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Kosovo-Metohija

 

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Flag

Other Flags

Meaning/Origin of the Flag

Map

Numbers and Facts

History

Origin of the Country's Name



Flag

The Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija does not have its own flag.

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Other Flags

Flagge Fahne flag Kosovo Kosova
since 17th of Feb. 2008,
Flag of the "Republic of Kosovo",
ratio = 5:7,
Source, by: Wikipedia (DE)




Flagge Fahne flag Kosovo Kosova
ca. 1981–1992,
Unofficial flag of Kosovo-Metohija,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Flags of the World




Flagge Fahne flag Kosovo Kosova
Flag of Albania,
ratio = 5:7,
Source, by: Flags of the World



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Meaning/Origin of the Flag

Because of some demographic developments (Albanian's contingent: 1918 30%, 1945 50%, 1963 85%) e.g. resettlement programs and the high Albanian rate of birth, lived more Albanians in the Serbian Province of Kosovo as Serbs from ca. 1950. Thus there came up ethnical tensions, which caused in the years 1999/2000 in the unilateral intervention of the NATO in the escalating Kosovo Conflict in the expulsion of nearly the whole remaining Serbian population. The germinating national awareness of the Albanians within Yugoslavia created an own flag for the Albanian ethnic group in this country. The flag was seen as the unofficial flag of the Kosovo too, because the Albanians there are meanwhile in the majority. The flag was also flown during the Albanian riotings in the year 1981. The Albanians also demand at that time that the then autonomous Province of Kosovo within the Socialistic Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (1963–1992) should to be transformed into a of the same rank existing Yugoslav Republic. Not last because of that the autonomous status was repealed in the year 1990. The flag of the Kosovo Albanians shows in principle the flag of Albania, however in the then Yugoslav format of 1:2 completed by a five-pointed, gold-rimmed red star, the flag badge of the socialistic Yugoslavia. With the beginning collapse of Yugoslavia in the year 1991 there was the possibility to separate oneself completely from Yugoslavia. The "Republic of Kosovo" was unilateral proclaimed on 17th of February in 2008 and it was adoped a new flag. It is single-coloured blue and shows in its middle a stylized map of Kosovo, above that six five-pointed white stars. They stand for the ethnic groups of Kosovo and complete together with the clolour blue a "European" design. The colours blue and gold are defined hexadecimal and in CMYK, as blue = #244AA5 / 100|80|0|0 and gold = #D0A650 / 0|20|60|20. From this, the Pantone colours, blue = pt 294 and gold = pt 7407 can be derived.

Source: Wikipedia (D), Wikipedia (EN)

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Map

Location:

Source: CIA World Factbook

Map of the country:

Source: CIA World Factbook

The countries of former Yugoslavia:
interaktive Landkarte - interactive map
Map: Volker Preuß


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Numbers and Facts

Area: 4.200 square miles

Inhabitants: 1.907.592 (2018), thereof 88% Albanians, still ca. 7% Serbs

Religions: 97,4% Muslim, 1,6% Othodox Christians

Density of Population: 454 inh./sq.mi.

Capital: Pristina, 145.149 inh. (2011)

official Languagen: Serbian, Albanian

Currency: 1 Euro (€) = 100 Cent

Time Zone: GMT + 1 h

Source: Wikipedia (D)

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History

antiquity · settlement by Thrakian and Illyrian tribes

33–29 B.C. · Roman conquest

395 · at the partition of the Roman Empire comes the today's Kosovo to the East Roman Empire (Byzantium)

6th/7th century · immigration of the Serbs

12th century · Kosovo is a pivotal component of the arising Serbian Empire

13th/14th century · Serbia conquers Macedonia and Bosnia, Epirus, Thessalia and Albania

1346 · Stephan Dusan gets crowned to the "Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks"

1355 · death of Emperor Stephan, the Great Serbian Empire disintegrates into particular states

1371 · the Turks strike the Serbs near the Maritza River

1389 · the Turks strike the Serbs on the Amselfeld, Serbia (and therewith Kosovo) gets a tribute duty, Zeta (since 1500 named Montenegro) can keep its independence

1459 · Serbia becomes a part of the Ottoman Empire

1690 · first expulsions of Serbs from the Kosovo, Albanians move up from the south

1912–1913 · Balkan Wars, the Ottoman Empire has to cede Kosovo and Northern Macedonia to Serbia, Kosovo becomes a Serbian province

1918 · Kosovo becomes as a part of the Serbian Banovina (province) of Zeta a part of the "Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes", which was renamed in 1929 into Yugoslavia

1941–1945 · Yugoslavia gets dissolved during the Second World War, Serbia (and therewith Kosovo) comes under German military government

1941–1946 · Yugoslavia is during the Second World War location of a merciless partisan and civil war between communists (under J.P.Tito), republicans, monarchists and nationalists, the communists prevailed

29th of November in 1945 · Kosovo as Serbian province becomes a part of the by Tito proclaimed "Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia"

17th of April in 1963 · proclamation of the Socialist Republic of Serbia (within communist Yugoslavia), Kosovo becomes an automomous province

1974 · extension of the autonomy rights

1981 · Albanian riotings, tensions between Albanians and Serbs, state of emergency

1990 · reform of constitution, the autonomy status of the Kosovo is abolished

1991–1992 · Yugoslavia dissolves into its particular states

27th of April in 1992 · Serbia and Montenegro proclaim the "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia"

1991–1995 · war between Yugoslavia and Croatia/Bosnia-Hercegovina

1998 · in Kosovo forces the UÇK (Albanian Liberation Army of the Kosovo) its struggle for the states independence of the Kosovo, because of the Serbian counteractions many Albanians flee from the Kosovo

1999 · the NATO seizes unilaterally party for the UÇK, intervenes in the war of Serbia for its territorial integrity and bombards extendedly Serbian targets in the Kosovo as well as in Serbia itself, occupation of the Kosovo by KFOR-troops of the NATO for "protection against encroachments of Yugoslav troops", assassination and expulsion of the Serbian population from the Kosovo

2002 · the Serbian province Kosovo elects a "President", Ibrahim Rugova

4th of February in 2003 · new constitution, Yugoslavia gets detached by the "Federal Republic of Serbia and Montenegro"

17th of February in 2008 · Kosovo declares unilateral its independence from Serbia (international partially recognized)

Source: Atlas zur Geschichte, Wikipedia (D), World Statesmen

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Origin of the Country's Name

The name "Kosovo " goes back to the Serbian landscape name "Kosovo Polje ," the "Blackbird Field," a landscape in the central part of today's Kosovo. Metohija is actually only the south-west of the country. The name is of Greek origin and is to translate as "Convent's Estate".

Source: Wikipedia (D)

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Kindly supported by: Kurt W. Junges (D)


 

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