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ETHNIC, CONFESSIONAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS IN METOHIJA DURING THE 1830’s

ETHNIC, CONFESSIONAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS IN METOHIJA DURING THE 1830’s Research on the topics mentioned here has been undertaken for two scientific reasons. First, the 1830’s were a period during which a kind of borderline was created in the regional development of Metohija (i.e., in the pashaluks of Prizren, Djakovica and Pec) as far as the Porte. Second, once the research theme

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At least 2 killed in blast at 500-strong Anti-War rally in Kharkov, Ukraine (“Right Sector” behind?)

Earlier in the day, 133 Ukrainian soldiers, freed as part of a prisoner swap with the rebel forces, arrived in Kharkov. The march in Kharkov was organized in commemoration of the 2014 Maidan events, which brought about regime change in Ukraine. Kharkov, in northeastern Ukraine, is the country’s second largest city in terms of population. The Kharkov region is under Kiev control and is close to the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.

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CHRONOLOGY OF SERBO-ALBANIAN RELATIONS 1878 – MARCH POGROM 2004

  June 10, 1878                       The “League for Defense of Arbanas People’s Rights” established in Prizren (so-called Prizren League). June (1) 13, 1878                  Pursuant to the “Skadar Memorandum”, the forming of territorial and ethnical Albania was requested from the great powers and protection (protectorate) over it. April 18–19, 1879                Intrusion of around 1.000 kacaks across the border line at Prepolac and

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Semantic field of soul concept in Serbian language

Semantic field of soul concept in Serbian language Both speech and language are representing ”energiae” activities in which subject forms its own image of world, ”personal world”. In that act subject and object meet each other in language medium as ”energiae”, living, active reality which is represented in language system(1). Soul concept, as a part of that world image and

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The Past of the Kosovo-Metohija Serbs 1912-1918

The Past of the Kosovo-Metohija Serbs 1912-1918 The liberation of Kosovo and Metohija in 1912 marked the beginning of a new era in its history and folk life. After centuries-lasting Turkish rule the central area of historical Old Serbia was freed. The difficult and painful past of the Kosovo-Metohija Serbs was illuminated as national community life integrated with other populations

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Kosovo and Metohija, From the Serbian-Turkish Wars of 1876-1878

Kosovo and Metohija, From the Serbian-Turkish Wars of 1876-1878 Until Liberation From Centuries-lasting Turkish Rule in 1912 During the second half of the 19th century, Serbia led two different wars in the struggle for liberation from Turkey. The 1876 campaign failed, but the war waged between December 1877 and January 1878 ended with success when the Serbian army (composed of

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ON POPULATION IN THE PRIZREN VILAYET BEFORE THE SERBIAN-TURKISH WARS OF 1876-1878

ON POPULATION IN THE PRIZREN VILAYET BEFORE THE SERBIAN-TURKISH WARS OF 1876-1878 There are historical problems whenever addressing population issues in the Prizren “vilayet” during the third quarter of the 19th century. More specifically, the administrative part known as the “mutessarifluk” was of deep concern because of how national life and history of Serbs in the Ottoman Empire, (as well

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