The history of Kosovo is intertwined with the histories of its neighbouring regions. The name "Kosovo" is derived from the Serbian word "Kos" (which means black bird). Black birds were full on Kosovo Plain, where the Battle of Kosovo was fought between a coalition of Balkan states and the Ottoman Empire. Kosovo's modern history can be traced to the Ottoman Sanjak of Prizren, of which parts were organised into Kosovo Vilayet in 1877. In antiquity, Dardania covered the area, which formed part of the larger Roman province of Moesia in the 1st century AD. In the Middle Ages, the region became part of the Bulgarian Empire, the Byzantine Empire and the Serbian medieval states. It was then conquered by the Ottoman Empire, an exact 70 years after the Battle of Kosovo. In 1913 the Kosovo Vilayet wa