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  2. List of wars involving Kosovo - Wikipedia

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    Kosovo Albanians. Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes: Victory. Albanians under Azem Galica defeat Yugoslav forces, and capture Drenica and most of Metohija. As a result the Neutral Zone of Junik is established in 1921. Conflict in the Neutral Zone of Junik (1921) Kachaks. Kosovo Albanians. Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes: Victory

  3. 20th-century history of Kosovo - Wikipedia

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    In March 2004, Kosovo experienced its worst inter-ethnic violence since the Kosovo War. The unrest in 2004 was sparked by a series of minor events that soon cascaded into large-scale riots. Kosovo Albanians mobs burned hundreds of Serbian houses, Serbian Orthodox Church sites (including some medieval churches and monasteries) and UN facilities.

  4. Kosovo War - Wikipedia

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    In 2008, Carla Del Ponte published a book in which she alleged that, after the end of the war in 1999, Kosovo Albanians were smuggling organs of between 100 and 300 Serbs and other minorities from the province to Albania. [331] In March 2005, a UN tribunal indicted Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj for war crimes against the Serbs. On 8 ...

  5. Kosovo Albanians - Wikipedia

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    According to the 1991 Yugoslav census, boycotted by Albanians, there were 1,596,072 ethnic Albanians in Kosovo or 81.6% of population. By the estimation in the year 2000, there were between 1,584,000 and 1,733,600 Albanians in Kosovo or 88% of population; as of 2011, [11] their population share is 92.93%.

  6. Kosovo during World War II - Wikipedia

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    Kosovo during the Second World War was in a very dramatic period, because different currents clashed, bringing constant tensions within it. During World War II, the region of Kosovo was split into three occupational zones: Italian, German, and Bulgarian. Partisans from Albania and Yugoslavia led the fight for Kosovo's independence from the ...

  7. History of Kosovo - Wikipedia

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    During the New Year's Eve between 1943 and 1944, Albanian and Yugoslav partisans gathered at the town of Bujan, near Kukës in northern Albania, where they held a conference in which they discussed the fate of Kosovo after the war. Both Albanian and Yugoslav communists signed the agreement, according to which Kosovo would have the right to ...

  8. Kosovars Who Rebuilt War-Torn Village Face New Threat As ...

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    In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...

  9. Kosovo during World War I - Wikipedia

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    Kosovo during World War I was initially, for about a year, completely filled with Serbian military forces, which retreated towards Albania to continue further to Corfu. After the occupation of the territories by Austria-Hungary , the German Empire , and the Kingdom of Bulgaria as allies in the First World War, the occupied territories were ...