A history of the Albanian region of the former Yugoslavia covers the rise of the medieval Serbian state and the creation of modern Albania, and explores how twelve hundred years of culture have culminated in today's bitter conflict.

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A note on names and pronunciationsxi -- Maps xv -- 1 Orientation: places, names and peoples 1 -- 2 Origins: Serbs, Albanians and Vlachs 22 -- 3 Medieval Kosovo before Prince Lazar: 850s-1380s 41 -- 4 Battle and the Myth 58 -- 5 Last years of Medieval Serbian Kosovo: 1389-1455 81 -- 6 Early Ottoman Kosovo: 1450s-1580s 93 -- 7 War, rebellion and religious life: 1580s-1680s 116 -- 8 Austrian invasion and the 'Great Migration' of the Serbs: 1689-1690 139 -- 9 Recovery and decline: 1690-1817 163 -- 10 Reform and resistance: 1817-1878 181 -- 11 Kosovo's other minorities: Vlachs, Gypsies, Turks, Jews and Circassians 202 -- 12 From the League of Prizren to the Young Turk revolution: 1878-1908 217 -- 13 Great rebellions, the Serbian conquest and the First World War: 1908-1918 239 -- 14 Kacaks and colonists: 1918-1941 264 -- 15 Occupied Kosovo in the Second World War: 1941-1945 289 -- 16 Kosovo under Tito: 1945-1980 314 -- 17 Kosovo after the death of Tito: 1981-1997 334 -- List of Manuscripts 431.