what were the main causes of conflict in Kosovo ? Give 5 main causes
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The most famous historical event of the millennium in Kosovo was probably the 1389 Battle of the Blackbirds, near Kosovo's present-day capital of Pristina. There, Serb forces attempted to fend off the invading Turks, with ethnic Albanians probably fighting on both sides of the battle. A subsequent battle in Kosovo in 1448 between the Ottoman Turks and the Hungarians, together with the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, sealed the fate of the region. The Ottoman Empire would soon dominate, and in fact controlled Kosovo into the 20th century. Looking back on these momentous events, 19th and 20th century Serbian nationalists mythologized the 1389 battle and the role of Kosovo in their nation's history more generally. In the process, they portrayed the primarily Muslim Albanians essentially as sympathizers with the Turkish invaders. The complex interaction of Serbs, Albanians, and Turks over the ensuing centuries would provide grist for all parties' competing historical perceptions, myths, fears, and vendettas.
Kosovo's population became increasingly ethnic Albanian during the period of Ottoman rule. A decisive turning point, politically and demographically, was the large Serbian exodus out of the region (and ultimately into Hungary) in the late 17th century. It was caused by Ottoman armies pressing north, ultimately to their defeat at Vienna against the Habsburg Dynasty during the Ottoman-Habsburg War of 1683-1699. That war spelled the beginning of the end for Ottoman rule in the Balkans, though as noted it would survive in Kosovo for another two centuries.
In the early 20th century, the Ottoman Empire was forced to withdraw from the Balkans, shortly before its complete collapse. Serbia, itself having regained de facto independence in the early 1800s and formal state status in the 1878 Treaty of Berlin, then reasserted control over Kosovo in 1912. That was the same year in which an independent Albanian state was created for the first time--with many of the key moves on the road to independence occurring in Kosovo, conferring on the territory historical importance for the Albanian people comparable to what it holds for the Serbs. Serbia lost control of Kosovo again during World War I. After the war both Serbia and Kosovo were included as part of the new country of Yugoslavia.
Over the last century, Serbs drove large numbers of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo at various times in what proved antecedents to Slobodan Milosevic's 1999 campaign to effectively cleanse the province of them. Nonetheless, ethnic Albanians remained the majority population throughout the century, and in recent decades became dominant numerically. Serbs and Montenegrins constituted slightly less than 30 percent of the population in the early years of Tito's rule, which lasted from 1945 until his death in 1980, gradually declining to less than half that percentage in recent times due to Serb departures and high Albanian birth rates. Whatever the recent population proportions, Kosovo is a land to which both Serbs and Albanians have important and longstanding claims.
Kosovo was the region of Yugoslavia. It was a province of ethnic Albanian which turned to be an essence of conflicts due to various reasons like:
The socialist of Kosovo were in majority and desired to control the nation. They thought that ethnic minority like Albanian should accept to move from the nation or admit the rule of the Serbs.
Thus, the disagreement was on the subject of dominance among Serbs and Albanian commenced.
The brutal Massacre took place under the administration of Serb leader Mosaic in which 1000 Albanians were murdered.
Eventually, various other nations interrupted to prevent this Massacre. However, Milosevic dissipated control and was investigated by the International court of justice for atrocities against humanity.