Map of the Yugoslavian Serbian Province of Kosovo Poster

Kosovo (pronounced /ˈkɒsəvoʊ, ˈkoʊsəvoʊ/; Albanian: Kosovë, Kosova; Serbian: Косово or Косово и Метохија, Kosovo or Kosovo i Metohija) is a region in southeastern Europe. For most of the existence of Yugoslavia, it was the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (Serbian: Аутономна Покрајина Косово и Метохија, Autonomna Pokrajina Kosovo i Metohija) within Serbia (Serbia then being one of the constituent republics of Yugoslavia), and is still so regarded by Serbia (as declared in the 2006 Constitution of Serbia). In consequence of Yugoslavia's defeat in the Kosovo War, the country relinquished control of this territory, whose governance was taken over by the United Nations. The partially recognised Republic of Kosovo (Albanian: Republika e Kosovës; Serbian: Република Косово, Republika Kosovo), a self-declared independent state, has de facto control over most of the territory, with North Kosovo being the largest Kosovo Serb enclave. Serbia does not recognise the unilateral secession of Kosovo and considers it a UN-governed entity within its sovereign territory. Image reproduction rights can be found in the link near the bottom of this description. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kosovo_map-en.svg kosovo map "kosovo map" serbia yugoslavia "map of kosovo"