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Dervish Shaqa was the most famous rapsod in Kosovo. He was born in 1912 near Deçan. Because of the historical circumstances, in which was Kosovo the time he was alive, almost all of his songs are about war, brave warriors and his homeland. Poetry accompanied with cifteli, was the characteristic of Dervish Shaqa's creations.
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Under the Serbian system of administration, Kosovo is divided into five districts comprising 28 municipalities and 1 city. In 2000, UNMIK established a system with 7 districts [citation needed] and 30 municipalities. Serbia has not exercised effective control over Kosovo since 1999. For the UNMIK created districts of Kosovo, see Districts of ...
[1] [5] In Albania, the Gora region is located in Kukës County [1] and parts of it are subdivided in the Shishtavec and Zapod territorial units. Nearby, two Gorani settlements geographically located in the Polog region [ 6 ] [ 7 ] of North Macedonia are ethnographically and linguistically associated with the Gora region.
Between 1246 and 1255, Stefan Uroš I had reported Albanian toponyms in the Drenica valley. A chrysobull of the Serbian Tsar Stefan Dušan that was given to the Monastery of Saint Mihail and Gavril in Prizren between the years of 1348–1353 states the presence of Albanians in the Plains of Dukagjin, the vicinity of Prizren and in the villages of Drenica.
Metohija (Serbian Cyrillic: Метохија, pronounced), also known in Albanian as Dukagjin, [a] (Albanian: Rrafshi i Dukagjinit, pronounced [ˈrafʃi i dukaˈɟinit]) is a large basin and the name of the region covering the southwestern part of Kosovo.
[5] [6] The placename Obilić refers to the Serbian national hero Miloš Obilić who killed the Ottoman Sultan Murad I at the Battle of Kosovo (1389). In Albanian, the town is known as Obiliq (a transliteration of the Serbian name), while an alternative name (used by Albanians [ 7 ] ) was coined by the Albanological Institute, Kastriot , after ...
Television in Kosovo was first introduced in 1974. The Radio Television of Pristina was the first Albanian-speaking broadcaster in Kosovo, founded in 1974 following Radio Pristina's founding in 1945. It was forcefully shut down in 1990 by the Yugoslavian government, forbidding the flow of information through Kosovan airwaves during the Kosovo War.