Можда је ово благо скретање са теме, ал' не бих да отварам нову.
Има ли поузданих података о томе како се кретало становништво Косова и Метохије кроз историју? Податке које сам нашао махом су са Википедије.
Ово је са наше:
Неки подаци и са Википедије на енглеском:
16th century
1520–1535
Vushtrri: 19,614 households
Christians
700 Muslim households (3.5%)
Prizren
Christians
359 Muslim households (2%)
1591.
Ottoman defter from 1591:
Prizren – Christian majority, significant Muslim minority
Gora – No nationalities are recorded. only religious affiliations of dwellers.
Opolje – Christian majority, significant Muslim minority
17th–18th centuries
In 17th century reports indicate western Kosovo and parts of central Kosovo was Albanian speaking while the Eastern region was Slavic speaking.
In the 17th century the towns of Peja, Prizren, Prishtina were majority Muslim.
German scholar Gustav Weigand gave the following statistical data about the population of Kosovo based on the pre-war situation in Kosovo in 1912:
Pristina District: 67% Albanians, 27% Serbs
Prizren District: 63% Albanians, 36% Serbs
Vushtrri District: 90% Albanians, 10% Serbs
Ferizaj District: 70% Albanians, 30% Serbs
Gnjilane District: 75% Albanians, 23% Serbs
Mitrovica District: 60% Serbs, 40% Albanians
Kaçanik District: almost exclusively Albanian
Gjakova & Metohija District: almost exclusively Albanian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Kosovo#Early_20th_century