Black Birds Field Celebration, Kosovo
July 2016. Serbian ultras celebrating in Kosovo
Battle of Blackbird's Field Part 2
Videos I shot during a presentation given at a site in Pristina, Kosovo known as The Battle of Kosovo, also known as the Battle of Kosovo Field or the Battle of Blackbird's Field.
Battle of Blackbird's Field
Videos I shot during a presentation given at a site in Pristina, Kosovo known as The Battle of Kosovo, also known as the Battle of Kosovo Field or the Battle of Blackbird's Field.
Battle of Blackbird's Field Part 1
Videos I shot during a presentation given at a site in Pristina, Kosovo known as The Battle of Kosovo, also known as the Battle of Kosovo Field or the Battle of Blackbird's Field.
Kosovo Blackbirds
Swarming across the rooftops
Serbia: Religious holiday celebrated on medieval Kosovo battlefield
About 1,000 Serbs gathered at the Gazimestan memorial near Pristina on Thursday to celebrate Vidovdan, a national Serbian holiday.
Vidovdan is the biggest festivity of Serbian people. If there was not Kosovo battle on this day, it will not be significant for us and for all Serbian people, said one demonstrator.
Vidovdan (St. Vitus Day - 28th June) commemorates the Great Kosovo battle, fought in 1389 between the Ottoman Empire and the Balkan's Christian lords and kings.
The battle is an important part of Serbian ethnic and national identity.
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The Ottoman invasion of Europe was truly challenged for the first time during the Battle of Kosovo of 1389. The Serbs and other Balkan peoples alongside their allies from Western and Eastern Europe fought valiantly against overwhelming odds and although they lost, the foundation of the future resistance, that continued until the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, was set. This battle was also remarkable due to the fact that leaders of both armies were killed during it. Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović died in the battle and Sultan Murad I was assassinated by the Serbian knight Miloš Obilić, who was killed shortly after. All three are considered martyrs by their people and the spirit of this battle is still part of the bitter animosity…
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John V. A. Fine; John Van Antwerp Fine (1994). The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. University of Michigan Press.
Ломоносов Матвей. Русские исторические источники Косовской битвы 1389 г.. — Пермь: Пермский госуниверситет, 2005
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Battle of Blackbird's Field
Videos I shot during a presentation given at a site in Pristina, Kosovo known as The Battle of Kosovo, also known as the Battle of Kosovo Field or the Battle of Blackbird's Field.
ERA Wildlife Video 2018
Environmentally Responsible Action (ERA) group is a not-for-profit association based in Kosovo with the mission of raising environmental consciousness, responsibility and awareness among Kosovo youth and citizens in order to protect the natural and cultural heritage. ERA has been based in the field for the last 15 years. During the last few years, ERA team with its partners have been systematically monitoring wildlife in National Park Bjeshket e Nemuna. This video clip offers a glimpse into the world around us, and it hope it will inspire us all to take responsibility and motivate us for action so that our natural and cultural treasures will be protected for the next generations.
WRAP Preps for Serb commemorations of battle of Kosovo, arrests
Mitrovica (45 Kilometres (27.9 miles) north of Pristina) - 28 June 2007
1. Various of Serb paramilitaries, known as 'Tsar Lazar Guard' boarding bus
2. People wrapped in Serbian flags
3. Close of back of man's t-shirt with map of Kosovo and a wolf
4. People walking towards buses
5. United Nations (UN) police
6. Bus driving down road
7. Various of people inside bus
8. Various of UN police
Gracanica (10 kilometres (6.21 miles) east of Kosovo) - 28 June 2007
9. Arrival of buses
10. Exteriors of Serb monastery
11. Various of mass
12. Men wearing t-shirts reading (Serbian) 'War till freedom'
13. Various of people at mass
14. Close-up of T-shirt with fugitive general Radko Mladic's photo
15. People in street
Road junction, 2 kilometres (1.24 miles) from Gazimestan - 28 June 2007
16. Kosovo police arresting people, some on the ground
17. Detainees being put inside van
18. Police handcuffing detainees on the ground
19. Side of bus
20. Police searching passengers' backpacks outside bus
21. Mid of police officer signalling
22. Wide of police line in front of buses
23. Travelling shot of police walking by buses, officers walking onto bus
24. Mid of police placing t-shirt on bare chested man reading (Serbian) 'We Won't Give up Kosovo'
25. Officers gathered
Gazimestan (10 kilometres (6.21 miles) north of Pristina) - 28 June 2007
26. Soldiers driving by monument
27. Group of teenagers outside monument
28. Close up of monument wall
29. People walking towards monument
30. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mikko Autti, NATO spokesman:
K4 (NATO peacekeeping force) has increased its presence in the streets, this is a matter of gaining situational awareness and is to show the public that we are here to provide a safe and secure environment and to assure freedom of movement for all Kosovars.
