Vilayet Kosovo
The Kosovo Vilayet ( Turkish Kosova Vilayeti , Albanian Vilajeti i Kosovës , Serbian Косовски вилајет Kosovski Vilayet , Macedonian Покраина на Косово Pokraina na Kosovo ) was a Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkan peninsula. The capital was Üsküp , today's Skopje.
history
The Vilayet Kosovo was created from the province of Prizren in Rumelia after an administrative reform in 1877 .
The borders of the province shifted when the Ottoman Empire - as a result of the Russo-Turkish War 1877–1878 and the Berlin Congress - lost territories to neighboring countries. After that, parts of the province of Kosovo - including the city of Monastir - were relocated to the province of Thessaloniki .
In 1878 the Sanjak Novi Pazar , a subdivision of the province of Kosovo, came under Austro-Hungarian military occupation, under which it remained until 1908. After the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913, the province was divided between Montenegro , Serbia , Albania and Bulgaria , and the divided areas were incorporated into the respective states.
organization
- Sandschak Üsküp , Üsküp
- Sandzak Pristine , Pristina
- Sanjak Prizren , Prizren
- Sanjak İpek , İpek
- Sanjak Yeni Pazar , Yeni Pazar
- Sandschak Taşlıca , Taşlıca
Cities
Besides the capital Üsküp there were a number of other important cities in Vilâyet Kosovo (Turkish or Ottoman name):
- Pristina
- Gilan
- Kumanova
- Koçani
- İştip
- Köprülü
- Kalkandelen
- Prizren
- Yakova
- Mitroviça
- İpek
- Berane
- Yeni Pazar
- Seniçe
- Prepol
- Taşlıca
literature
- Yıldırım Ağanoğlu: Salnâme-i Vilâyet-i Kosova: Yedinci defa olarak vilâyet matbaasında tab olunmuştur: 1896 (hicri 1314) Kosova vilâyet-i salnâmesi (Üsküp, Priştine, Prizren . Rumeli Türkleri Kültür ve Dayanışma Derneği, İstanbul 2000.