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THE ORIGIN AND MOTIVES OF SERBIAN MYTHS ON KOSOVA From the ancient times to the present day, different circles have made efforts to place various theories and attitudes on Kosova, with which they intend to justify their claims to Albanians’ regions. Since last century, this area has become an arena for definition of its titular, property and territory. Much noise has been made by Serbian science and politics, which raises Kosova to the level of a Serbian Piedmont. Slavic quasi-science, stimulated by a grasping policy between the two World Wars and in the period of monism, has made use of any form and method, only to prove that the right to Kosova belongs solely to the Serbs and Montenegrins, as "their cradle". In Serbian historiography continuous efforts have been made to assign the myths on Kosova to an earlier origin, from the middle Ages. Then, as regards the formation of myths and myth mania on Albanians’ land occupied by Serbia, it cannot be spoken about, since the historical time factor did not allow it. At that time, the Serbs had not formed their history yet.1 "To the peoples that do not know their genesis and their far past belong the Serbs as well. As part of a large Slavonic wholeness, on the historic scene, in