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Kosovo

country in southeastern Europe

11 dated entries naming Kosovo, drawn from 10 separate years between 1321 CE and 2021 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Republic of Kosovo in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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14th century

  • 1321The Gračanica Monastery is founded by King Stefan Milutin, nicknamed "The Saint King", on the ruins of a 6th-century basilica, located in Kosovo.source

15th century

  • 1455June 21 – In what is now the nation of Kosovo, the city of Prizren is captured from the Serbian Despotate by the Ottoman Turkish invaders.source

17th century

  • 1690Serbian Patriarch Arsenije III Crnojević leads the first of the two Great Serbian Migrations into the Habsburg Empire, following Ottoman atrocities in Kosovo.source

20th century

  • 1945Communist provisional government agrees to restore Kosovo to Yugoslavia as an autonomous regionsource
  • 1989March 1 – A curfew is imposed in Kosovo, where protests continue over the alleged intimidation of the Serb minority.source
  • 1999April 7 – Kosovo War: Kosovo's main border crossings are closed by Yugoslav forces to prevent Kosovo Albanians from leaving.source
  • 1999May 27 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.source

21st century

  • 2008February 17 – Kosovo formally declares independence from Serbia, to a mixed response from the international community.source
  • 201229 November: A UN war crimes tribunal acquits former Kosovan Prime Minister and former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army Ramush Haradinaj of war crimes, prompting Serbia to denounce the court.source
  • 201821 November – Kosovo puts a 100% trade tariff on all goods imported from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. The European Union says this is a "clear violation" of the Central European Free Trade Agreement.source
  • 2021February 1 – Kosovo officially establishes diplomatic ties with Israel and announces plans to open an embassy in Jerusalem.source

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