1971: A higher level of autonomy is devolved to Kosovo's authorities. 1974 – The Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo significantly increased its autonomy within the Socialist Republic of Serbia [67]
Ulpiana [1] [2] [3] was an ancient Roman [4] city located in what is today Kosovo. It was also named Justiniana Secunda (Latin: Iustiniana Secunda, Albanian: Justinianë Sekundë. [5] Ulpiana is located in the municipality of Gračanica, 12 km southeast of Pristina.
According to these, the regions of Kosovska Mitrovica and Kosovo Polje were settled mostly by Serbs, whereas most of the territory of western and eastern parts of today's province was settled by Muslim Albanians. An Austrian statistics [46] published in 1899 estimated about the population of the Kosovo Vilayet: 349,350