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The Albanians of Kosovo (Albanian: Shqiptarët e Kosovës, pronounced[ʃcipˈtaɾətɛkɔˈsɔvəs]), also commonly called Kosovo Albanians, Kosovan Albanians or Kosovars (Albanian: Kosovarët), constitute the largest ethnic group in Kosovo.
Kosovo Albanians belong to the ethnic Albanian sub-group of Ghegs,[10] who inhabit the north of Albania, north of the Shkumbin river, Kosovo, southern Serbia, and western parts of North Macedonia. They speak Gheg Albanian, more specifically the Northwestern and Northeastern Gheg variants.
According to the 1991 Yugoslav census, boycotted by Albanians, there were 1,596,072 ethnic Albanians in Kosovo or 81.6% of population. By the estimation in the year 2000, there were between 1,584,000 and 1,733,600 Albanians in Kosovo or 88% of population; as of 2011,[11] their population share is 92.93%.
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^Simon Broughton; Mark Ellingham; Richard Trillo (1999). World music: the rough guide. Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Rough Guides. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-85828-635-8. Retrieved 13 July 2013. Most of the ethnic Albanians that live outside the country are Ghegs, although there is a small Tosk population clustered around the shores of lakes Presp and Ohrid in the south of Macedonia.
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The Albanians of Kosovo (Albanian: Shqiptarët e Kosovës, pronounced [ʃcipˈtaɾət ɛ kɔˈsɔvəs]), also commonly called KosovoAlbanians, Kosovan Albanians or...
in Kosovo as well as the assimilation of Albanians into Serbian society, causing a mass exodus of Albanians from Kosovo. The figures of Albanians forcefully...
million and 1.45 million KosovoAlbanians. After the war, around 200,000 Serbs, Romani, and other non-Albanians fled Kosovo and many of the remaining...
of Greater Albania. As of the 2021 estimate, approximately 97% of Kosovars are ethnic Albanians. The prospect of Kosovo unifying with Albania dates to the...
of Kosovo, the vast majority of which is inhabited by Albanians, from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and Serbia during the 1990s. Albanian nationalism...
On the Albanian-Serb Relations" (PDF). Kosovo Public Policy Center: 83. 120,000-270,000 Albanians were killed and approximately 250,000 Albanians were expelled...
1980s, the KosovoAlbanians constituted a majority in Kosovo. During the 1970s and 1980s, thousands of Serbs and Montenegrins left Kosovo, including some...
The Albanians (/ælˈbeɪniənz, ɔːl-/ a(w)l-BAY-nee-ənz; Albanian: Shqiptarët, pronounced [ʃcipˈtaɾət]) are an ethnic group native to the Balkan Peninsula...
controlled Albania. KosovoAlbanians sought to redress the past policies of colonisation and Slavization and power relations between Albanians and Serbs...
historical and living notable Kosovar Albanians (ethnic Albanian people from Kosovo or people of full or partial Kosovar Albanian ancestry), sorted by occupation...
numbers. Albanians responded by boycotting state schools and setting up an unofficial parallel system of Albanian-language education. KosovoAlbanians were...
including 18,000 Serbs and 200 Albanians, Zubin Potok 14,900 "with a vast Kosovo Serb majority" with 800 KosovoAlbanians, and Zvečan "The estimated total...
had a revival in Kosovo. Today, 95.6% of Kosovo's population are Muslims, most of whom are ethnic Albanians. There are also non-Albanian speaking Muslims...
are also sizable numbers of non-Albanians. Another term used by Albanians, is "Albanian national reunification" (Albanian: Ribashkimi kombëtar shqiptar)...
resist those impositions. For Albanians those events have made Kosovo an important place regarding the emergence of Albanian nationalism. During the remainder...
Kosovo. After Albanians, Serbs form the largest ethnic community in Kosovo (6–7%). A 2023 CIA estimate put Kosovo's population at 1,964,327. Kosovo has...
between Serbs and Albanians. Serbs call the event the March Pogrom (Serbian: Мартовски погром, romanized: Martovski pogrom), while the Albanians call it the...
Kosovar Albanians in the context of reuniting ancient Dardanians into a larger Illyrian whole or modern Albanians of Kosovo into a Greater Albania. The myth...
especially regarding relations with neighbouring Albania. Harsh repressive measures were imposed on KosovoAlbanians due to suspicions that they there were sympathisers...
security rules were subsequently imposed against Kosovo'sAlbanians following mass protests. The Albanians established a "parallel state" to provide education...
capital of the then Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, led to widespread protests by KosovoAlbanians demanding more autonomy within the Socialist Federal...
replacing Albanians with another population. At the time in the Yugoslav census of 1921, Albanians formed the majority population of Kosovo at around...
Kosovo as inhabited by Albanians. According to sources from 17th century Kosovo, those in Western Kosovo spoke Albanian while those in Eastern Kosovo...
The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (Albanian: Misioni i Administratës së Përkohshme të Kombeve të Bashkuara në Kosovë, Serbian:...
the Kosovo-Albanian diaspora, more than one million Albanians have left Kosovo since the late 1980s permanently, excluding those fleeing the Kosovo War...
policy in Kosovo, massacring tens of thousands of Albanians. Between 1912 and 1915, 132 Albanian villages were razed to the ground. Many Albanians in the...
police officer). Flag of Albania often used by KosovoAlbanians Flag of Serbia often used by Kosovo Serbs Until 2008, Kosovo did not have a flag of its...
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