EKSPANSIONI ARSIMOR SERB NË KOSOVË NË FUND TË SHEK. XIX DHE NË FILLIM TË SHEK. XX
SERBIAN EDUCATION EXPANSION IN KOSOVA IN THE END OF THE 19-th CENTURY AND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20-th CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: Throughout the 19th century, today`s Kosovo was a multi- ethnic, a multi- religious province. In addition to Albanians, both Muslims and Catholics – consisting the majority of the population – there were also Serb Orthodox community, whose religious, cultural and educational life until Tanzimat, was primarily concentrated around the monasteries. Later, especially after 1856, Ottoman government recognized them the right to have their own public schools, out of monasteries, as well as the right to receive external funding by foreign powers, mainly Serbia and Russia. Taking advantage of this favor, the Government in Belgrade was actively engaging in politics of supporting Serbs in Kosovo, mainly by sending teaching staff and subsidizing schools in Serbian with aims to revive the national consciousness of Serbs. Serbia and its supporter Russia, viewed educational system as an appropriate mean for propaganda in order to exercise and extent their influence, and thus fulfill their expansionist objectives in ottoman vilayats with Albanian population. The decline and the weakening of the Ottoman Empire, manifested by their in tolerance and lack of focus paved the way and raised the appetites of the newly established neighboring countries such as Serbia, Greece and Monte Negro to go against and at the expense of Albanian territories.

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