The rebel Croatian Serbs established a number of paramilitary militias under the leadership of Milan Martić, the police chief in Knin.

Almost immediately, returning Kosovo Albanians attacked Kosovo Serbs, causing some 200, 000-280, 000 Serbs and other non-Albanians to flee ( note: the current number of internally displaced persons is disputed, with estimates ranging from 65, 000 to 250, 000 ).

A small number of the population spoke Croatian ( around 1. 3 % in 1911 ), and the city also counted several other smaller ethnic communities: Czechs, Istro-Romanians, Serbs and Greeks, which mostly assimilated either to the Italian or Slovene-speaking community.

The number of Serbs in the diaspora is unknown but it is estimated to be up to 5. 5 million.

* There is a small number of Serbs in Slovakia, mostly located in the southern town of Komárno, where they have been living since the 17th century.

She incurred the wrath of a number of Serbs in the former Yugoslavia for her role in participating in the formulation of US policy during the Kosovo War and Bosnian war as well as the rest of the Balkans.

In 1909 he helped Hinko Hinković in Vienna in the defense during the fabricated trial against mostly prominent Serbs, members of the Croato-Serb Coalition and others, who were convicted to more than 150 years and a number of death penalties.

The number of refugees exceeded 800, 000 during the war, mostly ethnic Albanian but also 100, 000 ethnic Serbs from Kosovo.

From the 14th century onward an increasing number of Serbs began migrating to the north to the region today known as Vojvodina, which was under the rule of the Kingdom of Hungary in that time.

The vast majority of the population is Albanian, followed by Serbs, and a small number of minorities.

Ethnic tension flared repeatedly in the years after the war and a number of Serbs were killed by Albanian nationalists.

The town was seriously affected by the March 2004 unrest in Kosovo, which saw a number of Serb houses burned and more Serbs forced to flee ( the Serbian government claimed that 2, 000 people had been expelled, though this is inconsistent with the earlier reports of the number of Serbs in the town ).

Serbs started to settle in the town in larger number again after the First World War, when Senta became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( later renamed to Yugoslavia ) in 1918.

It is not certain whether Hungarians or Serbs were largest ethnic group in the city in this time, since 1910 census is considered partially inaccurate by most historians because this census did not recorded the population by ethnic origin or mother tongue, but by the " most frequently spoken language ", thus the census results overstated the number of Hungarian speakers, since this was official language at the time and many non-Hungarian native speakers stated that they most frequently speak Hungarian language in everyday communication.

The result is a set of Indo-European tribal names ( if not the endonym of the Indo-Europeans ): Germanic Suebi and Semnones, Suiones ; Celtic Senones ; Slavic Serbs and Sorbs ; Italic Sabelli, Sabini, etc., as well as a large number of kinship terms.

The estimated number of Serbs killed in Jasenovac ranges from 25, 000 to 700, 000.

The most reliable figures place the number of Serbs killed by the Ustaša between 330, 000 and 390, 000, with 45, 000 to 52, 000 Serbs murdered in Jasenovac.

According to the IOM data, in 2000 – 2004, Kosovo was consistently ranked fourth or fifth among the countries of Southeastern Europe by number of human trafficking victims, after Albania, Moldova, Romania and sometimes Bulgaria.

The KLA committed a number of atrocities during the Kosovo War.

During the Kosovo crisis of 1999, 600 Belgian paratroopers participated in Operation Allied Harbour, a NATO operation to protect and provide assistance to the huge number of ethnic Albanian refugees in Albania and Macedonia.

Later the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) legally found that Serbia " use violence and terror to force a significant number of Kosovo Albanians from their homes and across the borders, in order for the state authorities to maintain control over Kosovo.

From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Ischinger was Director of the Policy Planning Staff ; from 1995 to 1998, as Director General for Political Affairs ( Political Director ), Mr. Ischinger participated in a number of international negotiating processes, including the Bosnia Peace Talks at Dayton, OH, the negotiations concerning the NATO-Russia Founding Act, as well as the negotiations on EU and NATO enlargement and on the Kosovo crisis.

In 2007, Ischinger was the European Union Representative in the Troika negotiations on the future of Kosovo which led to the declaration of independence of Kosovo and to the recognition of Kosovo by most EU member countries, by the United States, and a number of other countries, in February, 2008.

Kosovo has been recognized by a substantial number of UN members, including the United States and most members of the European Union, but not by Israel.

