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Say, doesn't the technique used to create the map really makes it feel like there was over 95% albanians in most provinces, apart these three serbian provinces? Really, when you sum up the little dots, it turns out they are a majority, but not as much a majority as it seems.
No! That is not the case. Actually, it would be misleading to sum up the little dots to come up with a total for the minorities. The little dots represent percentages in terms of the local population. But there are lower and upper limits assigned to each dot. So, who is to calculate the exact minority figures based on the data provided on the map. However, in a different context, overall statistical figures have shown that over 90% of Kosovar population are indeed of Albanian decent. And this latter representation is the more accurate one, since there are one too many sources that confirm it.
There will be pan-Slav people out there that will argue until blue in the face, saying that such numbers are manufactured after the end of the Second World War. They will say that many Serbs were deliberately kicked out to lower their percentages in terms of total population. They will also say that Albanian birth rate went up drastically making it seem that the Kosovar state is indeed Albanian. But, please, let us lay all this nonsense to rest. Albanian population has always been the dominant one in terms of population percentages. If anything, the Serbs have tried to commit attrocities of mass scale against the innocent Albanian population throughout times, hoping that such a genocide would reduce Albanian percentages in terms of total population.
Statistics aside, Kosovo may be a sentimental medival subject to most of Serbs, who only came to the Balkans peninsula circa 700 AD, but the free state of Kosovo, also known as Dardania during ancient Illyrian times, has a much more sentimental value to Albanians, who are true descendants of the rightful owners of that part of the peninsula. Albanians are descendants of the Illyrians. Let there be no speculation about it.
[edit] Cërnagorët
"Cërnagorët" the montenegriners are non present in this map. The are numbret here to serbs??? The term serbs must be chanched with ortodox or the cërnagors most be seperetet from serbs.
[edit] Error
The percentage of muslim slavs in dragas is too small on the map. Fraud? LAz17 (talk) 20:47, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
