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Mirčeta Vemić
Most of the maps confirm that the main division bor- der, i.e. ethnographic boundary between Serbian and al- banian settlements, until the mid-19th century, was on the rivers Valbona (Crnica), Drim (Drin) and Crni Drim (Black Drin), which were regarded as both geographical border of albania and (Old) Serbia, as well as a language line di- viding the albanians of northern albania from the Me- tohija Serbs. in this sense, with the creation of albania 1912, a historic compromise regarding the demarcation of the state borders between Serbia and albania went from the mentioned rivers to the highest peaks of the moun- tain range.
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Two proposals on demarcation between the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and Albania at the Paris conference in 1920 (Slukan-altić, 2006)