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Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country in Southeast and Central Europe. Located in the Balkans, it borders Hungary to the north, Romania to the northeast, Bulgaria to the southeast, North Macedonia to the south, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the west, and Montenegro to the southwest. Serbia claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia has about 6.6 million inhabitants, excluding Kosovo. Its capital Belgrade is also the largest city.

Continuously inhabited since the Paleolithic Age, the territory of modern-day Serbia faced Slavic migrations in the 6th century. Several regional states were founded in the early Middle Ages and were at times recognised as tributaries to the Byzantine, Frankish and Hungarian kingdoms. The Serbian Kingdom obtained recognition by the Holy See and Constantinople in 1217, reaching its territorial apex in 1346 as the Serbian Empire. By the mid-16th century, the Ottomans annexed the entirety of modern-day Serbia; their rule was at times interrupted by the Habsburg Empire, which began expanding towards Central Serbia from the end of the 17th century while maintaining a foothold in Vojvodina. In the early 19th century, the Serbian Revolution established the nation-state as the region's first constitutional monarchy, which subsequently expanded its territory.

In 1918, in the aftermath of World War I, the Kingdom of Serbia united with the former Habsburg crownland of Vojvodina; later in the same year it joined with other South Slavic nations in the foundation of Yugoslavia, which existed in various political formations until the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. During the breakup of Yugoslavia, Serbia formed a union with Montenegro, which was peacefully dissolved in 2006, restoring Serbia's independence as a sovereign state. In 2008, representatives of the Assembly of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence, with mixed responses from the international community while Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. (Full article...)

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Bomb-damaged buildings in Belgrade in April 1941

The German bombing of Belgrade, codenamed Operation Retribution (German: Unternehmen Strafgericht) or Operation Punishment, was the April 1941 German bombing of Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, in retaliation for the coup d'état that overthrew the government that had signed the Tripartite Pact. The bombing occurred in the first days of the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia during World War II. The Royal Yugoslav Army Air Force (VVKJ) had only 77 modern fighter aircraft available to defend Belgrade against the hundreds of German fighters and bombers that struck in the first wave early on 6 April. Three days prior, VVKJ Major Vladimir Kren had defected to the Germans, disclosing the locations of multiple military assets and divulging the VVKJ's codes.

Three more waves of bombers attacked Belgrade on 6 April, and more attacks followed in subsequent days. The attacks resulted in the paralysis of Yugoslav civilian and military command and control, the widespread destruction of Belgrade's infrastructure, and many civilian casualties. The ground invasion had begun a few hours earlier, and air attacks were also made on VVKJ airfields and other strategic targets across Yugoslavia. Among the non-military targets struck during the bombing were the National Library of Serbia, which burned to the ground with the loss of hundreds of thousands of books and manuscripts, and the Belgrade Zoo. (Full article...)

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Belgrade Subotica Novi Sad Česnica Niš Trajan's Bridge Kragujevac Forest of Bojcin Leskovac Kragujevac massacre Migration of the Serbs (painting) The Conquest of Belgrade Golubac Fortress Battle of Cer Order of Karađorđe's Star Serbian State Guard Church of the Holy Mother of God, Donja Kamenica Decorating of the Bride Commissioner Government

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... that Radomir Lazović and other activists protested against the redevelopment of the Belgrade Waterfront by bringing a giant rubber duck to the House of the National Assembly?
... that the prime minister of Serbia signed the 1918 Geneva Declaration after intervention from the President of France?
... that the 1989 Serbian general election was the last one-party election in Serbia?
... that the broadcast of the 8th Session of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia was manipulated to remove or delay speeches critical of Slobodan Milošević?
... that the 1990 Serbian general election returned only two women to the National Assembly of Serbia?
... that Džuvljarke written by Vera Kurtić includes interviews with members of the LGBT community in Serbia and concludes that Romani lesbian women are often "invisible"?

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WikiProject Countries • WikiProject Europe

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WikiProject Belgrade • WikiProject Cultural Heritage of Serbia

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Demographics

Population statistics of Serbia (2011 census)

Serbia 7,186,862
- Belgrade region 1,659,440
- Vojvodina region 1,931,809
- Šumadija and West Serbia region 2,031,697
- South and East Serbia region 1,563,916
- Kosovo and Metohija n/a

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Boïsesthlabos (Greek: Βοϊσέσθλαβος), transliterated as Višeslav (Serbian Cyrillic: Вишеслав) or Vojislav (Serbian Cyrillic: Војислав), is the first Serbian ruler known by name, who ruled in c. 780. Serbia was a Slavic principality, subject to the Byzantine Empire, located in the western Balkans, bordering with Bulgaria in the east. Mentioned in the De Administrando Imperio (DAI) from the mid-10th century, Višeslav was a progenitor of the Serbian ruling family, known in historiography as the Vlastimirović dynasty. He was descended from the unnamed "Serbian prince" who led his people to the Dalmatia province and established hereditary rule under Byzantine suzerainty. The names of Višeslav's predecessors were not included in the DAI. The dynasty ruled the Principality of Serbia from the early 8th century until around 960. (Full article...)

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Nikola Tesla Vuk Karadžić Vesna Vulović Novak Djokovic Mihajlo Pupin Jovan Vladimir Dimitrije Ljotić Nikola Žigić Miodrag Tomić

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Serbian people

Connected to Serbs or Serbia

Josip Broz Tito (ruled Serbia as part of Yugoslavia for 35 years)
Albert Einstein (married to fellow scientist Mileva Marić)
Tommy Lapid (born in Novi Sad)
Thomas Nagel (born in Belgrade)
Monica Seles (born in Novi Sad)
Daniel Nestor (born in Belgrade)
Bastian Schweinsteiger (married to Ana Ivanović)
Sir John Tavener (composed: The Epistile of Love and The Veil of the Temple on Serbian Medieval Poetry)
Constantine the Great (born in Niš)