Republic of Kosova
| Republic of Kosova | ||||||||||
| Republika e Kosovës | ||||||||||
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Anthem Himni i Flamurit Hymn to the Flag |
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 Location of the Republic of Kosova within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1999)
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| Capital | Pristina | |||||||||
| Languages | Albanian | |||||||||
| Government | Republic | |||||||||
| President | Ibrahim Rugova | |||||||||
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| • | 1992–2000 | Bujar Bukoshi | ||||||||
| Historical era | Yugoslav Wars | |||||||||
| • | Established | September 22, 1992 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | February 1, 1999 | ||||||||
| Population | ||||||||||
| • | est. | 2,000,000 | ||||||||
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The Republic of Kosova (Albanian: Republika e Kosovës) was a self proclaimed state in 1992. During its peak, it tried to establish its own parallel political institutions in opposition to the institutions of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija held by the Republic of Serbia.
The Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo was established in 1974 with a high degree of autonomy within the Socialist Republic of Serbia. This autonomy was curtailed by constitutional amendments in 1989, in the anti-bureaucratic revolution, resulting in mass protests by Kosovar Albanians, starting with the 1989 Kosovo miners' strike, many of whom were arrested by the then-Yugoslav authorities. This resulted in a declaration of a state of emergency in February 1990 and the resignation of the Provincial Council of Ministers in May.
The Serbian [federal] government enacted a series of laws for the territory of Kosovo which prohibited Albanians from buying or selling property, they shut down Albanian-language media, and dismissed thousands of ethnic Albanian civil servants.
Late in June, Albanian members of the provincial assembly proposed a response - a vote on whether to form an independent republic; the (Serb) president of the assembly immediately shut it down and promised to reopen the assembly on 2 July, which was later postponed.
On 2 July, the vast majority of Albanian members of the Provincial Assembly returned to the Assembly, but it had been locked; so in the street outside they voted to declare Kosovo a Republic within the Yugoslav Federation. The Serbian government responded by dissolving the Assembly and the government of Kosovo, removing any remaining autonomy. The Serb government then passed another law on "labour relations" which fired another 80,000 Albanian workers.
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