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Map of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija. The Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (Serbian: Косово и Метохиja, romanized: Kosovo i Metohija; Albanian: Kosova dhe Metohia), commonly known as Kosovo (Serbian: Косово; Albanian: Kosova) and abbreviated to Kosmet (from Kosovo and Metohija; Serbian: Космет) or KiM (Serbian: КиМ), is an autonomous ...
Countries with at least one autonomous area. This list of autonomous areas arranged by country gives an overview of autonomous areas of the world. An autonomous area is defined as an area of a country that has a degree of autonomy, or has freedom from an external authority.
The Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (Serbo-Croatian: Аутономна Покрајина Косово и Метохија / Autonomna Pokrajina Kosovo i Metohija, Albanian: Krahina Autonome e Kosovës dhe Metohisë) was the name used from 1963 to 1968, when the term "Metohija" was dropped, [3] and the prefix "Socialist" was added.
1 Area with Special Administrative Status: 183 counties: 540 Payams: 2,500 Bomas: Spain: Regional 17 autonomous communities (comunidades autónomas) 50 provinces (provincias) 477 comarcas: 8,129 municipalities (municipios) 2 autonomous municipalities, Ceuta and Melilla, North African coast 3 places of sovereignty (plazas de soberanía) Sri ...
In 1945, at the conclusion of the Second World War, Kosovo was organised within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) as the Autonomous Region of Kosovo and Metohija. In 1963 the region was reorganised as the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija with increased autonomy and was renamed as the Socialist Autonomous Province of ...
The existing province took shape in 1945 as the Autonomous Region of Kosovo and Metohija, with a final demarcation in 1959. [100] [101] Until 1945, the only entity bearing the name of Kosovo in the late modern period had been the Vilayet of Kosovo, a political unit created by the Ottoman Empire in 1877. However, those borders were different. [102]
Metohija (Serbian Cyrillic: Метохија, pronounced), also known in Albanian as Dukagjini, [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. The region covers 35% (3,891 km 2) of Kosovo's total area.
Kosovo is administratively subdivided into districts (Albanian: rajone, Serbian: окрузи / okruzi). [1] They are further subdivided into municipalities ( Albanian : komuna , Serbian : општина / opština ).