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With the defeat of Serbian and other Christian armies by the Ottomans at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro all fell under Ottoman rule for some 500 years. In Albania in particular, the following centuries saw a widespread conversion to Islam. Meanwhile Venice annexed most of the southern Adriatic coast, including the Albanian and Montenegrin coasts – a hold it would maintain until Napoleon Bonaparte extinguished the Venetian Republic in 1797.

Wooden minaret in snowfall, Plav (Stage 8)

Early 20th century

Serbia and Montenegro, together with Greece and Bulgaria, successfully attacked and defeated the Ottomans during the First Balkan War in 1912, leading to the Ottomans ceding most of their territories in the Balkans. Serbia regained Kosovo, Albania declared its independence. However at the end of the First World War, Montenegro became the only Allied country to lose its independence, becoming instead a part of Serbia when the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was proclaimed in 1918.