31. NATO military vehicles
32. Various of soldiers
STORYLINE:
NATO stepped up security by deploying armoured vehicles and increased patrols on Thursday, on the anniversary of a key focus of Serbian nationalism to commemorate the epic battle of Kosovo, at the Field of Blackbirds, in 1389.
The Serbs consider Kosovo the cradle of their statehood, and mark the 28th of June, when a Christian army led by Serbian Prince Lazar was defeated in Kosovo by invading Ottoman forces, as one of the most important dates in their history.
The celebrations will be held on at the field of Gazimestan in eastern Kosovo at the height of tensions in the province, where ethnic Albanians are becoming continually frustrated over Kosovo's stalled future.
K4 (NATO peacekeeping force) has increased its presence in the streets, this is a matter of gaining situational awareness and is to show the public that we are here to provide a safe and secure environment and to assure freedom of movement for all Kosovars, said NATO spokesman Mikko Autti.
A mass to celebrate the anniversary was also held in the city of Gracanica.
Afterwards people were expected to go back to Gazimestan for further celebrations and to sign a petition asking that Kosovo remains a part of Serbia forever.
Some buses driving people from the mass site to Gazimestan were stopped and searched by Kosovo police.
Officers were seen making arrests by the side of a road junction 2 kilometres (1.24 miles) from Gazimestan.
Kosovo, a province of two million (m), of whom 90 percent are ethnic Albanians, has been run by the United Nations (UN) since mid-1999 when a NATO air war halted a crackdown by Serb forces on separatist rebels.
Earlier this year, the UN unveiled a peace plan that would grant Kosovo supervised independence.
This was immediately rejected by Serbia and by Russia, which has threatened to veto the plan in the UN Security Council.
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Battle of Blackbird's Field
Videos I shot during a presentation given at a site in Pristina, Kosovo known as The Battle of Kosovo, also known as the Battle of Kosovo Field or the Battle of Blackbird's Field.
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Kosovo (Косово, [ˈkɔsɔvɔ]) is the Serbian neuter possessive adjective of kos (кос) blackbird,[10][11] an ellipsis for Kosovo Polje field of the blackbirds, the site of the 1389 Battle of Kosovo Field. The name of the field was applied to an Ottoman province created in 1864.
The region currently known as Kosovo became an administrative region in 1946, as the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija. In 1974, the compositional Kosovo and Metohija was reduced to simple Kosovo in the name of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, but in 1990 was renamed back to Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija.
