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Amel Emric/Associated Press MASS GRAVE: A team of forensic experts inspected a site where human remains were found in a mass grave in the village of Ivan Polje, near Rogatica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tuesday.
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Bosnia Herzegovina has been playing most of its games at Bilino Polje, the home football stadium of NK Celik from the city of Zenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of two stadiums of national football team of Bosnia Herzegovina.
Archive 2009-05-01 Azmie aka switch image 2009
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Bosnia Herzegovina has been playing most of its games at Bilino Polje, the home football stadium of NK Celik from the city of Zenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of two stadiums of national football team of Bosnia Herzegovina.
Bosnia & Herzegovina 2009/10 Legea home kits. Azmie aka switch image 2009
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BackstoryKosovo? or Kosova to ethnic Albanians? comes from the word "blackbird" relating to Kosova Polje, "the field of blackbirds", the battlefield where Prince Lazar was defeated by the Ottoman army in 1389.
Kosovo holds its breath as international court prepares to rule on independence 2010
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Access by Serbs to Kosovo Polje will become a matter of risking life and limb.
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Access by Serbs to Kosovo Polje will become a matter of risking life and limb.
Archive 2008-02-17 2008
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At Kosovo Polje “the Field of the Blackbirds” in 1389 the Ottoman armies of Sultan Murad I overwhelmed an army of Christian forces—Bulgarians, Bosnians, Albanians, Poles, and Hungarians—under the Serbian Prince Lazar.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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On April 24, 1987, Slobodan Milosevic was summoned to help calm a riotous crowd of Serbs outside the town hall in Kosovo Polje.
Wisdom, Justice And Mercy Hal Duncan 2006
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The village of Kosovo Polje was the site of a crucial battle in 1389 during which advancing Ottomans toppled what was then a Serbian empire in the region.
The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006
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Though Muslims have far outnumbered Serbs in Kosovo for four centuries, Kosovo Polje remained at the center of Serb nationalist consciousness.
The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006
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