By Kabil BUSHATI When the Serbian tribes crossed Illyria, sometime around the 7th century, as nomads arriving from the Carpathian mountain range, they pitched their tents like Gypsies to rest in the shade of Rozafa Castle and tied their dogs and mules to the marble statues of the colonnade at Apollonia and Butrint. These pagans, finding no place to settle, went into the northern depths of the Balkans and later established the state of Raška. Being somewhat barbarous and warlike, by the end of the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th century they managed to conquer the entire central part of our peninsula. Supported by the Byzantine Empire, from which they also adopted the religion and learned to organize a state, they came to threaten Byzantium itself, as they sought to become the center of this empire. With the death of Stefan Dušan, this empire disintegrated and the Turks were once again forced to enter the borders of Raška. Kosovo was never part of the borders of this state called Raška. After the Battle of Kosovo (1389), the Balkan coalition against the Turkish invasion, just as it had conquered the whole Balkans, Raška too fell under Ottoman rule, and was called the “Vilayet of Kosovo” (Belgrade). After the end of the First World War, in 1918, when the Slovenian-Croatian intellectual strata began and diplomatic divisions among the Bosnians [text unclear], the artificial state with the name ... was created Continued on [?], page 3

From “Republika” correspondent in Kukës, Alba Bungo:

GORAN BREGOVIĆ: Nationalism has entered music too “I am the only Yugoslav musician who has made a song in Albanian” Page 2, 13

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Serbs enter Tropoja. 30 minutes, attack on Zogaj. Romanian smugglers, fuel for the Serbs. The great massacre of Gjakova P. 2, 4

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• The Head of the Treasury, 7 hours in a cell Page 7 • SHIK refuses to accept Parliament as godfather Page 10 • Imports rob customs • Aid pays off the rents Pages 8-9 • Kosovars give and ask for addresses Pages 7, 15