Analyzing Kosovo's names

[Andrjh]

Another mistake you make is of course you have taken some of those Slavic toponyms in Kosovo that have clearly Albanian versions such as Malisheve, Skenderaj, Drenas, Ferizaj and many others and represented the Slavic versions as more authentic when actually some of these Albanian versions aren't recent change but are actually old and compared them automatically to some non-Slavic names from Albania. it just shows that just like in Albania, Albanians also have their own toponyms for some of these towns in Kosovo regardless if the Serbs have their own versions which aren't used by Albanians anway. Some toponyms of course have entirely been taken from Slavic both in Albania and Kosovo others have changed naturally later and others are older.

Some other micro toponyms of mountains and villages are also Albanian.


Dukagjin for example is certainly an Albanian toponym which refers to large parts of Kosovo and is an old toponym dating back to the medieval period and was also used by the Ottomans when they founded the Sanjak of Dukagjin that included parts of Western Kosovo. This is a case of an old Albanian toponym where Albanians use their own version instead of the Slavic or Greek version such as Metohija. Same can be argued for some of those towns and villages.

[Castor]

Another mistake you make is of course you have taken some of those Slavic toponyms in Kosovo that have clearly Albanian versions such as Malisheve, Skenderaj, Drenas, Ferizaj

Which user's sock account are you?

Priština -"Prišt" - Serbian word for cattle decease

Peć -"peć" - furnace in Serbian

Gnjilane -"gnjilo"- Serbian word for "rotten"

Uroševac -"Uroš"- Serbian male name (Albanians call it "Ferizaj" which is Turkish name for this town)

Kosovska Mitrovica -"Kosovska"- Kosovar in Serbian;Mitrovica -"Mitar", Serbian male name

Drenica - "dren"- cornel tree in Serbian

Kamenica - "kamen" - stone in Serbian

Leposavić - "Leposava" - Serbian female name

Đakovica - "đak" - Serbian word for student

Lipljan - "lipa" - which means linden in Serbian

Wondering why are all these medieval monasteries and churches burned.







They are burned because they are living proof that Serbs were there before Albanians. They were built by Serbian kings and emperors. But for those savage beasts called Kosovar Albanians, nothing is sacred, not even Serbian graves.







There is no Albanian cultural heritage in Kosovo and Metohija.

[Dušan]

Which user's sock account are you?

Priština -"Prišt" - Serbian word for cattle decease

Peć -"peć" - furnace in Serbian

Gnjilane -"gnjilo"- Serbian word for "rotten"

Uroševac -"Uroš"- Serbian male name (Albanians call it "Ferizaj" which is Turkish name for this town)

Kosovska Mitrovica -"Kosovska"- Kosovar in Serbian;Mitrovica -"Mitar", Serbian male name

Drenica - "dren"- cornel tree in Serbian

Kamenica - "kamen" - stone in Serbian

Leposavić - "Leposava" - Serbian female name

Đakovica - "đak" - Serbian word for student

Lipljan - "lipa" - which means linden in Serbian

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Even more:

Orahovac - place of walnuts

Glogovac - place of hawthorn

Vučitrn - wolf's thorn

Istok - East

Suva Reka - dry river

Novo Brdo - new hill

Janjevo - lamb


These are all clearly Serbian (Slavic) toponyms in Kosovo and Metohija, and they have not any meaning in Albanian language.

[Castor]

Even more:

Orahovac - place of walnuts

Glogovac - place of hawthorn

Vučitrn - wolf's thorn

Istok - East

Suva Reka - dry river

Novo Brdo - new hill

Janjevo - lamb


These are all clearly Serbian (Slavic) toponyms in Kosovo and Metohija, and they have not any meaning in Albanian language.

Thanks for the added names.

[Dušan]

Lets go with hidronymes - names of rivers.

There are in Metohija even there Бистрица (Bistrica) rivers: Prizrenska, Pećka and Dečanska Bistrica.

Bistrica in Serbian means clear water.
With typical Slavic -ица (-ica) suffix.

In Kosovo field there are rivers Sitnica (again Slavic -ica) and Nerodimka.

Sitnica means small in Serbian.
Nerodimka means non-fertile in Serbian.

In east Kosovo, there is river Binačka Morava.
Yes, you can find Morava in Slavic Czechia.

[Andrjh]

There is evidence to show that Kosovo, at least it's Western and Central parts was already Albanian in the 1600's, such as the account of one Turkish traveler that traveled the region that described it as Albanian. Nothing suggests most of these Albanians had come from Northern Albania. Larger groups of the ones that came from northern Albania came later. By the time they came so did many Serbs

Thirdly, the idea that a fixed but gradually eroded Serb population was swamped by a tide of Albanian immigration is misleadingly schematic. There was a flux and emigration, settlement and resettlement, in all sectors of the population. Waves of Orthodox people also migrated into Kosovo: the forced migration of one body of Vasojevic clansmen has already been mentioned, and a large group of Orthodox Vlachs, most of whom would eventually be assimilated in the Serbian Orthodox population, came in the 1770's. Just as Catholic Albanian highlanders moved into Kosovo from the Malesi, so Orthodox Slav ones from the mountains of Montenegro moved into the Sandzak of Novi Pazar; from there, many also spread into northern Kosovo. Members of all the Montenigrin clans took part in this population drift, though they tended to be lumped together under the clan-name Vasojevic. Their reason for moving were just the same as those of the Albanians: a search for better land or grazing, and a desire to escape from vendettas. One French traveller in Kosovo noted in 1911 that some parts of northern Kosovo which had lost their Serbs in the eighteenth century had regained a Slav population not long afterwards: villages near Vucitern which had been entirely Albanianized up to 100 or eighty years ago, he wrote, had then become completely repopulated by Slavs. These Slav highlanders (like their Albanian equivalents) had a very high birth-rate. Orthodox people moved to Kosovo not only from Montenegro, but from all the other surrounding areas too.

This idea that the Albanians gradually replaced the Serb population there as a result of some mass immigration is of course false. It's more likely Kosovo became an Albanian enclave after the Albanians in Nish and surrounding areas, north of Kosovo, were expelled.

[Dušan]

Lakes in Kosovo and Metohija

Lake Gazivode - means tread on water in Serbian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazivoda_Lake

Lake Radonjićko - means that belong to Radonjić (Serbian surname).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radoniq_lake


Nothing Albanian in their names.

[Varda]

More clearly Serbian toponyms in Kosovo.

Kobilica - little mare (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobilica)

Peskovi - sands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peskovi)

Zubin Potok - teeth stream (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zubin_Potok)

Banjica - little spa (https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjica_(Istok))

Brod - ship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brod,_Dragaš)

Gora - the forest/mountain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gora_(region))

Zli Potok - evil stream (https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zli_Potok)

Vranište - place inhabitated with crows (https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vranište_(Gora))

Tica - bird (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tica)

Suva Reka - dry river (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suva_Reka)

Ratkovac - from Ratko, Serbian male name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratkovac_(Orahovac))

Novo Brdo - new hill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novo_Brdo)

[Varda]

Oštro Koplje - sharp spear (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshtro_Koplje)

Kućica - small house (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kućica)

Babin Most - grandma's bridge (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babin_Most)

Blato - mud (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blato_(Podujevo))

Dvorište - yard (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorište_(Podujevo))

[Varda]

Maja Jezercë is albanized version of original Serbian name Jezerski Vrh (lake peak) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maja_Jezercë

Northern Albania is full of Serbian toponyms, let alone Kosovo.