Kosovo

Kosovo (Albanian: Kosovë nai to Kosova; Serbian Cyrillic: Косово; Serbian Latin: Kosovo), Balkans ke ek des hae.

Pahile je jamana me ii Dardani ke ek hissa rahaa, aur Roman, Byzantine, Bulgarian, Serbian and Ottoman Empires, tab Kingdom of Serbia, Italian Empire aaur Yugoslavia ke niche rahaa. 1999 me NATO ke bombing ke baad ii territory United Nations (UNMIK) ke administration ke niche aais. 

The Assembly of Kosovo declared indepedence in February 2008. This is disputed by Serbia, and most other states. Serbia still sees the territory as Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (). 

To the north and east of Kosovo is the rest of Serbia. To the south of Kosovo is the Republic of Macedonia. To the west of Kosovo are the Albania and Montenegro. The capital is Prishtina. Prishtina is also Kosovo's largest city. About two million people live in Kosovo. A majority of them are of Albanian origin, but there are also Serbs living in the most northern part of Kosovo.

 References 

 History of Kosovo and Metohija 
 The Rastko Project
 Coordination Center of SCG and the Republic of Serbia for Kosovo 
 Eastern Orthodox Resource Centre
 Southern Serbia: The second Kosovo?
 Hugo Roth, Kosovo Origins : an historian's comprehensive overview 

 Bibliography 
Dušan T. Bataković, The Kosovo Chronicles, Plato Books, Belgrade 1992.
R. Petrović, M. Blagojević, The Migration of the Serbs and Montenegrins from Kosovo and Metohija, SASA, Belgrade 1992,
Dušan T. Bataković, Kosovo. La spirale de la haine, L'Age d'Homme,  Lausanne 1998.
Kosovo-Kosova. Confrontation or Coexistence, Nijmegen: University of Nijmegen & Political Cultural Centre 042 1996.
Kosovo. Avoiding Another Balkan War,Thanos Veremis & Evangelos Kofos, (eds.), Athens:Eliamep & University of Athens, 1998.
Kosovo. Contending Voices on Balkan Interventions, William Joseph Buckley, ed.,William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan &  Cambridge U. K 2000
Kosovo and Metohija. Living in the Enclave, D. T. Bataković (ed.), Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade 2007, 314 p. ISBN 978-86-7179-052-9
Jean-Arnault Dérens,  Kosovo. Année zéro, préface de Marek Antoni Nowick,i Paris: Paris-Méditerranée, 2004.   
Dušan T. Bataković, Kosovo. Un conflit sans fin? Lausanne: L'Age d'Homme 2008. 322 p. ISBN 978-2-8251-3875-5
Dušan T. Bataković, Serbia's Kosovo Drama. A Historical Perspective, Belgrade: Čigoja Štampa, 2012, 369 p. ISBN 978-86-7558-903-7