The Solution to the Kosovo Problem: Partition Within a Partition

[Makedonia25]

Originally Posted by TirAlb

Albanians were around 88-90% of the population just think about this and not about the map.Now some serbs leaved the country,but none forced them they just followed their army.I can understand them,just some weeks before they(serbs and romas)were helping their army in killing and ethnic cleansing and then in pillaging albanian houses,so thy were afraid of the possible revenge,thet indeed in some places happened.

Have a look at this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogra...tory_of_Kosovo

A study done in 1871 by Austrian colonel Peter Kukulj[5] for the internal use of the Austro-Hungarian army showed that the mutesarifluk of Prizren (corresponding largely to present-day Kosovo) had some 500,000 inhabitants, of which:

318,000 Serbs (64%),
161,000 Albanians (32%),
10,000 Romas (Gypsies) and Circassians
2,000 Turks

An Austrian statistics[9] published in 1899 estimated:

182,650 Albanians (47.88%)
166,700 Serbs (43.7%)
Remaining 8.42% Tsintsars, Turks, Circassians, Romas and Jews

So by 1971, the Albanians had overtaken the Serbs as the majority, due to overbreeding..

1971: 1,243,693 total inhabitants

916,168 Albanians or 73.7%
228,264 Serbs (18.4%)
31,555 Montenegrins (2.5%)
26,000 Slavic Muslims (2.1%)
14,593 Romas (1.2%)
12,244 Turks (1.0%)
8,000 Croats (0.7%)
920 Yugoslavs (0.1%)

And you have to understand that when the 800,000 misplaced Albanians came back to Kosovo in 1999 after NATO interfered, they did the same atrocities that the Serb army had committed on them - forcing 200,000 Serbs to leave Kosovo (and these Serbs never returned).. Otherwise the Serb population in Kosovo would be closer to 20% than the 10% that it is now..

[Tsontos]

To be fair, Austria had a vested interest in advancing Serbian interests in Kosovo and Vardar as a way of compensating her for annexing Bosnia Herzegovina. All the ethnographic maps and almost all sources from the 19th century I've seen have Albanians as the majority.

It's only logical afterall Kosovo was treated like Bosnia and Sanjak by the Turks in that they deliberately made it a Muslim, and therefore Ottoman, stronghold. Thats why Albanians were the majority by the 19th century.