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Encyclopedia Britannica



KOSSOVO

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 916 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KOSSOVO , or Kosovo, a vilayet of European Turkey, comprising the sanjak of Uskub in Macedonia, and the sanjaks of Prizren and Novibazar (q.v.) in northern Albania. Pop. (1905), about 1,100,000; area, 12,700 sq. m. For an account of the physical features of Kossovo, see ALBANIA and MACEDONIA. The inhabitants are chiefly Albanians and Slays, with smaller communities of Greeks, Turks,
Vlachs
  and
gipsies
 . A few good roads traverse the vilayet (see USKUB), and the railway from Salonica northward bifurcates at Uskub, the
capital
 , one branch going to Mitrovitza in Albania, the other to Nish in Servia. Despite the undoubted
mineral
  wealth of the vilayet, the only mines working in 1907 were two chrome mines, at Orasha and Verbeshtitza. In the volume of its agricultural trade, however, Kossovo is unsurpassed by any Turkish province. The exports, worth about 950,000, include livestock, large quantities of
grain
  and fruit, tobacco, vegetables, opium, hemp and skins.
Rice
  is cultivated for local
consumption
 , and sericulture is a growing industry, encouraged by the Administration of the Ottoman Debt. The yearly value of the imports is approximately 1,zoo,000; these include machinery and other manufactured goods, metals, groceries, chemical products and petroleum, which is used in the flour-mills and factories on account of the prohibitive price of coal. There is practically no trade with Adriatic ports; two-thirds of both exports and imports pass through Salonica, the
remainder
  going by rail into Servia. The
chief
  towns, Uskub (32,000), Prizren (30,000), Koprulii (22,000), Ishtib [Slay. Slip] (21,000), Novibazar (12,000) and Prishtina (11,000) are described in
separate
  articles.
In the middle ages the vilayet formed part of the Servian Empire, its northern districts are still known to the Serbs as Old
Servia (Stara Srbiya). The plain of Kossovo (Kossovopolje, " Field of Blackbirds "), a long valley lying west of Prishtina and watered by the Sibnitza, a tributary of the Servian Ibar, is famous in Balkan history and legend as the scene of the battle of Kossovo (1389), in which the power of Servia was destroyed by the Turks. (See SERVIA: History.)


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