The region was the centre of the Serbian Empire until the mid-14th century, and Serbs regard Kosovo as the birthplace of their nation.
Light shone in from the side, between the two, was guided around each tiny lens, creating a small cloaked region in the centre of each one.
The region remains the centre of resistance to the government.
The governor of the region at the centre of Japan's nuclear crisis has criticised official handling of the evacuation of the area around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
It appears many are moving into the Chao Phraya river basin north of Bangkok, the country's main farming region and its chief centre of population.
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Work began last year on an eight-year scheme to replace 200-year-old buildings and establish the hospital as the major trauma centre for the region.
The CentreMK, owners of the building, believe the development is the only way to ensure Milton Keynes's place as an attractive retail centre for the region.
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Rajoy received a boost in his home region of Galicia where his centre-right party won a majority of the parliamentary seats against two nationalist groups and a socialist party.
Hook, whose favoured position is at fly-half, has been playing regularly at centre for his region and is expected to partner Lions man-of-the-series Jamie Roberts in Wales' midfield if Byrne's appeal is successful.
The 17-stone powerhouse, normally a full-back or wing, has been training in the centre position for his region, with the new season two weeks away.
"This investment at Hull, Immingham and Goole looks set to secure the Humber region's position as a centre of excellence for the development of the low carbon energy future".
In the 1980s, Bill Clinton, then governor of Arkansas, attempted to turn Helena into a bright tourist attraction by creating the Delta Cultural Centre to promote the region's rich blues tradition.
But once again, the divisions among the region's left-of-centre governments were on display.
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Hook struggled last season as the 24-year-old was played at fly-half and both inside and outside centre by the Liberty Stadium region.
The region had been the soot-coated centre of Germany's coal and steel industries, but mining is being wound down and steel can be forged with many fewer workers.
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No doubt he would have pined less during the late 20th Century, when many parts of the region became something of a hardscrabble industrial centre -- but as local manufacturing faded in the 1970s, rural charm re-emerged.
The researchers saw the loop when looking at the Arches Cluster, a star-forming region close to the Milky Way's centre.
But if this were to change, the region could once again find itself at the centre of a new Great Game.
In Soviet times the Primorye region was an important military outpost, a centre of the fishing industry and the site of many Stalin-era labour camps (many prisoners settled in the region after their release).
Unison's figures are based information from the Office for National Statistics on the number of Job Seekers' Allowance claimants per unfilled job centre vacancy in each of the region's council and unitary authority areas.
In Cutervo, the centre of a big potato-growing region in the northern highlands, farmers have yet to find a way to turn potatoes into prosperity.
That leaves the battle for Florida heavily contested in a handful of counties in the middle of the state: a region often referred to as the I-4 corridor after Interstate-4, which runs from the Tampa Bay region in the west through Orlando in the inland centre to Daytona Beach on the east coast.
Accompanied by Mr Tadic, Mr Erdogan visited Sandzak, Serbia's majority Bosniak south-western region, where the two men opened a Turkish cultural centre.
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The Organization also plans to strengthen institutional and technical capacities in the region with the support of the Regional Groundwater Training and Research Centre in Kenya, which operates under the auspices of UNESCO.
It is no longer a manufacturing centre in competition with low-wage countries in the region.
Elections in the Basque region of Spain resulted in gains for the country's ruling centre-right party and for radical Basque nationalists.
Benetton, whose headquarters and design centre are located amid a clothing cluster in the Veneto region, has long outsourced most of its manufacturing.
During a fairly frenetic trip to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week I spent a couple of hours at the Heal Africa centre in Goma, one of several institutions in the region where victims of sexual violence are treated.
It has also increased its lead as the number one town in the region for 'pound shops', with eight operating in the town centre, two more than its nearest rival Sunderland.
The Jacmel region, for example, has the potential to become a cultural and tourist centre.
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