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| 1 | Mitrovica, Kosovo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 509 Lat/Lng : 42.8833 / 20.8667 | Mitrovica or Kosovska Mitrovica (Serbian Cyrillic: Косовска Митровица) is a city and municipality located in Kosovo. Settled on the banks of Ibar and Sitnica rivers, the city is the administrative center of the Mitrovica District (...) | |
| 2 | North Mitrovica ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 513 Lat/Lng : 42.8937 / 20.8664 | North Mitrovica or North Kosovska Mitrovica (or Mitrovicë Veriore; /, known and only as /), is a town and municipality located in Mitrovica District in Kosovo. As of 2015, it has a population of 29,460 inhabitants. It covers an area of (...) | |
| 3 | District of Mitrovica ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 688 Lat/Lng : 42.9167 / 20.8833 | Mitrovica District is one of the seven districts of Kosovo. Its administrative center and the largest city is Mitrovica. The district borders on the District of Peć the south-west, District of Pristina in the south-east and east, and Serbia in the north. (...) | |
| 4 | Mitrovica ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 688 Lat/Lng : 42.9167 / 20.8833 | Mitrovica, which stems from the name "Saint Demetrius" or "Sveti Dimitrije" (Cyrillic: "Свети Димитрије") may refer to: (...) | |
| 5 | Univerzitet u Prištini ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 121 Lat/Lng : 44.8183 / 20.4574 | The University of Priština with a temporary seat in Kosovska Mitrovica is a public university in Kosovo. It is the higher education institution that emerged after the disestablishment of the University of Pristina (1969–1999) as a result of the Kosovo War (...) | |
| 6 | Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 603 Lat/Lng : 42.6667 / 21.1667 | Kosovo and Metohija (/ Kosovo i Metohija (КиМ / KiM)), officially the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (/ Autonomna Pokrajina Kosovo i Metohija), known as short Kosovo or simply Kosmet (from Kosovo and Metohija; Serbian Cyrillic: Космет), refers to the region of Kosovo as defined in the (...) | |
| 7 | Kosovska Mitrovica District (Serbia) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 596 Lat/Lng : 42.9167 / 20.6833 | The Kosovska Mitrovica District (Serbian: Косовскомитровички округ, Kosovskomitrovički okrug ;) was a district in Kosovo between 1990 and 1999. It was located in the northern part of Kosovo i Metohija. It had a population of 275,904. Seat of the District was in the city of Kosovska Mitrovica (...) | |
| 8 | Kovačica (disambiguation) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 463 Lat/Lng : 44.6622 / 16.6639 | Kovačica (Cyrillic: Ковачица) may refer to: *Kovačica (town), a town in the municipality of Kovačica, Serbia *Kovačica (Kosovska Mitrovica), a village in the municipality of Kosovska Mitrovica *Kovačica (Lopare), a village in the municipality of Lopare, Bosnia and Herzegovina *Kovačica (Tuzla), a (...) | |
| 9 | North Kosovo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 399 Lat/Lng : 43.4833 / 21.45 | North Kosovo (/ Severno Kosovo), also known as the Ibar Kolašin (/ Ibarski Kolašin, or Kollashini i Ibrit; earlier Old Kolašin, / Stari Kolašin, or Kollashini i Vjetër), is a region in the northern part of Kosovo, composed of four municipalities with ethnic Kosovo Serbs majority: North Mitrovica, (...) | |
| 10 | Preševo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 510 Lat/Lng : 42.3092 / 21.6492 | Preševo or Presheva , is a town and municipality located in the Pčinja District of southern Serbia. It is the southernmost town in Serbia (excluding Kosovo) and largest in the geographical region of Preševo Valley. Preševo is the cultural center of Albanians in Serbia (...) | |
| 11 | Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 76 Lat/Lng : 44.8167 / 20.45 | The Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia was the area of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia that was placed under a military government of occupation by the Wehrmacht following the invasion, occupation and dismantling of Yugoslavia in April 1941 (...) | |
| 12 | Serbian Railways ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 74 Lat/Lng : 44.8078 / 20.4544 | Serbian Railways (; abbr. ŽS / ЖС) is a Serbian engineering and technical consulting company based in Belgrade, Serbia. Serbian Railways is an affiliated member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). In August 2015, the Government of Serbia established three new companies which took over (...) | |
| 13 | Prokletije ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 2645 Lat/Lng : 42.4417 / 19.8125 | Prokletije (; ; both translated as "cursed mountains"), also known as the Albanian Alps (Alpet Shqiptare) and the Accursed Mountains, is a mountain range on the western Balkan peninsula, extending from northern Albania to Kosovo and eastern Montenegro (...) | |
| 14 | Bogdan Bogdanović (architect) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 224 Lat/Lng : 43.63 / 20.958 | Bogdan Bogdanović (; 20 August 1922 − 18 June 2010) was a Serbian architect, urbanist and essayist. He taught architecture at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture, where he also served as dean. Bogdanović wrote numerous articles about urbanism, especially about its mythic and symbolic (...) | |
| 15 | 2004 unrest in Kosovo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 506 Lat/Lng : 42.89 / 20.87 | The worst ethnic violence in Kosovo since the end of the 1999 conflict erupted in the partitioned town of Mitrovica, leaving hundreds wounded and at least 14 people dead. UN peacekeepers and Nato troops scrambled to contain a raging gun battle between Serbs and ethnic Albanians (...) | |
