Talk:Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo/Archive 1

Archive 1

Flag of SAR Kosovo

Did Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo have its own flag and emblem? --Camptown 11:23, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

No. Only republics of SFRY had flags and emblems, but not autonomous provinces. PANONIAN (talk) 17:12, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

S.A.P. Kosova (and Metohija)

The name of the souther province in Socialist Serbia was Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija.

Kosovo is just one part of it, and Metohija is another. There was no political division between two of them, just geographical. Even in present Serbia, official name for province is also Kosovo and Metohija. But, in UN documents after 1999, someone pushed name Kosovo, so it is now international. Anyway, I do not think that we can go in history and change all the names. --Iricigor 18:00, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Before 1974, it was Kosovo and Metohija, but in 1974 it was changed to just Kosovo (and changed back later). Nikola 03:43, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

merge

Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (1946–1974) basically describe the same thing. It's not really clear why the naming or constitutional difference should be used as a delimiter for article names, we didn't do that in case of the Yugoslav republics. The Vojvodina history articles are split in 1963, not 1974, and that also seems arbitrary. The common article name could be something simple and descriptive, such as Kosovo in SFR Yugoslavia. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 22:29, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

And yet there's also Republic of Kosova that also describes the period of 1990 when Kosovo was still part of SFR Yugoslavia. Much of that article is self-contradictory - in the lead, it says the proclamation was in 1991, and in the article text, it says the proclamation was in Sep 1992. At the same time, the article History of Kosovo#The 1990s says that its main article is the Kosovo War article. This is a mess - we clearly need a normal history article that covers the period of Kosovo in FR Yugoslavia. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 08:16, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Yes; we seem to have a lot of different overlapping modern-history articles. (And even more articles which include a selective history of Kosovo, often starting in 1913). bobrayner (talk) 02:07, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

While I agree that the three article on SFRY Kosovo history need merging, and that into Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, I disagree that we should do away with the Kosova article, since, so far as I understand, that's an article about a real-life unrecognized entity. The subject of Kosovar history in the FR Yugoslavia, imo, clearly needs to be covered in Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, so far as that article exists. -- Director (talk) 08:08, 6 August 2013 (UTC)