Fully absorbed into the Serbian Kingdom until the end of the 12th, it became the secular and spiritual centre of the Serbian medieval state of the Nemanjić dynasty in the 13th century, with the Patriarchate of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Peć, while Prizren was the secular centre.[citation needed] The zenith was reached with the formation of a Serbian Empire in 1346, which after 1371 transformed from a centralised absolutist medieval monarchy to a feudal realm.[citation needed] Kosovo became the hereditary land of the House of Branković and Vučitrn and Pristina flourished. In the 1389 Battle of Kosovo, Ottoman forces defeated Serbs led by the Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović. Soon after parts of Serbia accepted Turkish vassalage and Lazar's daughter was married to the Sultan to seal peace. In 1402, a Serbian Despotate was raised and Kosovo became its richest territory, famous for mines.[citation needed] The local House of Branković came to prominence as the local lords of Kosovo, under Vuk Branković, with the temporary fall of the Serbian Despotate in 1439.[citation needed] By 1455, it was finally and fully conquered by the Ottoman Empire
Arrivals for Serb commemorations of battle of Kosovo, NATO comment
Gazimestan (10 kilometres north of Pristina) - 28 June 2007
1. Various of NATO soldiers around monument
2. Various of NATO on guard around monument
3. Serbs arriving at monument
4. Group of teenagers outside monument
5. Tilt down from poem on monument wall
6. Close up of monument wall
7. People walking towards monument
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mikko Autti, NATO spokesman:
K4 (NATO peacekeeping force) has increased its presence in the streets, this is a matter of gaining situational awareness and is to show the public that we are here to provide a safe and secure environment and to assure freedom of movement for all Kosovars.
9. NATO military vehicles
10. Various of soldiers
Mitrovica (45 Kilometres north of Pristina) - 28 June 2007
11. Various of Serb paramilitaries, known as 'Tsar Lazar Guard' boarding bus
12. People wrapped in Serbian flags
13. Close of back of man's t-shirt with map of Kosovo and a wolf
14. People walking towards buses
15. United Nations (UN) police
16. Bus driving down road
17. Various of people inside bus
18. Various of UN police
Gracanica (10 kilometers east of Kosovo) - 28 June 2007
19. Arrival of buses
20. Exteriors of Serb monastery
21. Various of mass
22. Men wearing t-shirts reading (Serbian) 'War till freedom'
23. Various of people at mass
24. Close-up of T-shirt with fugitive general Radko Mladic's photo
25. Various of mass
26. People in street
27. Mid of guards
STORYLINE:
NATO stepped up security by deploying armoured vehicles and increased patrols on Thursday, on the anniversary of a key focus of Serbian nationalism to commemorate the epic battle of Kosovo, at the Field of Blackbirds, in 1389.
The Serbs consider Kosovo the cradle of their statehood, and mark the 28th of June, when a Christian army led by Serbian Prince Lazar was defeated in Kosovo by invading Ottoman forces, as one of the most important dates in their history.
The celebrations will be held on at the field of Gazimestan in eastern Kosovo at the height of tensions in the province, where ethnic Albanians are becoming continually frustrated over Kosovo's stalled future.
K4 (NATO peacekeeping force) has increased its presence in the streets, this is a matter of gaining situational awareness and is to show the public that we are here to provide a safe and secure environment and to assure freedom of movement for all Kosovars, said NATO spokesman Mikko Autti.
A mass to celebrate the anniversary was also held in the city of Gracanica.
Afterwards people were expected to go back to Gazimestan for further celebrations and to sign a petition asking that Kosovo remains a part of Serbia forever.
Kosovo, a province of two million (m), of whom 90 percent are ethnic Albanians, has been run by the United Nations (UN) since mid-1999 when a NATO air war halted a crackdown by Serb forces on separatist rebels.
Earlier this year, the UN unveiled a peace plan that would grant Kosovo supervised independence.
This was immediately rejected by Serbia and by Russia, which has threatened to veto the plan in the UN Security Council.
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crows in Kosovo.3gp
There are thousands of crazy crows in Kosovo
The problem of Kosovo A
To put the problem of Kosovo to the right base we must take a quick look to the way it started. Kosovo's majority population was Serbian. Very few Albanians were in Kosovo
Slavs that came into Balkans in the 6th century a.c settled in todays Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania and FYROM-Vardaska. Kosovo was then a province of the Byzantine Empire with Greek population that became Slavic after that incident,and many Serbs settled there.
The name Kosovo comes from the Serbian name for the blackbird kos and the name of Metoxia comes from a monastery estate and there is an enormous number of monuments that witness the Serbian presence in that territory since the 6th century a.c while there is not a single evidence for Albanian presence in that region...