| 16 | Monuments of Kosovo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 405 Lat/Lng : 42.2096 / 20.7339 | Monuments of Kosovo comprise all the monuments that are located in Kosovo. Kosovo has an abundance of multicultural and rich heritage dating back to the Bronze Age, later followed by Illyrians, Roman, Byzantine/Serbian Orthodox and Ottoman periods (...) | |
| 17 | Doğubayazıt ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1590 Lat/Lng : 39.548 / 44.0833 | Doğubayazıt is a district of Ağrı Province of Turkey, and it is the easternmost district of Turkey, bordering Iran. Its elevation is 1625m and its area is 2,383 km². Doğubayazıt's population in 2010 was 115,354 (up from 73,794 in 1980) of which 69,447 live in the town of Doğubayazıt, the remainder (...) | |
| 18 | Belgrade-Kosovska Mitrovica Train Incident ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 404 Lat/Lng : 43.2919 / 20.6156 | Belgrade-Kosovska Mitrovica Train Incident happened on 14 January 2017 when Serbian provocative train was prevented from entering Kosovo. (...) | |
| 19 | Trepča Mines ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 761 Lat/Lng : 42.9392 / 20.9181 | The Trepča Mines is a large industrial complex in Kosovo, located northeast of Mitrovica. The mine is located on the southern slopes of the Kopaonik mountain, between the peaks of Crni Vrh and Majdan , and it is Europe's largest lead-zinc and silver ore mine (...) | |
| 20 | Russian Protective Corps ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 275 Lat/Lng : 44.3667 / 19.3667 | The Russian Protective Corps was an armed force composed of anti-communist White Russian émigrés that was raised in the German occupied territory of Serbia during World War II. Commanded for almost its whole existence by Lieutenant General Boris Shteifon, it served primarily as a guard force for (...) | |
| 21 | Novo Selo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 87 Lat/Lng : 45.0831 / 17.9687 | Novo Selo, meaning "new village" in several Slavic languages, may refer to the following places: (...) | |
| 22 | Zvečan Fortress ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 631 Lat/Lng : 42.8998 / 20.8415 | The Fortress of Zvečan (/ Zvešanski grad), also known as Zvečan/Zveçan medieval fortress and Fortress of Mitrovica , located in the north-west of the city of North Kosovska Mitrovica, in North Kosovo, is an enormous castle and one of the oldest fortresses in South Eastern Europe (...) | |
| 23 | Singidunum ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 104 Lat/Lng : 44.8167 / 20.4667 | Singidunum dare.ht.lu.se (/Singidunum, from Celtic) is the name for the ancient city which evolved into Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. Serbian historiography also refers to it as Belgrade's City . It was recorded that a Celtic tribe, the Scordisci, settled the area in the 3rd century BC following (...) | |
| 24 | University of Pristina (1969–99) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 625 Lat/Lng : 42.6486 / 21.1675 | The University of Pristina was founded in the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, Socialist Republic of Serbia, Yugoslavia, in the city of Pristina, for the academic year 1969–1970 and functioned until 1999 (...) | |
| 25 | Operation Halyard ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 542 Lat/Lng : 44.0358 / 20.1781 | Operation Halyard (or Halyard Mission), known in Serbian as Operation Air Bridge , was an Allied airlift operation behind enemy lines during World War II. In July 1944, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) drew up plans to send a team to Chetniks led by General Draža Mihailović in the (...) | |
| 26 | Crveni Krst concentration camp ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 201 Lat/Lng : 43.33 / 21.8937 | The Crveni Krst concentration camp (lit. Red Cross concentration camp), located in Crveni Krst, Niš, was operated by the German Gestapo and used to hold captured Serbs, Jews and Romanis during the Second World War (...) | |
| 27 | Topovske Šupe concentration camp ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 90 Lat/Lng : 44.7903 / 20.4681 | The Topovske Šupe concentration camp was a concentration camp located on the outskirts of Belgrade which was operated by Nazi Germany with the help of Milan Nedić's quisling government during World War II. Located in the neighborhood of Autokomanda, on the site of an old military base, the camp held (...) | |
| 28 | Shkreli (tribe) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 813 Lat/Lng : 42.3333 / 19.6333 | Shkreli is a historical tribe (and region) in Northern Albania (see Malësia). With expansion of the Ottoman Empire, part of the tribe migrated to Rugova beginning in ca. 1700, after which they continued to migrate into the Sandžak region (today in Serbia and Montenegro) (...) | |
| 29 | December 14, 1998 Albanian–Yugoslav border ambush ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 405 Lat/Lng : 42.2756 / 20.5375 | On December 14, 1998, the Yugoslav Army (VJ) ambushed a group of 140 Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) militants attempting to smuggle weapons and supplies from their base in Albania into the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (...) | |
| 30 | Misdemeanor Appellate Court ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 926 Lat/Lng : 45.0 / -122.0 | The Misdemeanor Appellate Court of Republic of Serbia is a court of law with headquarters in Belgrade. The MAC is composed of three departments located in the cities of Novi Sad, Kragujevac and Niš. The President of the Court is Chief Judge Zoran Pasalic. (...) | |