Ethnic cleansing in Kosovo

"Kosovo genocide" redirects here. For the war in Kosovo at the end of the 20th century, see Kosovo War.

Ethnic cleansing in Kosovo may refer to numerous different events, listed in reverse chronological order:

• War crimes in the Kosovo War, the ethnic cleansing campaigns that took place in the Kosovo war in the 20th century
• Kosovo during World War II, the deportation and killings of mostly Serbs and Montenegrins in Kosovo during WWII
• Yugoslav colonization of Kosovo, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia's program to alter the ethnic composition of Kosovo through killings and forced displacement of Kosovo Albanians in the interwar period
• Massacres of Albanians in World War I, the killings and forced displacements of Albanian and Kosovo Albanian civilians by Serbia and Montenegro, Greek, and Bulgarian forces
• Massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars, the massacres and expulsions of Albanians by the Kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro from 1912 to 1913
• Violence against Serbs during the late Ottoman era, violence and killings against Serbs, often in Kosovo, in the Ottoman Empire.