y:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">The 500 years of Ottoman rule came to
an end in the
First Balkan War
of 1912-1913, when
Montenegro
took control of the city. In the late
1915, during
World War I,
Austria-Hungary
took the city. Peć was retaken in
October 1918. After World War I, the city became part of
Yugoslavia
(at first officially called the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes). Between 1931 and 1941 the city was part
of
Zeta Banovina. During the
World War II
Peć was occupied by
Albania. After the war, Peć again
became part of
Yugoslavia
as part of Kosovo and Metohija, an
autonomous province within the
People's
Republic of Serbia.
Relations between Serbs and Albanians,
who were the majority population, were often tense during the 20th century. They
came to a head in the
