Blackbird field
The blackbird field ( Albanian Fusha e Kosovës , Serbian Косово поље Kosovo polje ) is the eponymous landscape of Kosovo .
geography
The Amselfeld is a north-west-south-east lying, 84 km long tectonic basin from 500 to 600 m above sea level, which is framed by the mountains of the south-east Dinarides .
With an area of 7547 km² and a population of 1.16 million inhabitants (as of 2002), the area takes up almost 70 percent of the area and 60 percent of the total population of Kosovo.
Geologically, young Quaternary sediments dominate . Young tertiary lignite deposits are important, but in the form of lignite they are only of minor economic value due to their poor calorific value. Numerous ore-bearing layers are based on tertiary volcanic activity, which were historically mined in the silver and gold mines of Novo Brdo and have recently been mined in Trepča in lead-zinc veins . Inactive volcanoes can be found in the north of the blackbird field near Zvečan .
The Blackbird Field forms a hydrographic node where a main European watershed collapses. The low mountain range Crnoljeva separates the blackbird field in the west from Metohija . The catchment areas of the Adriatic, Aegean and Black Sea meet at Gornje Nerodimlje on Crnoljeva at an altitude of 1364 m above sea level. The bifurcation of the Nerodimka , which drains over the Sitnica , an orographically right tributary of the Ibar , into the Black Sea and over the Lepenac , an orographically left tributary of the Vardar , into the Aegean Sea , occurs as a hydrographic specialty in the Blackbird Field . The breakthrough valleys of the Ibar near Mitrovica and the Lepenac near Kaçanik are the northern and southern border points of the blackbird field .
The largest city in the blackbird field is Pristina , the capital of Kosovo. The majority of the country's population lives in the Amselfeld.
In terms of traffic, the Amselfeld connects the Pelagonian basin with the breakthrough valleys of Serbia. As the main traffic axis between the Aegean Sea and the interior of the Western Balkans and Serbia, this has an important regional traffic position.
history
The connection between the Ibar and Vardar valleys forms an old transport and trade route. There were several military disputes over control of the region, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries. Century between the expanding Ottoman Empire and Christian rulers of the region.
The following battles are referred to as the battle on the blackbird field:
- Battle of the Blackbird Field (1389) , a battle between Serb / Bosnian and Ottoman troops
- Battle of the Amselfeld (1402) , a battle between two Serbian armies
- Battle of the Blackbird Field (1448) , a battle between a crusader army and an Ottoman army
- Battle of the Amselfeld (1915) , a battle during the First World War
Slobodan Milošević gave the Amselfeld speech on June 28, 1989 .
economy
The plain of the blackbird field is the economic center of Kosovo.
Mining
In the vicinity of Obiliq and Fushë Kosova (Kosovo Polje), lignite is mined on a large scale . This is mainly used to produce electrical energy in the Kosovo A / B power plant in Obiliq.
Agriculture
The focus of agriculture in the Amselfeld is the cultivation of grain, milk and meat production. The Amselfelder wine, known in Western Europe , is mainly grown in the hill country around Orahovac to the west of the actual Amselfeld.
etymology
The name of Kosovo suggests a connection to the blackbird . Kosovo goes back to the Serbian place name Kosovo polje . The possessive suffix -ovo is added to the word kos ('blackbird') , polje means 'field'. This place name is usually traced back to a legend according to which the Serbian heroes who fell on the blackbird field turned into blackbirds. However, this legend contradicts the fact that at the time in question there could hardly have been blackbirds in the relevant place, as these were still forest birds and were also rarely found in southeastern Europe. According to another interpretation, the name comes from kosit or kositi , the verb for 'mow' , which is almost identical in Serbian and Albanian . Accordingly, the hero myth was invented later and the place name was reinterpreted accordingly.
Individual evidence
- ↑ OSCE Municipal Profile Obilić ( memento of July 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 299 kB), September 2009
- ↑ OSCE Municipal Profile Kosovo Polje ( Memento from 7 July 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 301 kB), September 2009
- ↑ USAID The State of the Wine Industry in Kosovo (PDF; 1.3 MB), 2006
- ↑ Csaba Földes: Place names in the field of tension between public language and linguistic change. Germanistic-linguistic remarks based on the Kosovo crisis. In: mother tongue. 109: pp. 303-315, Wiesbaden 1999 ( online )
Coordinates: 42 ° 35 ' N , 21 ° 7' E