Category Archives: Jasmina Djekic

Documents from the Vienna Royal Archives confirm – the Albanian Nation was constructed by Austro-Hungary!

Editorial Board of SRBski FBReporter (СРБски ФБРепортер): The first text regards the research of the Bulgarian Historian Teodora Toleva about the origin of the Albanian nation, published at СРБски ФБРепортер. The text had a vast repercussion and to our big satisfaction caused interest of the reputed journalists and researchers. According to some announcements, a translation into Serbian of this Bulgarian historian’s

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YUGOSLAVIA, SERBIA AND KOSOVO HISTORY part III

The question of revision of the constitutional-legal position of Serbs was set anew immediately after the demonstrations in spring 1981. However, that initiative did not find the understanding of the other constituents of the Yugoslav Federation, whose consent was necessary. Redefining the position of the regions had become a condition of survival for the political leadership of Serbia which bore

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YUGOSLAVIA, SERBIA AND KOSOVO HISTORY – part II

Socialist Yugoslavia took special care about the educational and cultural emancipation of the Albanian population. The objective was clearly defined – a complete as possible achieving of equality and quick as possible cultural development of Kosovo and Metohija. In the days immediately after the liberation of Kosovo and Metohija, illiteracy ran as high as 84% of the population (over 90%

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YUGOSLAVIA, SERBIA AND KOSOVO – HISTORY part I

Serbia was the last Yugoslav area that was constituted as a federal unit.  This important constitutional act took place, in several phases, from November 1944 to August 1945. At the moment of convening the Big Antifascist People’s Liberation Assembly of Serbia (November 9 – 12, 1944) Kosovo and Metohija, equally as Vojvodina and Sandzak, were not formally in the composition

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THE KOSOVO COMMITTEE AND YUGOSLAV-ALBANIAN RELATIONS

The Party of South Muslims (Dzemiet) and the Kosovo Committee, by different methods of work but with the same final objective, influenced decisively on the political determinations of the Albanian population in the Yugoslav state. At the Congress in Skopje, held in mid December 1919, it was decided to found a political organization of “South Muslims” which would include Arbanas,

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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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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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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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