The University of Prishtina as well as the Universiteti i Prishtinës are at present two disjoint public universities located in Kosovo

Kosovo

Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...

, sharing the same history up to a point of bifurcation, which took place in 1999.

The university was opened as one university in Socialist Republic of Serbia

Socialist Republic of Serbia

Socialist Republic of Serbia was a socialist state that was a constituent country of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It is a predecessor of modern day Serbia, which served as the biggest republic in the Yugoslav federation and held the largest population of all the Yugoslav...

, Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

, in the city of Pristina

Pristina

Pristina, also spelled Prishtina and Priština is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous municipality and district....

, for the academic year 1969/1970 and functioned as the University of Priština until 1999.