Kosovo, [a] officially the Republic of Kosovo, [b] is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the north and east, and North Macedonia to the southeast.

In the early 20th century Kosovo was incorporated into Serbia (later part of Yugoslavia). By the second half of the century, the largely Muslim ethnic Albanians outnumbered the predominantly Eastern Orthodox Serbs in Kosovo, and interethnic tensions frequently roiled the province.

On 17 February 2008, representatives of the people of Kosovo [1] unilaterally declared Kosovo's independence and subsequently adopted the Constitution of Republic of Kosovo, which came into effect on 15 June 2008.

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Until 2008, Kosovo was a part of Serbia. On 17 February 2008, Kosovo declared independence and said it was now a separate country. Since then, 104 UN member countries have recognised Kosovo as an independent state.

Die Republik Kosovo, kurz der/das Kosovo (albanisch Kosovë/Kosova, serbisch Косово Kosovo), ist eine Republik in Südosteuropa auf dem westlichen Teil der Balkanhalbinsel.

Kosovo. Contending Voices on Balkan Interventions, William Joseph Buckley, ed., William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Míchigan & Cambridge U. K 2000 Kosovo and Metohija. Living in the Enclave, D. T. Bataković (ed.), Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade 2007, 314 p. ISBN 978-86-7179-052-9 Jean-Arnault Dérens, Kosovo.

Kosovo - Autonomy, Ethnicity, Politics: In 1971 amendments to the Yugoslav constitution granted Serbia’s two autonomous provinces, Kosovo and Vojvodina, nearly equal status with the six republics of Yugoslavia.

Kosovo a Metohija (alebo len Kosovo) zahŕňa dve oblasti – Kosovo a Metohiju. Kosovo sa rozkladá na východe krajiny a leží v ňom hlavné mesto Priština a Kosovo pole, miesto, na ktorom sa v roku 1389 odohrala významná bitka medzi Osmanskou ríšou a Srbskom so spojencami.

A bloody crackdown by Serbian forces on Kosovo Albanian separatists in 1998-1999 ended after NATO intervention. Kosovo declared independence on 17 February 2008; its independence is recognized by about half of the UN member states (101 out of 193; plus Taiwan, Cook Islands and Niue.)