The Vilayet of Kosovo (Ottoman Turkish: ولايت قوصوه, Vilâyet-i Kosova; Turkish: Kosova Vilayeti; Albanian: Vilajeti i Kosovës; Serbian: Косовски вилајет...

four Ottoman vilayets with substantial ethnic Albanian populations: Kosovo Vilayet, Scutari Vilayet, Manastir Vilayet, and Janina Vilayet. In some proposals...

Kırşehir. Vilayet of Konya: sanjaks of Konya, Teke, Hamid, Niğde, Burdur. Vilayet of Kastamonu: sanjaks of Kastamonu, Boli, Sinop, Çankırı. Kosovo Vilayet Vilayet...

Kosovo was part of the Ottoman Empire from 1455 to 1912, at first as part of the eyalet of Rumelia, and from 1864 as a separate Kosovo Vilayet. During...

Vilayet in 1877. This was when Kosovo was used as the name of the entire territory for the first time. In 1913 the Kosovo Vilayet was incorporated into the...

Ottoman Kosovo Vilayet was quite different from modern-day Kosovo. According to Aram Andonyan and Zavren Biberyan, in 1908, the Kosovo Vilayet, which included...

in the Kosovo Vilayet during the first two to four months, before the violence climaxed. The total number of Albanians that were killed in Kosovo and Macedonia...

Ottoman Empire into one Albanian vilayet. However at that time Serbs consisted about 25% of the whole Vilayet of Kosovo's overall population and were opposing...

commonly Дунавски вилает, Danube Vilayet; French: Vilayet du Danube) was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire from 1864...

Vilayet of Kosovo was created in 1877. The entire territory that corresponds to today's country is commonly referred to in English simply as Kosovo and...

violently expelled by the Serb army from the Sanjak of Niš and fled to the Kosovo Vilayet. Within the context of the Serbian–Ottoman Wars, the Sultan Abdul Hamid...

and anticipated the founding of a single Albanian vilayet that would encompass the vilayets of Kosovo, Monastir, Janina and Scutari. Contrary to what is...

of Kosovo Vilayet and was led by Hasan Pristina, Nexhip Draga, Bajram Curri, Riza bej Gjakova and others. Prishtina who was in the Kosovo Vilayet during...

The Battle of Kosovo took place on 15 June 1389 between an army led by the Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović and an invading army of the Ottoman Empire...

Kosovo Vilayet captured from the Ottoman Empire in 1912. In addition to them, numbers of state bureaucrats and their families also settled in Kosovo....

This is a list of massacres that happened in Kosovo throughout history. Serbian–Ottoman Wars (1876–1878) Balkan Wars (First Balkan War • Second Balkan...

former Sanjak of Niș to the Turkish Vilayet of Kosovo and Macedonia. As a result, Serb civilians in the Kosovo Vilayet were subjected to attacks by some...

were expelled by the Serb army from the Sanjak of Niș and fled to the Kosovo Vilayet. The largest part of Sanjak of Niš was annexed by the Principality of...

prish-TEE-nə, US: /ˈprɪʃtɪnə/ PRISHT-in-ə) is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative center of the eponymous municipality and district...

of Prizren was transferred to the Kosovo Vilayet, and the Sanjak of Dibra was transferred to the Monastir Vilayet. Following the territorial transfers...

Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, a region of Serbia heavily populated by ethnic Albanians, resulted in an insurrection by the Kosovo Liberation Army...

through engagement in the First and Second Balkan Wars – Sandžak-Raška, Kosovo Vilayet and Vardar Macedonia were annexed. At the end of World War I in 1918...

refugees from Serbia spread out within the vilayet of Kosovo. The Ottoman governor of the Vilayet of Kosovo estimated in 1881 the refugees number to be...

lived in the Independent State of Croatia. Anti-Serb sentiment in the Kosovo Vilayet grew as a result of the Ottoman-Serb and Ottoman-Greek conflicts during...

the Serb army from most parts of the Sanjak of Niş and fled to the Kosovo Vilayet during and after the Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–78), that is by 1881...

as an Albanian. He was born in a small village within İpek Sanjak, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire in 1846. Originating from a humble background and being...

Ottomans' Kosovo Province (vilayet). The Ottoman registers from the 15th-16th century indicate that the villages in the Prizren-Has region in Kosovo had a...

similarly seeking autonomy. Instead of the pashalik, the vilayets of Scutari and that of Kosovo were created. By removing the Timar system, the Sublime...

Sanjak of Novi Pazar belonged to the Vilayet of Bosnia, prior to becoming a part of the newly established Kosovo Vilayet in 1878. It included most of the...

(present-day Gökçeada in Turkey), he moved as a young man at the Vilayet of Kosovo to his family's ancestral hometown in the city of Kalkandelen (present-day...