Accompanied by a number of foreign journalists and members of the European Union's Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission ( KDOM ), they found a total of 40 bodies in and around the village.

Italy, itself a NATO member, was reluctant to agree to the NATO operations due to the tens of thousands of refugees that conflict would bring to Italy, and due to the large number of financial investments Italy holds in Kosovo.

The number of missing people from the municipality is among the highest in all of Kosovo, numbering over 300.

A number of architectural reserves, such as Shiroka Laka, Kovachevitsa, Momchilovtsi, Kosovo, are also located in the area.

Saakashvili's administration doubled the number of its troops in Iraq, making Georgia one of the biggest supporters of Coalition Forces, and keeping its troops in Kosovo and Afghanistan to " contribute to what it describes as global security ".

Mercer reported from a number of trouble spots, most notably Kosovo.

Though the number of people flowing in and out of our metropolitan areas each day has increased tremendously since World War 2,, total annual rail commutation dropped 124 million for 1947 to 1957.

The number dropped to 38 in 1968, but grew to 82 in 1969, the largest number in a single year in the history of civil aviation ; in January 1969 alone, eight airliners were hijacked to Cuba.

In 1966, the number of babies born in Japan dropped by over 25 % as parents tried to avoid the stigma of having a daughter born in the hinoeuma year.

Because of a wine glut ( wine lake ) in the generic production, the price squeeze induced by an increasingly strong international competition, and vine pull schemes, the number of growers has recently dropped from 14, 000 and the area under vine has also decreased significantly.

The number of sugar mills dropped and efficiency increased, with only companies and the most powerful plantation owners owning them.

It was the same fleet that had bombed Pearl Harbor, though a considerably larger number of bombs were dropped on Darwin than on Pearl Harbor.

This led to the addition of the number sign (#, sometimes called ' octothorpe ,' ' pound ' or ' diamond ' in this context-' hash ' or ' gate ' in the UK ) and asterisk or " star " (*) keys as well as a group of keys for menu selection: A, B, C and D. In the end, the lettered keys were dropped from most phones, and it was many years before these keys became widely used for vertical service codes such as * 67 in the United States of America and Canada to suppress caller ID.

Schaffner, assuming the note contained a lonely businessman's phone number, dropped it unopened into her purse.

For a number of years this volunteer led festival has concentrated mostly around film but, starting in the Year of Highland Culture-Highland 2007, its scope was widened, and it dropped the ' film ' from its title.

However, in the wake of the bad publicity and lawsuits, the number of users on Kazaa Lite has dropped dramatically.

Around 1760 the university reputation dropped as the number of students fell below 200, most of whom hailed from around the province.

It was less powerful than " Fat Man ", which was dropped on Nagasaki ( 21 – 23 kt ). However, the damage and the number of victims at Hiroshima were much higher, as Hiroshima was on flat terrain, while the hypocenter of Nagasaki lay in a small valley.

Membership in both the Bolshevik and Menshevik ranks diminished from 1907 to 1908 and the number of people taking part in strikes in 1907 was 26 percent of the figure during the year of the revolution in 1905, it dropped in 1908 to 6 percent of that figure, and in 1910 it was 2 percent of that figure.

Potok revealed that in 1996 there were approximately 858 domestic militias and other antigovernment groups but the number had dropped to 152 by 2004.

At the same time, the number of landline phones dropped by 828, 000 within the span of two months to a total of 284. 3 million.

Despite having completely dropped out of the public eye for five years after the gold-selling Test for Echo ( which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200 ) and the band being relegated almost solely to classic rock stations in the U. S., Vapor Trails reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart in its first week of release in 2002 with 108, 000 albums sold.

The total number of Rifle Corps started at 62 on 22 June 1941, dropped to six by 1 January 1942, but then increased to 34 by February 1943, and 161 by New Year's Day 1944.

For example, Iowa State University reports the number of hog farmers in Iowa dropped from 65, 000 in 1980 to 10, 000 in 2002, while the number of hogs per farm increased from 200 to 1, 400.

For example, the old style telephone exchanges required Make-before-break so that the connection didn't get dropped while dialing the number.

For a number of years both Tolka Row and The Riordans were produced by RTÉ, soon however the urban soap was dropped for the more popular rural soap opera The Riordans – which began in 1965.

Formal instruction was also very popular ; however, the number of people educated using a planned curriculum at home dropped as public education grew in popularity during the 1900s.

Egg whites were dropped in a glass of water, and the shapes foretold the number of future children.