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Kosovo is located in South-Eastern Europe, in the Balkans (or Balkan peninsula) and in the former Yugoslavia. Kosovo is also called by the Serbian authorities Kosovo and Metohija . Kosovo is the disputed borderland between Serbia and Albania. About 90 per cent of its two million inhabitants are Kosovo Albanians (Kosovars). Albanians are supposedly descended from the ancient Dardanians (Illyrians) who allegedly inhabited the western Balkans long before Slavs arrived in the sixth to eighth centuries AD.
The majority of its territory belonged to different states during history. It was removed to Byzantium by Serbia in 1170 and the territory was again occupied by the Ottoman Empire in 1459 and it was again part of Serbia since the Treaty of …show more content…

Since the peace agreements of Kumanovo, dated the same day, a NATO force, KFOR, ensures peace and order in this region. Negotiations on the status of Kosovo between Serbian and Kosovar authorities have long remained at an impasse, the first speaking only broad autonomy for Kosovo within Serbia, the latter wanting …show more content…

Kosovo, whose majority of the population was Albanian, had a limited status within the SFRY and the rights of the Albanian population were not respected. The other constitutions of the SFRY of 1953, 1963 continued in the same sense as the constitution of January 1946, giving only a limited role to Kosovo in the SFRY.

The SFRY Constitution of 1974 recognized Kosovo as an Autonomous Province attached to the Socialist Republic of Serbia and having a broader autonomy. During the 1970s, the situation of the Albanian population of Kosovo has improved. After the death of Josip Broz Tito, May 4, 1980, the political situation was not the same in Yugoslavia. Josip Broz Tito was the guarantor of the unity of the SFRY. The nationalist impulses awoke in Yugoslavia after his death.
The Republics of Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina asked the secession of the SFRY. Slovenia gained independence, but Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia have been engaged in a bloody war (the War of Yugoslavia) with the Republic of

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