“Reconquista of Old Serbia”

This chapter presents and analyzes a series of administrative and demographic measures (changes in territorial status, colonization, emigration) to which the space of Kosovo was subject in the Serbian and Yugoslav state, from the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the mid-1950s. In contrast to accepted ideas of a radical discontinuity of policy occurring after World War II, this research shows that there was considerable (if surprising) continuity, present even in the first decade of socialist Yugoslavia.