Wq/syl/ꠇꠍꠜꠅ

ꠀꠋꠞꠦꠎ ꠝꠣꠔꠕꠘꠦ ꠅꠘꠥꠛꠣꠖ ꠇꠞꠣꠞ ꠅꠘꠥꠞꠥꠗ ⁕ ꠇꠤꠀꠘꠕꠘꠦ ꠀꠘꠣ ꠅꠁꠍꠦ ꠀꠞ ꠇꠣꠞ ꠇꠣꠞ ꠅꠛꠖꠣꠘ ꠀꠍꠦ ꠁꠔꠣ ꠖꠦꠈꠣꠞ ꠟꠣꠉꠤ en:q:ꠇꠍꠜꠅ ꠖꠦꠈꠃꠇ꠆ꠇꠣ ⁕

ꠇꠍꠜꠅ (алб. Kosovë/Kosova, серб. Косово/Kosovo) is a partially recognized state on the Balkan Peninsula. Inhabited mainly by Albanians (90%). Other minorities are Serbs, Gorans, Bosniaks, Turks, Ashkali, etc. The area is 10,000 km². The official languages ​​are Albanian and Serbian.

Flag of Kosovo

Distribution of ethnic groups within Kosovo, as of the 2011 census.

Quotes

The Serbs do not want to renounce Kosovo and they remember how, by the late 13th century, the plain was conquered by Prince Štefan Nemanja and that there are no records of an Albanian presence [there]. [The Albanians], on the other hand, declare themselves to be descendants of the Illyrians, thus indigenous for thousands of years, when the Serbs were God knows where. All places in Kosovo have Slavic names. Of the Albanians, who at that period had already converted to Islam, one hears of them only after the Turkish occupation, when they became its masters.

— Demetriu Volcic (1993)

Yugoslavia cannot exist without Kosovo! Yugoslavia will become disintegrated without Kosovo! Yugoslavia and Serbia will not give up Kosovo!

— Slobodan Milošević, discurso en Kosovo Polje 24 April 1987.

Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia.

— Josip Broz Tito, April 1980.

Forget all the nonsense that you may have heard about Kosovo being "the Jerusalem" of Serbia. It may contain some beautiful and ancient Serbian and Serbian Orthodox cultural sites, but it is much more like Serbia's West Bank or Gaza, with a sweltering, penned-up, subject population who were for generations treated as if they were human refuse in the land of their own birth.

— Christopher Hitchens