Some Legal and Practical Aspects of the Process of Colonization and Expatriation in the Territory of Macedonia and Kosovo: 1912-1941
Some Legal and Practical Aspects of the Process of Colonization and Expatriation in the Territory of Macedonia and Kosovo: 1912-1941

Summary/Abstract: After the First World War in the territory of Macedonia and Kosovo intrusive and large-scale forced deprivations of private property were carried out with the aim of changing the ethnic structure. As a consequence of laws pertaining to the agrarian reform, a considerable mass of land belonging to the Albanian population of Macedonia and Kosovo was forcefully expropriated and allocated to Serbian peasants coming from Montenegro and Serbia. These actions succeeded in spreading uncertainty among the local landowners, many of whom sold out their property for symbolic prices just to avoid further persecution. The new ownership structures contributed furthermore to the forced displacement of the Albanian population.

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