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. . . .Kosovska Mitrovica is a city located on the North of Kosovo and Metohija in tje Republic of Serbia at 42°89° North and East 20°87°. Kosovska Mitrovica is a municipality that covers an area of 35 km square. Besides the city, municipality also consists of 49 villages. Kososka Mitrovica is situated in the North of Kosovo Polje ((Kosovo field) and it is bounded from the East Mokra Gora, North mountain Kopaonik and west by mountain Golija. There are three rivers that flow through the city - Sitnica and Ljusta which are not as important as The river Ibar that divides the city in two parts - the Northern one and the Southern one. From the city up to North spreads the canyon of the River Ibar where it flows to Kraljevo and further it flows in West.
. . . Kosovska Mitrovica is one of the oldest settlements in Kosovo and it is mentioned in written documents of the Middle Age. It is supposed that Mitrovica gor its name accordign to Saint Dimitrije of Thessaloniki, but there are also many other legends about origin of name of the city.
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. . .Nowadays, city is mentioned, for the first time as Dmitrovica in the middle of the 15-th century. That name was given according to the church of St.Dimitrije. During the Otoman Empire, Mitrovica was a typical little oriental town. After the first Balkanian war in 1912 Kosovska Mitrovica,m together with the rest of Kosovo and Macedonia, came into kigdom of Serbia, and later in 1918 , it became a part of Kindom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians. After the World War II, and in keeping with the principle that in every Republic and province in Socialistic Federal Republic of Yugoslavia should be a town which would be named by president Josip Broz Tito, Kosovska Mitrovica was renamed to Titova Mitrovica, (Titos Mitrovica). But, at the beginning of the 90´s the old name was given back to it.
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. . .Before NATO bombing in 1999 Mitrovica municipality had 116.500 inhabitants according to OSCE estimation. According to 1991 census municipality had 104.022 inhabitants. The Serbs mostly lived in the Northen part of the river Ibar, while the Albanians live in its southern part. The city became the center of constant conflicts because the Albanian extremissts wanted to establish unique administrative administration over city by using force, and the Serbs are totally against it because they believe it would be the beginning of expellation of Serbs from this city. Today, the city has 84.736 inhabitants.
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