The challenge is to devise a way for Milosevic to be able to keep Kosovo in the Serbian polity without ethnic cleansing. POD must be after 1991
Only thing that comes to mind, I don't know much about the history of the exact area if I'm being honest, is that the Albanians in Kosovo never move there. I've been told they're relatively new arrivals, and a different set of historical circumstances could have led to continued Serbian dominance, meaning there's no grounds for separation when Yugoslavia breaks apart.The challenge is to devise a way for Milosevic to be able to keep Kosovo in the Serbian polity without ethnic cleansing. POD must be after 1991
Only thing that comes to mind, I don't know much about the history of the exact area if I'm being honest, is that the Albanians in Kosovo never move there. I've been told they're relatively new arrivals, and a different set of historical circumstances could have led to continued Serbian dominance, meaning there's no grounds for separation when Yugoslavia breaks apart.
That article says that Serbs were the majority in the 1870's, and 45% of the population at the turn of the century. A PoD that sees the breakup of the Austrian empire a bit earlier and the creation of a Serbian state encompassing Kosovo could result in a long term maintenance of Serb majority status."Recent" as within the past few centuries...