„Project Rastko — Kosovo and Metohija“: English index

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Essential reading about Kosovo and Metohija province

• HISTORY & ARCHEOLOGY of Kosovo and Metohija
• MUSIC of Kosovo and Metohija
• EPICS of Kosovo and Metohija
• ARTS AND ENDANGERED HERITAGE of Kosovo and Metohija
• ALSO OF INTEREST: articles about Serb-speaking Gorani minority in Kosovo and Metohija

HISTORY & ARCHEOLOGY of Kosovo and Metohija

• Kosovo And Metohia In The Middle Ages - Archaeological Research, dr Đorđe Janković (1999)

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• The Kosovo Chronicles, Dušan T. Bataković 
  • The Kosovo and Metohia question
  • Kosovo and Metohia: A historical survey
  • From the Serbian Revolution to the Eastern Crisis: 1804-1875
  • Entering the sphere of European Interest
  • Anarchy and genocide upon the Serbs
  • Liberation of Kosovo and Metohia
  • Serbian Government and Essad Pasha Toptani
  • Kosovo and Metohia: Clash of nations or clash of civilizations

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• Old Serbia and Albanians (1999)
  • Kosovo and Metohia in the Serbian history, Slavenko Terzić
  • Kosovo, Serbian issue and the greater Albania project, Slavenko Terzić
  • Albanian ethnic cleansing of the old Serbia, Slavenko Terzić
  • The iron age princely tomb Pecka Banja in Metohija, Aleksandar Palavestra
  • The Kosovo question - Past and present, Dimitrije Bogdanović
  • The Kosovo myth in the First World War, Ljubinka Trgovčević

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• Response to Noel Malcolm's book "Kosovo. A short history", Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (1998)
  • About this Scientific Discussion, Slavenko Terzić
  • Historiography by the Garb Only, Milorad Ekmečić
  • Middle Ages in Noel Malcolm's "Kosovo. A Short History" and Real Facts, Đorđe Janković
  • Malcolm's Apology of the "Pax Ottomana", Ema Miljković-Bojanić
  • Old Serbia in the Eyes of the "Merciful Angel": the Phenomenon of the Historian as a Destructionist, Slavenko Terzić
  • Pro et Contra: Some Western Echoes of Noel Malcolm's Book "Kosovo. A Short History", Mile Bjelac
  • Malcolm's View of Kosovo in the Twentieth Century, Djordje Borozan
  • Facts and Interpretations of Education and Everyday Terror, Ljubomir Dimić
  • Shorter History, Milorad Ekmečić

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• The Kosovo Field - June 15, 1389 - Sima Ćirković
• Saint Lazar the Great Martyr of Kosovo
• The Firman of Bayezid - Sultan Bayezid
• God-pleasing work of Jihadd - Idris Bitlisi
• The Role of St. Vitus' Day in Modern Serbian - Dimitrije Đorđević
• The events surrounding the Battle of Kosovo 1389 and its cultural effect on the Serbian people - Mark Gottfried
• Kosovo in the History of the Serbian Church - Veselin Kesich
• The Kosovo Legacy - Thomas Emmert

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• Dečani Monastery - Alexander Fedorovich Gilferding
• From Novi Pazar to Pec - Alexander Fyodorovich Gilferding
• Through the Land of the Serb - Mary E. Durham
• Around Kosovo - Mary Edith Durham

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• The Kosovo Crisis: Origins and History, Karl Kosta Savić (2000)
• War, Journalism, and Propaganda: An Analysis of Media Coverage of the Bosnian and Kosovo Conflicts, Karl Kosta Savić
• Tetovo and Greater Albania: Tetovo During World War II, 1941-1944, Karl Kosta Savić
• Albanian Skenderbeg SS Division, Karl Kosta Savić
• Eyewitness to Genocide in Kosovo: Kosovo-Metohija and the Skenderbeg Division, Karl Kosta Savić

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• The Serbian Church During years of Kosovo Hardships - Dimitrije Bogdanović
• The Cry of Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija, bishop Atanasije Jevtić (1999)
• The Migration of Serbs and Montenegrins from Kosovo and Metohija, Ruža Petrović (1992)

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• Cantonization of Kosovo-Metohija, Dušan T. Bataković
• The Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija, Dušan T. Bataković
• Kosovo-Metohija: The Serbo-Albanian Conflict, Dušan T. Bataković
• Serbia Today and Tomorrow, Dušan T. Bataković
• Serbia in the 21st Century: The Problem of Kosovo-Metohija, Dušan T. Bataković 

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• G8 Plan for armistice between NATO and Yugoslavia accepted by Serbian Parliament (June 3rd, 1999) - Group 8

 MUSIC of Kosovo and Metohija

• Belo platno (“White Linen” band) — Official site. Most of the songs performed by the group „Belo platno“ come from the region of the present-day Kosovo and Metohia, Southern and Southeastern part of Serbia and Macedonia (Pirin, Aegean and FYR of Macedonia).
• Belo platno (“White Linen” band) on MYSPACE

EPICS of Kosovo and Metohija

• The Battle of Kosovo, Serbian Epic Poems. Translated from the Serbian by John Matthias and Vladeta Vuckovic. (1987)
• Serbian Medieval Epic Poetry (Battle of Kosovo), Translated from the Serbian by Helen Rootham (1920)

