Albanian Kosova
Geographic region (pop., 2001 est.: 2,325,000) within the republic of Serbia , Serbia and Montenegro.
It occupies an area of 4,203 sq mi (10,887 sq km); its capital is Priština . Before 1999, ethnic Albanians, most of whom are Muslims, made up nine-tenths of its population, with Serbs (mostly Christian) accounting for the remainder. Kosovo was an autonomous region until 1989, when Serbia took control of Kosovo's administration, prompting protests from the region's Albanian population, and in 1992 they voted to secede from Yugoslavia. Serbia responded by tightening its control of Kosovo, which led to the Kosovo conflict . From 1999 the region was administered by the UN.