Koshare ( Serbian: ''Кошаре/Košare'') (

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: ''Koshare'') is a village in the

District of Gjakova The District of Gjakova is one of the seven districts of Republic of Kosovo, with seat in the city of Gjakova. Municipalities The district of Gjakova has a total of 4 municipalities and 170 other smaller settlements. Settlements Gjakov ...

, Kosovo. It is located within the historical ethnographic region of the Gjakova Highlands.

History

Košare was the sight of the 1999

Battle of Košare The Battle of Košare ( sr, Битка на Кошарама, Bitka na Košarama; sq, Beteja e Kosharës) was fought during the Kosovo War between the Armed Forces of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, FR Yugoslav Forces and the Kosovo Liberatio ...

between the KLA supported by

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on one side and the

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of the

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...

History

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