University of Pristina (1969–1999) |University of Pristina|
|Universiteti i Prishtinës Универзитет у Приштини/Univerzitet u
Prištini Seal of University of Pristina |Location||Pristina,
Socialist Republic of Serbia,Socialist Autonomous Province of
Kosovo, SFR Yugoslavia| The University of Pristina was founded
in the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, Socialist
Republic of Serbia, Yugoslavia, in the city of Pristina, for the
academic year 1969–1970 and functioned until 1999. However,
owing to political upheaval, war, successive mutual expulsions
of faculty of one ethnicity or the other, and resultant
pervasive ethnic-based polarisation, there came to be two
disjoint institutions using the same name, albeit
idiosyncratically to reflect ethnic identity. Albanian-language
activity continues at the original location (Albanian:
Universiteti i Prishtinës), whilst the Serbian-named Univerzitet
u Prištini has relocated to Kosovska Mitrovica where it
maintains its place within the Serbian education system. The fir