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Camp Casablanca was a military base located in the city of Suva Reka,
Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...
. From 1999 to 2012 it has been home to many foreign
NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...
troops, including German forces, and it occasionally houses U.S. troops as well. Austrian and Swiss troops were also located here. The camp was originally established by the German Army to maintain a NATO peacekeeping presence after the
Kosovo War The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started 28 February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the wa ...
of 1999. The base was operational until 17 March 2012, when the premises were transferred to Suva Reka municipality for development.


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