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10 June: Following the NATO bombing and end of the war, Yugoslav forces withdraw from Kosovo. [84] 11 June: Following the end of the war and departure of Yugoslav forces, KLA takes control of Prizren. [85] 1999: Operation Kinetic (1999). 1400 Canadian troops deployed in Kosovo.
7 April 1939: During World War II, the majority of Kosovo was part of the Italian occupation of Albania. 1940 – 6,792 Kosovars emigrated to Turkey; 1941 (6 April) – The Invasion of Yugoslavia by Hitler's army [84] September 1943: Kosovo becomes part of Nazi German occupied Albania.
Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result Attack against Mehmed Ali Pasha (1878) League of Prizren Ottoman Empire: Victory: Serbian campaign the First Balkan War (1912–1913) Kosovo Albanians: Kingdom of Serbia: Defeat. Serbia defeats Ottoman forces and captures large areas of Kosovo. Serbian army commits massacres against Albanians living there.
The Kosovo War (Albanian: Lufta e Kosovës; Serbian: Косовски рат, Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] [ 61 ] It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian ...
The Prewar period of Kosovo refers to a period in the History of Kosovo which happened during the years of 1991–1995. It started on 22 September 1991, with the Decleration of the self-independent Republic of Kosova and ended with the start of the Insurgency in Kosovo (1995-1998) .
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Violent clashes injured 30 international peacekeepers and more than 50 ethnic Serbs, stirring fears of a renewal of the 1998-99 conflict that left more than 10,000 people dead, mostly Kosovar ...
Ethnic cleansing in Kosovo may refer to numerous different events, listed in reverse chronological order: War crimes in the Kosovo War, the ethnic cleansing campaigns that took place in the Kosovo war in the 20th century; Kosovo during World War II, the deportation and killings of mostly Serbs and Montenegrins in Kosovo during WWII