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Hi, i have a genuine question. If Kosovo has historically been occupied by Albanians, how is it that they do not have their own name for Kosovo?. The Albanian name, Kossova, is derived from Kosovo which in Serbian means "of blackbirds" and was named after the famous Kosovo Polje, or the "field of blackbirds" where the Serbs were defeated by the Turks in 1389. -ASD (October 2009) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.77.123.88 (talk) 05:09, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
This article, as well as Albanians in Kosovo, should have a part, be that in Culture or Religion part attached to it, that the conflicts amongst Albanians and Serbs were never religious. The criminal actions that Milosevic's troops commited over religious sites in Kosovo, or the unrests in march 2004 are not any indication that the people of Kosovo supported them or had religious intolerance towards each other. The source is only amongst some that proves me right. Ilir pz 23:19, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
I love how Serbs make up facts & history as they go along and as the need arises. Now it's Masses of Albanian Muslims who "immigrated" into Kosovo. Never mind the fact that Illyrians-Dardanians, and later on their descendants the present day Albanians, were there way before the Slavs invaded in the 6-8th century. But then again what can you expect from a nation whose whole history and national psyche is drenched in propaganda. God help them, for they fail to see how miserably they have failed in every single initiative that they ever took. GD —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.160.202.164 (talk) 22:00, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Yes; The majority of Illyrians were assimilated by SLAVS. SO ALbanians are NOT illyrians 'successors' as you like to make up. If anything it is slavs. Albanians are a small minority of Illyrians that remained in the albania region that were not assimilated by slavs.
The Albanians converted to Islam during ottoman times. THey then migrated to Kosovo after many serbs were killed and mistreated by Muslims. LAter in the 19th century, this mistreatment continued, and many left yet again. In contrast Albanians had 12 children per family, and grew like rabbits. --Hxseeker 13:22, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
It’s curious to see that there is no images of persons in this article, just Orthodox Church icons. Where is the Serbian people from Kosovo? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.232.230.203 (talk) 07:15, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
I changed this sentence:
To this:
And I added this:
Alan. --84.71.116.44 22:54, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Her father was Montenegrin not from kosovo —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.44.72.247 (talk) 22:39, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm sorry but this article seems to be completely off base. It is an article about SERBS IN KOSOVO, not an article about the history of Kosovo which takes up most of the articles space. There should be sections added about famous Serbs who came from Kosovo and should in general focus much more on the culture and customs of Serbs from Kosovo rather than the simply the history itself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yugo91aesop (talk • contribs) 19:35, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
User:Kedadi is deleting my edits without any good reason and he is not trying to discuss it first. This is your chance to explain yourself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shanticm (talk • contribs) 01:20, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
See WP:NOTNEWS, point #4. First of all your edits are badly written (they do not match the WP MOS, compare your edits with the rest of article) and are simply daily news from Serbian sources (only one from OSCE). I'm not saying that such things do not happen but it simply is not encyclopedic material, but more like news headlines. Cheers. kedadial 21:34, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
point #4 "While news coverage can be useful source material for encyclopedic topics, most newsworthy events do not qualify for inclusion. For example, routine news reporting on things like announcements, sports, or celebrities is not a sufficient basis for inclusion in the encyclopedia." This is relevant material regarding oppresion of an ethnic group mentioned in the article not trivia not sports not celebrity stuff. If my edits do noy match WP MOS then edit it to be matched do not deleted it because you are deleting it because you do not like the truth that Albanians attacks Serbs because they are Serbs. So what if they are Serbian sources? You are implying they are not worthy because they are Serbian sources? Because of that opinion i strongly think that this edit should stay because your attitude it is in accordance of what Albanians are doing to Serbs in Kosovo and mentioned in my edits. If i could find credible source like Albanian as you suggest it i would inlude it but Albanians do not like to report of things so negative to them like those attacks are. This revertion will go indefinetelly. You can not hide the truth or the facts that Serbs are right now oppresed party in Kosovo. Thing hace changed in last 10 years. Albanians turned from oppresed to oppressors. Shanticm (talk) 08:31, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
While I understand that this is a very controversial topic, this article, particularly the section on the 1998-1999 war is completely unbalanced and needs to be addressed. I would like to draw attention to the following statements; "After the Dayton Agreement of 1995, the Kosovo Liberation Army started terror against the Serbian civilians and Yugoslav army and police, bombing police stations and government buildings, killing Yugoslav police and innocent people of all nationalities, even Albanians who were not on their side." (Unsourced and opinionated)
"since this was a terror organization it was hard to establish civilians from terrorists" (Opinionated, original research, unsourced and sounds like an attempt to justify ethnic cleansing of Albanians)
"they (the KLA) deliberately wanted civilians to die since this would trigger an international reaction" (Unsourced, Original research, pov)
"When UN-authorities took over administrative power in Kosovo in accordance with UN-Resolution 1244, they later found out that the maximum number of killed in the conflict before NATO bombing was 12,000 people, these were from all of Kosovo's ethnic groups." (Absolutely no mention that the vast majority (around 10,000-11,000) of these were Albanians)
"With the arrival of NATO, a large number of Serbs fled the region, estimated at 100,000 by the UNHCR. Around 120,000 remain in Kosovo and oppose any rule by Albanians." (All unsourced, no mention of the number of Albanians who fled the region due to Serb forces (estimated 863,000 by OSCE, at the very least 500,000)
I hope I do not even have to explain why the "Recent attacks on Serbs in Kosovo" (which should defiantly be mentioned, not in the newspaper-style fashion with which they are reported at the moment), is unencyclopedic. The "2008-present" section is also very dubious, and frankly quite ridiculous, with the only source being a Serbian newspaper. Thannad (talk) 17:40, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Thank you, will try to make a few changes. Thannad (talk) 17:49, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Perhaps, someone could elaborate on the news that some of the Kosovo Serbs have requested Russian citizenship? http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-11/15/c_131246605.htm KNewman (talk) 14:29, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
This map:
...is incorrect. The Gorani do reside in the far south but they are not a majority, Albanians form a majority there in Dragaš. Evlekis (Евлекис) 17:47, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
I can understand why some editors want to cite , since it appears to say that there were 250k refugees of which a vast majority were Serbs; but that source is only counting a narrow subset of refugees. Other sources, counting all refugees, yield a much larger number; and the majority of those are Kosovo Albanian, which is hardly surprising considering the widespread campaign of ethnic cleansing by Serb forces. bobrayner (talk) 22:53, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
We're not here to write POV forks. The reality is that a much larger number of refugees fled Kosovo; it is deceptive to deliberately restrict that to a much smaller subset of refugees in order to make it look like Serbs are the victims. You may not agree with reliable sources, but that doesn't mean you can put your own version of reality in the article.
... and so on. There are lots more sources. However, Whitewriter's version of events is completely different: "Out of 250,000 refugees in the aftermath of the 1999 conflict, an overwhelming majority are Kosovo Serbs."
That's because it's highly selective use of one particular source which is just counting refugees who only left a while after the war, at a time when many Serbs in Kosovo were worried about reprisals. You are entitled to your own beliefs but you are not entitled to your own reality. Will you revert the POV that you put into the article? bobrayner (talk) 11:58, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
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