Mitrovica

Serbia’s Ukrainians Struggle to Keep Identity Alive

Hocak says that families like his migrated to Bosnia as part of a policy of the Austro-Hungarian authorities to resettle territories they had seized off the collapsing Ottoman Empire. [The Habsburg Empire occupied Bosnia in 1878 and annexed it in 1908.]

After World War II, Hocak's family moved to Vojvodina, seeing this region as more developed.

Music School Keeps Divided Kosovo Town Rocking

As a member of Kosovo's Bosniak community, Ilda was caught between two stools since birth - collateral damage of the age-old conflict over Kosovo between Serbs and Albanians.

She lived in the mainly Albanian south of Mitrovica until August 2018, but then shifted over the bridge, across the river that divides the town.

Now Albanian wants to become mayor of "united" K. Mitrovica

According to the northern-Kosovo based KoSSev website, Bahtiri is proposing that he should govern a "united (Kosovska Mitrovica."

"I demand that the Kosovo government take all the necessary legal actions to immediately abolish the decision to divide Mitrovica into two municipalities," Bahtiri wrote on his Facebook profile.

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