Original sentence: Kosovo's ethnic population has fluctuated wildly over the centuries and even recent decades, from predominantly Christian Serbian to predominantly Moslem Albanian, with the province's complex ethnic map currently including Albanians, Serbs, Bosniaks, Ladins, Turks, Roma,  Gorans, Jews and Janjevs.On Feb 17th 2008 2008 Kosovo's Parliament declared independence, with mixed recognition of that independence.Prior to that, the only territory called Kosovo was Kosovo Vilayet (1875 - 1912) in the Ottoman Empire, with borders significantly different from today's Kosovo
Edited sentence: Apart from the modern province (now a self-declared country, unrecognised by Serbia) and the vilayet, Kosovo was never a distinctive region.Kosovo's population has been ethnically diverse over the years, with the province's complex ethnic map including Ladins, Turks, Roma, Bosniaks, Gorans, Jews, Janjevs, Serbs, and Albanians.Prior to it, the only territory called Kosovo was Kosovo Vilayet in the Ottoman Empire, with borders drastically different from today's Kosovo