Leskovac is a city and the administrative center of the Jablanica District in southern Serbia. According to the 2022 census, the city of Leskovac has 123,950 inhabitants.
Prokuplje is a city and the administrative center of the Toplica District in southern Serbia. As of 2022 census, the municipality has a population of 38,054 inhabitants.
Novo Selo, meaning "new village" in several Slavic languages, may refer to the following places:
Banatsko Novo Selo is a village located in the municipality of Pančevo, South Banat District, Vojvodina, Serbia. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 7,089 people.
Muhaxhir and Muhaxher are Ottoman Albanian communities that left their homes as refugees or were transferred, from Greece, Serbia and Montenegro to Albania, Kosovo and to a lesser extent North Macedonia during and following various wars.
Novo Selo is a village in northwesternmost Bulgaria, part of Vidin Province. It lies on the right (south) bank of the Danube and is the administrative centre of a municipality with the same name.
Albanians in Serbia are a recognized national minority in Serbia. According to the 2022 census, the population of ethnic Albanians in Serbia is 61,687, constituting 0.9% of the total population. The vast majority of them live in the southern part of the country that borders Kosovo and North Macedonia, called the Preševo Valley. Their cultural center is located in Preševo.
Novo Selo is a village in the municipality of Kuršumlija, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 75 people.The etymology of the village comes from Slavic languages meaning new village, Novo Selo. The name may have been established after the expulsion of Albanians 1877-1878, this is when the Albanians were expelled from regions like Toplica, Niš and Kuršumlija by Serbian military forces. After the expulsion Serbian families were settled in the homes of the recently expelled Albanians and therefore the name Novo Selo may have been established to show they have made a new village.
Novo Selo is a village in the municipality of Prokuplje, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 362 people.The etymology of the village comes from Slavic languages meaning new village, Novo Selo. The name may have been established after the expulsion of Albanians 1877-1878, this is when the Albanians were expelled from regions like Toplica, Niš and Prokuplje by Serbian military forces. After the expulsion Serbian families were settled in the homes of the recently expelled Albanians and therefore the name Novo Selo may have been established to show they have made a new village.
Jasenica (Albanian:Jashanica) is a village in the municipality of Žitorađa, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 989 people.
Novo Selo is a village in the municipality of Lebane, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 207 people.The etymology of the village comes from Slavic languages meaning new village, Novo Selo. The name may have been established after the expulsion of Albanians 1877-1878, this is when the Albanians were expelled from regions like Toplica, Niš and Jablanica by Serbian military forces. After the expulsion Serbian families were settled in the homes of the recently expelled Albanians and therefore the name Novo Selo may have been established to show they have made a new village.
Igrište is a village in the municipality of Leskovac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 292 people.
Palojce is a village in the municipality of Leskovac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 484 people.
Gornje Novo Selo is a village in the municipality of Bujanovac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the town had a population of 437. Of these, 436 (99,77 %) were ethnic Albanians, and 1 (0,22 %) other.
Novo Selo is a village in the municipality of Surdulica, Serbia. According to the 2002 census the village has a population of 211 people.The etymology of the village comes from Slavic languages meaning new village, Novo Selo.
Novo Selo is a village in the municipality of Trgovište, in southeastern Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 145 people.The etymology of the village comes from Slavic languages meaning new village, Novo Selo.
The Serbian–Ottoman Wars, also known as the Serbian–Turkish Wars or Serbian Wars for Independence, were two consequent wars, fought between the Principality of Serbia and the Ottoman Empire. In conjunction with the Principality of Montenegro, Serbia declared war on the Ottoman Empire on 30 June 1876. By the intervention of major European powers, ceasefire was concluded in autumn, and the Constantinople Conference was organized. Peace was signed on 28 February 1877 on the basis of status quo ante bellum. After a brief period of formal peace, Serbia declared war on the Ottoman Empire on 11 December 1877. Renewed hostilities lasted until February 1878.
During the decline and dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Muslim inhabitants living in territories previously under Ottoman control, often found themselves as a persecuted minority after borders were re-drawn. These populations were subject to genocide, expropriation, massacres, religious persecution, mass rape, and ethnic cleansing.
The expulsion of the Albanians, 1877–1878 refers to events of forced migration of Albanian populations from areas that became incorporated into the Principality of Serbia and Principality of Montenegro in 1878 after their initial expulsion from 1830–1876. These wars, alongside the larger Russo-Ottoman War (1877–78) ended in defeat and substantial territorial losses for the Ottoman Empire which was formalised at the Congress of Berlin. This expulsion was part of the wider persecution of Muslims in the Balkans during the geopolitical and territorial decline of the Ottoman Empire.
Novo Selo is a village in the municipality of Kičevo, North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former municipality of Oslomej. The etymology of the village comes from Slavic languages meaning new village, Novo Selo.
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