Kosovo – A Short History

Abstract

Orientation: place, names and people -- Origins: Serbs, Albanians and Vlachs -- Medieval Kosovo before Prince Lazar: 850s-1380s -- The battle and the myth -- The last years of medieval Serbian Kosovo: 1389-1455 -- Early Ottoman Kosovo: 1450s-1580s -- War rebellion and religious life: 1580s-1680s -- The Austrian invasion and the 'Great Migration' of the Serbs: 1689-1690 -- Recovery and decline: 1690-1817 -- Reform and resistance: 1817-1878 -- Kosovo's other minorities: Vlachs, Gypsies, Turks, Jews and Circassians -- From the League of Prizren to the Young Turk revolution: 1878-1908 -- The great rebellions, the Serbian conquest and the First World War: 1908-1918 -- Kaçaks and colonists: 1918-1941 -- Occupied Kosovo in the Second World War: 1941-1945 -- Kosovo under Tito: 1945-1980 -- Kosovo after the death of Tito.