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Kosovo (Albanian Kosova, Kosovë; Serbian ?????? or ?????? ? ????????, Kosovo or Kosovo i Metohija) is a disputed region in the Balkans. Its majority is governed by the partially-recognized Republic of Kosovo (Albanian Republika e Kosovës), which claims all the territory of Yugoslavia’s 1974-1990 Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo of SR Serbia. The modern Republic of Serbia does not recognize the secession of the province and considers Kosovo a United Nations-governed entity within its sovereign territory, the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (Serbian ????????? ????????? ?????? ? ????????, Autonomna Pokrajina Kosovo i Metohija) created by the 1988 Serbian constitutional reforms of Slobodan Miloševic government.[6][7]. Landlocked Kosovo is bordered by Central Serbia to the north and east, the Republic of Macedonia to the south, Albania to the west, and Montenegro to the northwest. The largest city and the capital of Kosovo is Pristina (alternatively spelled Prishtina or Priština), while other cities include Peja (Pec), Prizren, and Mitrovica (Kosovska Mitrovica). Kosovo was a part of the lands of Thraco-Illyrian tribes, then of the Roman, Byzantine, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Ottoman empires. In the 20th century it was part of the kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro and their successor state, Yugoslavia. After Kosovo War and 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia the territory came under the interim administration of the United Nations (UNMIK). In February 2008, the Assembly of Kosovo declared Kosovo's independence as the Republic of Kosovo. As of 5 December 2008, its independence is recognised by 53 UN member states and the Republic of China (Taiwan). One theory about the name Kosovo, states that Kosovo (??????, ['k?s?v?]) is the Serbian neuter possessive adjective of kos (???) "blackbird",[8][9] an ellipsis for Kosovo Polje "field of the blackbirds", the site of the 1389 Battle of Kosovo Field. The name of the field was applied to an Ottoman province created in 1864.
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