ARTS AND ENDANGERED HERITAGE of Kosovo and Metohija

• The great church art of Kosovo, Waldemar Januszczak (1999)
• The Fate of Serbian Cultural Heritage between 13-20th centuries - Milan Ivanović

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• Crucified Kosovo - Destroyed and desecrated Serbian Orthodox churches in Kosovo and Metohia (June-October 1999) /2nd edition/
  • Crucified Heritage, prof. dr Ljubiša Folić
  • Foreword, jeromonah Sava Janjić
• Crucified Kosovo  — Destroyed and desecrated Serbian Orthodox churches in Kosovo and Metohia (1999-2003) • Raspяtoe Kosovo — Уничтожение и осквернение сербских православных церквей в Косово и Метохии (1999-2003) /3rd edition/

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• The Patriarchate of Peć
• Dečani Monastery: A recommendation for World Heritage List (Serbia-Montenegro) - ICOMOS

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• Project "Protection of natural and cultural heritage in Metohija" (July 2001 - June 2002), Mnemosyne, Center for protection of natural and cultural heritage of Kosovo and Metohija
  The project was realized by cooperation of Serbian and Italian experts.
  • Introduction / Uvod
  • Protected Natural Property /Zaštićena prirodna dobra
    • National Park Prokletije / Nacionalni park Prokletije
    • National Park Sar-planina / Nacionalni park Šar-planina
    • Protected Surroundings of Decani Monastery / Zaštićena okolina manastira Dečana
    • Protected Surroundings of Patriarchate of Pec Monastery / Zaštićena okolina manastira Pećka Patrijaršija
    • Velika Hoca / Velika Hoča
    • Other Protected Natural Property / Ostala zaštićena prirodna dobra
  • Municipality of Decani / Opština Dečani
  • Municipality of Djakovica / Opština Đakovica
  • Municipality of Istok / Opština Istok
  • Municipality of Klina / Opština Klina
  • Municipality of Orahovac / Opština Orahovac
  • Municipality of Pec / Opština Peć
  • Municipality of Prizren / Opština Prizren
  • Municipality of Srbica / Opština Srbica
  • Municipality of Strpce / Opština Štrpce
  • Municipality of Urosevac / Opština Uroševac
  • Municipality of Decani / Opština Dečani
  • Municipality of Djakovica / Opština Đakovica
  • Municipality of Istok / Opština Istok
  • Municipality of Klina / Opština Klina
  • Municipality of Malisevo / Opština Mališevo
  • Municipality of Orahovac / Opština Orahovac
  • Municipality of Pec / Opština Peć
  • Municipality of Prizren / Opština Prizren
  • Municipality of Suva Reka / Opština Suva Reka
  • Municipality of Urosevac / Opština Uroševac [
  • Dating and category of the cultural property, and the state of documentation / Vreme nastanka, kategorija i stanje dokumentacije
  • Causes of degradation, devastation and destruction / Uzroci degradacije, devastacije i uništenja
  • Recommended measures of urgent protection / Predlog mera urgentne zaštite
  • Recommended measures of long-term protection
  • The list of priorities / Lista prioriteta
  • Index / Registar
  • Maps / Karte

ALSO OF INTEREST: articles about Serb-speaking Gorani minority in Kosovo and Metohija

From PROJECT RASTKO - GORA, E-library of culture and tradition of Gora and Goranies:

•  Goranies, Muslims and Turks in the Šar (Shar) mountain župas (parishes) of Serbia: Problems of the actual living and survivаl conditions (Proceedings of the Round Table conference held on April 19, 2000, at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
  • Opening address — Academician Stevan Karamata
  • Welcoming address — Ivan Sedlak
  • Šar Mountain and its župas in South Serbia's Kosovo-Metohia region — Prof. Dr. Milovan Radovanović
  • Ethnic identity of Goranies — Academician Dragoslav Antonijević
  • A glance at the Islamisation of Gora and other župas of the Šar Mountain complex — Academician Vladimir Stojančević
  • Migrations of the population of the Šar Mountain župa Gora — Dr. Harun Hasani
  • Goranies in the light of Rambouillet talks — Ibro Vait, M. A
  • The speech of Goranies — Dr. Radivoje Mladenović
  • Autonomous municipality of Gora as a guarantee of the ethnic autonomy, entity and identity of Goranies — Behadin Ahmetović,
  • Surviving and destroyed cultural and historical monuments in the župas of Gora and Sredska and part of Prizrenski Podgor in Šar Mountain — Milan Ivanović,
  • Actual problems of education system in the municipality of Gora upon arrival of KFOR — Mesip Dalifi
  • On the folk literature of Goranies — Prof. Dr. Vladimir Bovan
  • The story about Goranies — Orhan Dragaš
  • Position of the Turkish national community in Kosovo-Metohia since Rambouillet and Paris talks, and KFOR and UNMIK arrival in that South Serbia's region — Zeynelabidin Kurejsh
  • Ptolemy’s Orini and our countrymen Goranies — Prof. Dr. Miodrag Stojanović
  • Gora in the picture – Gora in the heart — Prof. D. Darko Tanasković
  • The origin of Petar K. Kostić, writer and senator from Prizren — Dr. Vekoslav Stanković
  • Economy, population and settlements on Šar Mountain as described in studies of Russian consul in Prizren I.S. Yastrebov — Prof. Dr. Borislava Lilić
  • Basic requirements for planned arrangement of the Šar Mountain župas of Serbia — Dr. Milan Bursać, Dr. Mirčeta Vemić