Kosovo: History in Maps

Mirela Altic, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences and Full Professor at the University of Zagreb. Her expertise is in the map history of the Balkans and the Americas, which gives her particular insight into the comparative history of mapmaking.

• List of Figures and TablesIntroduction1 Some Historiographical Remarks2 The Notion of Kosovo throughout History – from Campus Merulae to Nation State3 Geographic Features of Kosovo1 Kosovo in Antiquity1 In the Heart of the Roman Empire – Kosovo in Ptolemy’s Map of the Upper Moesia (Moesia Superior)2 Kosovo in the Network of Roman Roads as Presented by the Peutinger Map2 The Middle Ages1 On the Borderland of Byzantium and the Serbian Principality (Rascia) – Kosovo after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire on a Map by Muhammad al-Idrīsī of 11542 Kosovo as a Seat of the Medieval Serbian Kingdom on Ptolemaic Maps3 Beginnings of the Ottoman Conquest1 Echoes of the Early Ottoman Incursions and the Great Battle of Kosovo (1389)2 The Fall of Kosovo after the Battle at Novobërdë (1455) on Fra Mauro’s Mappa Mundi4 The Period of Early Ottoman Rule in Kosovo1 Outlines of New Human Landscapes of Kosovo – a Country Yet to Be Known5 Kosovo as a Theatre of War of the Ottoman Empire and Habsburg Monarchy1 The Period of the Great Turkish War (1683–1699) and the Appearance of the First Regional Maps2 Kosovo on War Theatre Maps in the Time of the Peace Treaties of Passarowitz (1718) and Belgrade (1739)3 Habsburg Efforts from the Period of the Last Habsburg–Ottoman War (1788–1791)6 The Ottoman Empire and Kosovo in the Crisis of the Nineteenth Century1 Kosovo at the Time of the Expansion of the Pashalik of Belgrade on Franz von Weiss’ Map of European Turkey from 18292 Kosovo in the Eyes of European Travelers: the Rise of Local Pashas and Rebellious Albanian Tribes3 The First Presentation of Kosovo within the Scope of Serbian National Cartography7 Eastern Question and the Great Powers: Kosovo Appears as a Territorial Entity1 Demarcations of the San Stefano Peace Treaty and the Berlin Congress (1878) on an Austrian Topographic Map of European Turkey from 1876/18782 Kosovo in the Era of Nation-State Nationalism: Ethnographic Maps in the Service of National Ideologies and Territorial Aspirations – Confronting Views3 Balkan Wars (1912/1913): Drawing the New Political Map of the Balkans8 The First World War and Its Aftermath1 Military Campaign of 1915 in War Report Map by Walter Paasche2 Frontier-Making at the Paris Peace Conference – Kosovo in the Demarcation between Albania and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes9 Interwar Period (1918–1941): Kosovo within the Yugoslav Kingdom1 Partitions of Kosovo in the Administrative Divisions of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia2 Redrawing the Human Landscape: Planned Colonization of Kosovo3 Typology of Settlements and New Place-Names as a Tool of Territorial Appropriation Documented by the Topographic Map by the Yugoslav Military Geographical Institute10 The Second World War1 Occupation and Division of Kosovo among Germany, Italy, and Bulgaria2 Kosovo during the Occupation and Major Military Operations in Allied Intelligence Maps11 The Autonomous Province of Kosovo in Socialist Yugoslavia1 Territorialization of Kosovo in 1945–19632 Kosovo in the Time of Constitutional Changes 1968–19743 Changes in the Ethnic Composition of the Population 1971–199112 Towards Its Independence1 A Decade of Struggle and Warfare2 International Recognition and NATO ForcesAfterwordBibliographyIndex