I'd be happy to visit Kosovo but, unlike Paris, I have no idea what there might be to see and enjoy there as a tourist. Can you give us a short list of historical, cultural or touristic attractions that would make us interested to visit? Novo Brdo sounds like my kind of place, but what else? Prstina certainly doesn't sound like the Paris of the Balkans to me, but perhaps I'm wrong.
I have visited Serbia, Bosnia and Bulgaria. Southern Serbia (close to Kosovo) wasn't somewhere I'd bust a gut to revisit.
Cannot blame you
Well, okay let us just consider one city among those others mentioned in that link I gave you. Let us consider for instance Prizren:
Prizren guide by In Your Pocket. A full, free guide to Prizren, Kosovo, with hotels, restaurants, cafes, nightlife, sights, events.
The main site is the Prizren's fortress. It was build before 7th century with the intent to defend the Byzantine empire against the threat of Slavs up north. Later though with help of Greeks the king of Cartagena Heraclius became the emperor and let the Slavs in. They started trading Slavic protection for our lands.
Sometime later Slavs took on our Orthodox Christianity faith and used it as bridge to assimilate the population into Slavs. During that time (middle ages) you can find the oldest Byzantine church named "Friday Church" (also called "Lady Ljevis at the site above). Many of our other orthodox christian churches were burned or destroyed from the Ottomans.
Not mentioned in the site (and thus awaiting your visit to explore) is the "Watch tower" that the Orthodox Slavs used to maintain power against Albanian during the Byzantine Empire.
The inner strife left the Byzantine empire weak against the Ottoman Empire whom came during the 14-15th century. They called us "Slavs" also so we converted to Islam to prove that we are not. Plus the converted did not pay tax so that was also a major benefit.
There was some piece and comfort at that time. For one the Slavic middle age religion oppression that was used to assimilate us stopped. This was so to the point that the "Watch tower" mentioned earlier was no longer needed and transformed into something more useful such as a "Watch tower" (i.e., with a watch/clock that one would need to see the time).
During the Ottoman rule many Mosques were build. One are the Sinan Pasha mosque. There is also a Turkish Bath "Hamam" that is currently under re-construction.
When Russia started winning over the Ottoman Empire and nationalism was used as means to be independent from its rule we were put into a tight spot during the late 19th century. The Ottoman's were retreating to Turkiye but in the meanwhile they were neither letting us go independent nor defending us under their rule. In the meanwhile the Slavs turned Serbs as well as other parts of our neighbors were taking our lands with the pretext that we were now Turks.
So fighting against our neighbors would prove to the world that we are Turks fighting along the Ottoman Empire. Fighting against the Ottoman empire and win our freedom from its rule meant turning our backs against the approaching conquering neighbors. At this time the Prizren's League was kept and a decision was made to fight against anyone instead. Three days later the Congress of Berlin was kept where it was decided for the borders of current day Albania. We were not in it!
So there is plenty of history to see. Good people that want to talk with you. It is just a matter of braking the ice really.
In the Prizren's league there cultural sites. There is also an archeological museum at the "watch tower."
All this and much more for you to see!
