10 Facts About Kosovo Albanians

Kosovo Albanians belong to the ethnic Albanian sub-group of Ghegs, who inhabit the north of Albania, north of the Shkumbin river, Kosovo, southern Serbia, and western parts of North Macedonia.

Kosovo Albanians was part of the Ottoman Empire from 1455 to 1912, at first as part of the eyalet of Rumelia, and from 1864 as a separate province .

In 1912 during the Balkan Wars, most of eastern Kosovo Albanians was taken by the Kingdom of Serbia, while the Kingdom of Montenegro took western Kosovo Albanians, which a majority of its inhabitants call "the plateau of Dukagjin" and the Serbs call Metohija, a Greek word meant for the landed dependencies of a monastery.

Kosovo Albanians was split into four counties—three being a part of official Serbia: Zvecan, Kosovo Albanians and southern Metohija; and one in Montenegro: northern Metohija.

The territories of Kosovo Albanians were split among the Banate of Zeta, the Banate of Morava and the Banate of Vardar.

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Since the Albanian Fascist political leadership had decided in the Conference of Bujan that Kosovo Albanians would remain a part of Albania they started expelling the Serbian and Montenegrin settlers "who had arrived in the 1920s and 1930s".

International negotiations began in 2006 to determine the final status of Kosovo Albanians, as envisaged under UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which ended the Kosovo Albanians conflict of 1999.

Volunteers and humanitarian aid in trucks, buses and hundreds of cars from Kosovo Albanians traveled to Albania to assist in the situation and people were involved in tasks such as the operation of mobile kitchens and gathering financial aid.

Many Albanians in Kosovo have opened their homes to people displaced by the earthquake.

The National Theatre of Kosovo Albanians is the main theatre where plays are shown regularly by Albanian and international artists.