Talk:Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija

This article provides no satisfactory history of Kosovo and has the gaul to call it "Kosovo and Metohija" despite the Serbian propaganda of "Kosovo je Srbija", ignoring the hundreds if not even, thousands of years of Kosovar history.

The notion of Slavic inhabitation of Kosovo began not with the Serbs in their mystical tale of "Bitka na Kosovu" (Battle of Kosovo) but farther into the 6th century (Noel Malcolm's "A Short History of Kosovo"). Kosovo's first Slavs were noted to be Bulgarians under Khan Presian when Kosovo was incorporated into Bulgaria in the 9th century (Elsie, 2010). Between 1072 and 12th century, Kosovo was part of the Byzantine rule until the Nemanjić dynasty came in late 12th century and began incorporating Kosovo until accomplishing it by 1219 (Prinzing, 2008).

I also believe that the article should be renamed from "Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija" into "Kosovo" simply for a reason because Kosovo's history is as longitudinal as the rest of the histories are within the Balkan area. And also, it is because we don't (and shouldn't) be considering Kosovo as a 20th century creation with this downright ignorance.

Frankly I am not entirely sure why this has happened but we appear to have two articles on the subject, this one and Republic of Kosovo, I don't see a need for it so I will be combining the two into the Republic of Kosovo page.

On your other point, at no point do we suggest that Kosovar history began in the 20th century, just because we had yet to write the history doesn't not mean we consider it to have not existed. If you look at many other articles you will find a similar story of incomplete articles where editors are yet to find time to write a full history. I find most editors tend to avoid Yugoslav topics since its so hotly contested so understandably there was much yet to be written on this topic.