Battle of Kosovo
This page is about the Battle of Kosovo of 1389. For other battles, see Battle of Kosovo (disambiguation); for the 1989 film depicting the battle, see Battle of Kosovo (film)
The Battle of Kosovo, also known as the Battle of Kosovo Field (Serbian: Косовска битка, Бој на Косову; Kosovska bitka; Boj na Kosovu; Turkish: Kosova Meydan Savaşı), took place on St. Vitus' Day, June 15, 1389, between the army led by Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović, and the invading army of the Ottoman Empire under the leadership of Sultan Murad I. The army under Prince Lazar consisted of his own troops, a contingent led by Serbian nobleman Vuk Branković, and a contingent sent from Bosnia by King Tvrtko I, commanded by Vlatko Vuković. Prince Lazar was the ruler of Moravian Serbia, and the most powerful among the Serbian regional lords of the time, while Vuk Branković ruled a part of Kosovo and other areas, recognizing Lazar as his overlord. The Battle of Kosovo took place in the Kosovo Polje, about 5 kilometers northwest of modern-day Pristina.
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Arrivals for Serb commemorations of battle of Kosovo, NATO comment
Gazimestan (10 kilometres north of Pristina) - 28 June 2007
1. Various of NATO soldiers around monument
2. Various of NATO on guard around monument
3. Soldier walking
4. Serbs arriving at monument
5. Group of teenagers outside monument
6. Tilt down from poem on monument wall
7. Close up of monument wall
8. People walking towards monument
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mikko Autti, NATO spokesman:
K4 (NATO peacekeeping force) has increased its presence in the streets, this is a matter of gaining situational awareness and is to show the public that we are here to provide a safe and secure environment and to assure freedom of movement for all Kosovars.
7. NATO military vehicles
8. Various of soldiers
Mitrovica (45 Kilometres north of Pristina) - 28 June 2007
9. Various of Serb paramilitaries, known as 'Tsar Lazar Guard' boarding bus
10. People wrapped in Serbian flags
11. Close of back of man's t-shirt with map of Kosovo and a wolf
12. People walking towards buses
13. United Nations (UN) police
14. Bus driving down road
15. Various of people inside bus
16. Various of UN police
Gracanica (10 kilometers east of Kosovo) - 28 June 2007
17. Arrival of buses
18. Exteriors of Serb monastery
19. Various of mass
20. Men wearing t-shirts reading (Serbian) 'War till freedom'
21. Various of people at mass
22. Close-up of T-shirt with fugitive general Radko Mladic's photo
23. Various of mass
24. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Voxpop, no name given:
We are here to commemorate our day and in another way we are here to say we will never give Kosovo away.
25. People in street
26. Mid of guards
STORYLINE:
NATO stepped up security by deploying armoured vehicles and increased patrols on Thursday, on the anniversary of a key focus of Serbian nationalism to commemorate the epic battle of Kosovo, at the Field of Blackbirds, in 1389.
The Serbs consider Kosovo the cradle of their statehood, and mark the 28th of June, when a Christian army led by Serbian Prince Lazar was defeated in Kosovo by invading Ottoman forces, as one of the most important dates in their history.
The celebrations will be held on at the field of Gazimestan in eastern Kosovo at the height of tensions in the province, where ethnic Albanians are becoming continually frustrated over Kosovo's stalled future.
K4 (NATO peacekeeping force) has increased its presence in the streets, this is a matter of gaining situational awareness and is to show the public that we are here to provide a safe and secure environment and to assure freedom of movement for all Kosovars, said NATO spokesman Mikko Autti.
A mass to celebrate the anniversary was also held in the city of Gracanica.
We are here to commemorate our day and in another way we are here to say we will never give Kosovo away, said one participant in the celebrations.
Kosovo, a province of two million (m), of whom 90 percent are ethnic Albanians, has been run by the United Nations (UN) since mid-1999 when a NATO air war halted a crackdown by Serb forces on separatist rebels.
Earlier this year, the UN unveiled a peace plan that would grant Kosovo supervised independence.
This was immediately rejected by Serbia and by Russia, which has threatened to veto the plan in the UN Security Council.
You can license this story through AP Archive:
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