Kosovo (disambiguation)

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Kosovo is a widely used place name in Slavic countries, stemming from the word kos, which means blackbird.

Contents 1 Kosovo 2 Kosowo 3 Kosova 4 Kos- 5 References

[edit] Kosovo

• Kosovo is the name for the United Nations-administered, autonomous province of Serbia, which Serbs call Kosovo and Metohija and Albanians call Kosova.

• • Kosovo Plain is a region in aforementioned province, after which it is partly named.
  • Kossovo Vilayet a former prefecture of the Ottoman Empire.
  • Kosovo Field (Serbian: Kosovo Polje; Albanian: Fushë Kosovë) is a battlefield in the aforementioned region, site of the Battle of Kosovo.
  • Kosovo District, a former district of Serbia
  • Kosovo-Pomoravlje District, a former district of Serbia
  • Kosovo Polje (Albanian: Fushë Kosovë), a city in the province, built near aforementioned battlefield (field of blackbirds).
  • Battle of Kosovo of 1389
  • Battle of Kosovo (1448)
  • Kosovo War
  • Kosovo (song), a parody of the hit Beach Boys song "Kokomo," which criticises the Legitimacy of NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
• place in Belarus
  • Kosovo, Belarus
• places in Russia
  • Kosovo, Vologda Oblast
  • Kosovo, Novgorod Oblast
  • Kosovo, Tver Oblast
  • Kosovo, Kaluga Oblast
• places in Bulgaria
  • Kosovo, Vidin Province
  • Kosovo, Kyustendil Province
  • Kosovo, Plovdiv Province
  • Kosovo, Shumen Province
  • Gorsko Kosovo, a place in Veliko Tarnovo Province, Bulgaria
  • Polsko Kosovo, a place in Ruse Province, Bulgaria
• places in Republic of Macedonia
  • Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia
• Dalmatinsko Kosovo, a place in the Croatian region of Dalmatia, named after the region of Kosovo

[edit] Kosowo

Kosowo is Polish spelling of the word.

• Kosowo, Nakło County
• Kosowo, Świecie County
• Kosowo, Tuchola County
• Kosowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship
• Kosowo, Gniezno County
• Kosowo, Gostyń County

[edit] Kosova

• Kosova is the Albanian name for Kosovo.
• Kosova is a town in the county of Elbasan in Albania. It borders with the county of Lushnje and has shifted several times between Lushnje and Elbasan. This has led to irony from people in Lushnje who use for Kosova the same "patriotic" jargon that Albania uses to claim Kosova, the Serbian province.
• Kosova, Estonia
• Kosova, Slovakia
• Kosova, Turkey
• Kosova, Belarus

Unrelated to the root kos there are also:

• Bantu Kosova, people in Kenya who are also known as the Gusii.

[edit] Kos-

The root kos also appears in many other geonyms and names, including:

• Kosiv, a city in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine
• Kosov
  • Kosov, a place in Slovakia
• Kosovets
• Kosovka
  • Kosovka, a place in Minsk Voblast, Belarus.
  • Kosivka, a village in Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine.
  • Kosivka, a village in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine.
  • Kosovka, a river in Russia.
  • Kosovka Devojka
• Kosovoy
• Kosovska Mitrovica
• Kosovska Mitrovica District, a district of Kosovo
• Kosovska River
• Kosovskaya Field
• Kosovskiy Rayon
• Kosovskoye Lake

[edit] References

• John Peter Maher The American hand (and others) in Kosovo propaganda