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ЗЛОУПОТРЕБА ПРОШЛОСТИ У ПОЛИТИЧКЕ СВРХЕ
THE ABUSE OF PAST FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES

A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF WORKS OF ALBANIAN HISTORIANS AND LINGUISTS

Author(s): Ljijana Čolić
Subject(s): History, Geography, Regional studies, Applied Linguistics, Ethnohistory
Published by: Istorijski institut, Beograd
Keywords: Serbs; Albanians; toponyms; anthroponyms; ethnic area; population; minorities; origin; historical sources; past; presence

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the long-standing activity of Albanian researchers to prove, based primarily on the analysis of the names of places and personal names in the area of Kosovo and Metohija, that the majority Albanian population are indigenous, and that the presence of the Serbian ethnic element is over-represented in Serbian historiography.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 69
  • Page Range: 539-555
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Serbian