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Serbs started settling in Kosovo after Austrian-Ottoman wars in 1690 which further increased their population and they expelled 60k Albanians out of the Toplica area and into Kosovo. Serbs settled in villages abandoned by Albanians after Austrian-Ottoman wars. (There was even a study on Kosovo Serbs that showed good chunk, if not most of them, had come from somewhere else and the guy who did the study even cherrypicked the area (some parts of Eastern Kosovo) which was known to of had a higher amount of Orthodox Slavs) but that will be for another time.
Noel Malcolm, who offers a detailed critique of the competing versions of Kosovo’s history,
cites evidence to suggest that Patriarch Arsenije neither sided with the Catholic Habsburgs nor led the revolt against the Ottomans. He and others who fled with the Habsburgs merely distrusted that the Ottoman reconquest of Kosovo would be peaceful. Malcolm add sthat Leopold I’s ‘invitation’ of April is best known from the doctored form published in the nineteenth century, which disguised its original purpose of persuading Serbs everywhere not to flee their homes, but rather to rise up against the resurgent Ottomans. According to Malcolm, the number of refugees to Hungary (from Serbia as a whole, not merelyKosovo) was individuals, not families. Thus, in his judgement, the events that followed the Habsburgs’ invasion more closely resembled the Albanian, rather than the Serbian, version of national history. Here is a remarkable reversal, as Malcolm, like other Western historians, had previously accepted the Serbian account.In this case, however, Ottoman records contain useful information aboutthe ethnicities of the leading actors in the story. In comparison with‘Serbs’, who were not a meaningful category to the Ottoman state, its records refer to ‘Albanians’ more frequently than to many other cultural or linguistic groups. The term ‘Arnavud’ was used to denote persons who spoke one of the dialects of Albanian, came from mountainous country inthe western Balkans (referred to as ‘Arnavudluk’, and including not onlythe area now forming the state of Albania but also neighbouring parts of Greece, Macedonia, Kosovo, and Montenegro), organized society on thestrength of blood ties (family, clan, tribe), engaged predominantly in a mixof settled agriculture and livestock herding, and were notable fighters
‒ a group, in short, difficult to control.
The seventeenth-century Ottoman notable and author Evliya Çelebi,who wrote a massive account of his travels around the empire and abroad,included in it details of local society that normally would not appear inofficial correspondence; for this reason, his account of a visit to several towns in Kosovo in 1660's is extremely valuable. Evliya confirms that western and at least parts of central Kosovo were ‘Arnavud (Albania)’.
https://www.academia.edu/18229289/Th...Case_of_Kosovo
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