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Welcome to the limited recognition portal!
A portal dedicated to providing and organizing reliable information on entities with limited recognition
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According to the declarative theory, an entity's statehood is independent of its recognition by other states. By contrast, the constitutive theory defines a state as a person of international law only if it is recognised as such by other states that are already a member of the international community.
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Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a country in Southeast Europe with partial diplomatic recognition. Kosovo lies landlocked in the centre of the Balkans, bordered by Serbia to the north and east, North Macedonia to the southeast, Albania to the southwest, and Montenegro to the west. Most of central Kosovo sits on the plains of Metohija and the Kosovo field. The Accursed Mountains and Šar Mountains rise in the southwest and southeast, respectively. Kosovo's capital and largest city is Pristina.
The Dardani tribe emerged in Kosovo and established the Kingdom of Dardania in the 4th century BC. It was later annexed by the Roman Empire in the 1st century BC. The territory remained in the Byzantine Empire, facing Slavic migrations from the 6th-7th century AD. Control shifted between the Byzantines and the First Bulgarian Empire. In the 13th century, Kosovo became integral to the Serbian medieval state and the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Ottoman expansion in the Balkans in the late 14th and 15th century led to the decline and fall of the Serbian Empire; the Battle of Kosovo of 1389 is considered to be one of the defining moments, where a Serbian-led Christian coalition that also included Albanians, fought against the Ottoman Empire. Various dynasties, mainly the Branković, would govern Kosovo for a significant portion of the period following the battle. The Ottoman Empire fully conquered Kosovo after the Second Battle of Kosovo, ruling for nearly five centuries until 1912. Kosovo was the center of the Albanian Renaissance and experienced the Albanian revolts of 1910 and 1912. After the Balkan Wars, it was ceded to Serbia and Montenegro and became an Autonomous Province within Yugoslavia. Tensions between Kosovo's Albanian and Serb communities simmered through the 20th century and occasionally erupted into major violence, culminating in the Kosovo War of 1998 and 1999, which resulted in the withdrawal of the Yugoslav army and the establishment of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. (Full article...)Image 4Image 5Image 6Image 7Image 8Image 9
Somaliland, officially the Republic of Somaliland, is an unrecognised country in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden and bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, Ethiopia to the south and west, and Somalia to the east. Its claimed territory has an area of 176,120 square kilometres (68,000 sq mi), with approximately 6.2 million residents as of 2024. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The Government of Somaliland regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which, as the briefly independent State of Somaliland, united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic.
Since 1991, the territory has been governed by democratically elected governments that seek international recognition as the government of the Republic of Somaliland. The central government maintains informal ties with some foreign governments, who have sent delegations to Hargeisa; Somaliland hosts representative offices from several countries, including Ethiopia and Taiwan. However, Somaliland's self-proclaimed independence has not been officially recognised by any UN member state or international organisation. It is the largest unrecognised state in the world by de facto controlled land area. It is a member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, an advocacy group whose members consist of indigenous peoples, minorities and unrecognised or occupied territories. (Full article...)Image 10Distinguished content
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social welfare, direct taxationand tourism, would be transferred to the Palestinian interim government. Both parties agreed also on forming a committee that would establish cooperation and coordination dealing with specific economic sectors, including utilities, industry, trade and communication.Did you know?
- ... that the first clear use of the name Palestine (region pictured) was in the 5th century B.C. by Ancient Greek historian Herodotus?"
- ...that the Kingdom of Abkhazia was most prosperous from the years 850 to 950 CE?
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Commemoration of the 30th independence day in Tifariti, Liberated Territories, Western Sahara (more...)In the news
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- 22 March 2019 The United Nations hosts talks regarding Western Sahara with foreign ministers from Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania in Geneva, Switzerland. (AFP)
- 31 August 2018 * An explosion in Donetsk kills Alexander Zakharchenko, leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. (Featured on Wikipedia Main Page)
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Here are some tasks awaiting attention:- Assess : Identify more articles within the scope of the WikiProject by going through the following categories:
Start class Abkhazia articles (Total of 197)
Start class Taiwan articles (Total of 0)
Start class Kosovo articles (Total of Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ",".)
Start class Palestine articles (Total of 2,976)
Start class Somaliland articles (Total of 0)
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FA: Done A: Not done GA: Done B: Not done C: Not done Start: In-progress Stub: Not done
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Artsakh Start-class assessment not started
Kosovo Not done
Northern Cyprus Start-class assessment not started
Palestine Not done
Somaliland Start-class assessment not started
Transnistria Start-class assessment not started
Western Sahara Start-class assessment not started - Cleanup : History of Transnistria Comment: May need to be rewritten entirely
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The following high-importance states with limited recognition need more information regarding their histories to be found. Please help by expanding the content of their history subsections or drafting a standalone article, as they have no standalone articles for their histories or cultures.Historyof Northern Cyprus
Historyof South Ossetia
Culture of Somaliland
Cultureof South Ossetia
Culture of Transnistria: Portal: Utilize available templates to automatically display the most up-to-date summaries of featured articles.- Maintain
Project: Establish a visually appealing template that helps editors easily find articles most in need of immediate attention - Photo : Portal: Add a photo gallery to the portal to improve the overall quality.
- Update : WikiProject Ossetia is inactive. Please consider revamping this project, or taking other actions to help readers find reliable information about Ossetia.
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Northern Cyprus No high-quality articles directly relating to Northern Cyprus?
Somaliland No high-quality articles directly relating to Somaliland?
South Ossetia No high-quality articles directly relating to South Ossetia?
Transnistria No high-quality articles directly relating to Transnistria?
Western Sahara No high-quality articles directly relating to Western Sahara?
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