KOSOVO I METOHIJA I ALBANCI (ŠIPTARI) U SRBIJI I JUGOSLAVIJI 1944-1948.
THE ALBANIANS (SHIPTARS) IN SERBIA AND YUGOSLAVIA 1944-1948.

Summary/Abstract: The problems of Albanians in Serbia and Yugoslavia are usually taken to refer only to the problem of Kosovo, or rather to the rights of Albanians in Serbia and Yugoslavia. The Albanians (and not only they ) see the solution of this problem in the secession of Kosovo from Serbia and Yugoslavia, or at least in the exemption of Kosovo from the legal and political system of Yugoslavia, particularly that of Serbia. Throughout their existence in Serbia and Yugoslavia the political activity of the Albanians has been more or less centered on the desire for independence by the secession of Kosovo (sometimes also areas beyond Kosovo) from Serbia and its annexation to Albania, and regardless of the ways in which it has been presented at various points in history, this has always been the ultimate goal of the Albanian movement in Kosovo and of every one of its organized or spontaneous acts. The same purpose can be traced in the movement’s activity back to 1918. The communists simplified the attainment of these separatist goals by turning this region into an autonomous province with a specific administrative and territorial status, and annexing it to Serbia in 1945.

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