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The territory of the province, as recognized by Serbian laws, lies in the southern part of Serbia and covers the regions of Kosovo and Metohija. The capital of the province is Pristina. The territory was previously an autonomous province of Serbia during Socialist Yugoslavia (1946–1990), and acquired its current status in 1990.
Although Serbia does not officially recognise Kosovo as a sovereign state and continues to claim it as its constituent Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, it accepts the governing authority of the Kosovo institutions as a part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is a developing country, with an upper-middle-income economy.
US Central Intelligence Agency map of Serbia as of June 2006, including the autonomous provinces of Vojvodina (north) and Kosovo (south). Kosovo's constitutional status of the period June 1999-February 2008 was established by the United Nations in UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1244, adopted on 10 June 1999.
Vojvodina is also the Serbian word for voivodeship, a type of duchy overseen by a voivode. The Serbian Voivodeship, a precursor to modern Vojvodina, was an Austrian province from 1849 to 1860. Its official name is the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. Its name in the province's six official languages is:
Average depth. 105 m (344 ft) Surface elevation. 694 m (2,277 ft) Gazivoda Lake ( Serbian: Језеро Газиводе) or Ujman Lake ( Albanian: Liqeni i Ujmanit ), is an artificial lake in Kosovo and Serbia. [1] Gazivoda Lake has an area of 12 km 2 (4.6 sq mi) of which 9.2 km 2 (3.6 sq mi) reside in North of Kosovo and 2.7 km 2 (1.0 sq mi ...
The Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, [note 1] referred to as simply Kosovo, was one of the two autonomous provinces of the Socialist Republic of Serbia within Yugoslavia (the other being Vojvodina ), between 1945 and 1990, when it was renamed Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija . Between 1945 and 1963 it was officially named the ...
The Office for Kosovo and Metohija ( Serbian: Канцеларија за Косово и Метохију, romanized : Kancelarija za Kosovo i Metohiju; Albanian: Zyra për Kosovën dhe Metohinë) is a coordination body of the Government of Serbia. [4] It was constituted on 2 August 2012 after the dissolution of Ministry for Kosovo and ...
Kosovo is located between the Mediterranean Sea and mountainous regions of Southeast Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. This geographic location gives the country its large annual temperature range. Summer temperature highs can reach +30 °C (86 °F), winter's temperatures as low as −10 °C (14 °F). [22]