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Serbia — Србија — Srbija Panoramic view of Belgrade and the confluence of the Sava River and the Danube Flag of Serbia Coat of Arms of Serbia Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain. 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, establishing several regional states in the early Middle Ages 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 for the first time since 1918. 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. Serbia is an upper-middle income economy, ranked "very high" in the Human Development Index domain. It is a unitary parliamentary constitutional republic, member of the UN, CoE, OSCE, PfP, BSEC, CEFTA, and is acceding to the WTO. Since 2014, the country has been negotiating its EU accession, with the possibility of joining the European Union by 2030. Serbia formally adheres to the policy of military neutrality. The country provides universal health care and free primary and secondary education to its citizens. (Full article...) Selected article - A map depicting the initial Austro-Hungarian invasion of Serbia, August 1914. The Battle of Cer was a military campaign fought between Austria-Hungary and Serbia in August 1914, starting three weeks into the Serbian Campaign of 1914, the initial military action of the First World War. It took place around Cer Mountain and several surrounding villages, as well as the town of Šabac. The Battle of Cer is known as the first Allied victory over the Central Powers in the First World War. The battle, part of the first Austro-Hungarian invasion of Serbia, began on the night of 15 August when elements of the Serbian 1st Combined Division encountered Austro-Hungarian outposts that had been established on the slopes of Cer Mountain earlier in the invasion. The clashes that followed escalated into a battle for control over several towns and villages near the mountain, especially Šabac. On 19 August, the morale of the Austro-Hungarians collapsed and thousands of soldiers retreated into Austria-Hungary with many of them drowning in the Drina River as they fled in panic. On 24 August the Serbs re-entered Šabac, marking the end of the battle. (Full article...) List of selected articles Belgrade Subotica Novi Sad Česnica Niš Trajan's Bridge Kragujevac Forest of Bojcin Leskovac Kragujevac massacre Operation Retribution (1941) Migration of the Serbs (painting) The Conquest of Belgrade Golubac Fortress Order of Karađorđe's Star Serbian State Guard Church of the Holy Mother of God, Donja Kamenica Decorating of the Bride Commissioner Government Did you know... ... 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 as a result of David Albala's lobbying, Serbia became the first country to endorse the Balfour Declaration? ... that Serbian landowner Marija Trandafil spent a single day hungry, but she remembered the experience and became a major philanthropist in Novi Sad? ... that Chief of the General Staff Zdravko Ponoš began military cooperation between Serbia and Ohio? ... that the name of Serbian Roma female rap group Pretty Loud was inspired by the popular notion that Roma women are not typically very loud? ... that the series of protests that led to the 2021 North Kosovo crisis was caused by a ban on Serbian license plates from the Kosovan Government? Web resources Tourism National Tourism Organisation of Serbia Government Government of Serbia National Assembly of Serbia The EU integration Office People's Office of the President National Bank of Serbia Republic of Serbia Statistical Office Business Doing Business in Serbia Serbian Chamber of Commerce Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency Energy Serbia Energy Business Other Project Rastko Serbian Heraldry Society Serbian Genealogy Society RTS - Radio Television of Serbia WikiProjects Parent projects WikiProject Countries • WikiProject Europe Main project Sister projects WikiProject Belgrade • WikiProject Cultural Heritage of Serbia What are WikiProjects? 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 See more... 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Selected biography - Vesna Vulović (Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Вуловић, pronounced [ʋêsna ʋûːloʋitɕ]; 3 January 1950 – 23 December 2016) was a Serbian flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute: 10.16 kilometres (6.31 miles) or 33,330 feet. She was the sole survivor after an explosion tore through the baggage compartment of JAT Flight 367 on 26 January 1972, causing it to crash near Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia (now part of the Czech Republic). Air safety investigators attributed the explosion to a briefcase bomb. The Yugoslav authorities suspected that émigré Croatian nationalists were to blame, but no one was ever arrested. Following the bombing, Vulović spent days in a coma and was hospitalized for several months. She suffered a fractured skull, three broken vertebrae, broken legs, broken ribs, and a fractured pelvis. These injuries resulted in her being temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. Vulović made an almost complete recovery but continued to walk with a limp. She had little to no memory of the incident and had no qualms about flying in the aftermath of the crash. Despite her willingness to resume work as a flight attendant, Jat Airways (JAT) gave her a desk job negotiating freight contracts, feeling her presence on flights would attract too much publicity. Vulović became a celebrity in Yugoslavia and was deemed a national hero. (Full article...) List of selected biographies Nikola Tesla Vuk Karadžić Novak Djokovic Mihajlo Pupin Jovan Vladimir Dimitrije Ljotić Nikola Žigić Miodrag Tomić Višeslav of Serbia Serbian people Politicians Category:Serbian politicians Zoran Đinđić Vojislav Koštunica Tomislav Nikolić Boris Tadić Mirko Cvetković Ivica Dačić Vuk Drašković Čedomir Jovanović Mlađan Dinkić Nenad Čanak Veroljub Stevanović Saints Category:Serbian saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church Saint Danilo II Saint Jovan Vladimir Saint Hieromartyr Lazar Saint Justin Popović Saint Nikolai Velimirović Saint Peter of Cetinje Saint Sava Saint Simeon Saint Stephen of Piperi Saint Vasilije Saint Georgije Scientists & Inventors Category:Serbian scientists Nikola Tesla Stevo Todorčević Milutin Milanković Mileva Marić Mihajlo Pupin Josif Pančić Jovan Cvijić Vuk Stefanović Karadžić Pavle Savić Athletes Category:Serbian sportspeople Dragan Džajić Dragan Stojković Dejan Stanković Nemanja Vidić Branislav Ivanović Nemanja Matić Borislav Stanković Radivoj Korać Vlade Divac Aleksandar Đorđević Predrag Stojaković Dejan Bodiroga Novak Djokovic Jelena Janković Ana Ivanovic Milorad Čavić Janko Tipsarević Artists Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac List of Serbian musicians Connected to Serbs or Serbia Daniel Nestor (born in Belgrade) 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) Sir John Tavener (composed: The Epistile of Love and The Veil of the Temple on Serbian Medieval Poetry) Constantine the Great (born in Niš) More Famous Serbs ... Serbian Cities Largest cities of Serbia (2011 census) Belgrade - 1,731,425 Novi Sad - 335,701 Niš - 257,867 Kragujevac - 177,468 Leskovac - 143,962 Subotica - 140,358 Kruševac - 127,429 Kraljevo - 124,554 Zrenjanin - 122,714 Pančevo - 122,252 Šabac - 115,347 Čačak - 114,809 Smederevo - 107,528 Sombor - 97,263 Valjevo - 95,631 Topics Related portals Associated Wikimedia The following Wikimedia Foundation sister projects provide more on this subject: Commons Free media repository Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals Wikidata Free knowledge base Wikinews Free-content news Wikiquote Collection of quotations Wikisource Free-content library Wikiversity Free learning tools Wikivoyage Free travel guide Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus Discover Wikipedia using portals List of all portals The arts portal Biography portal Current events portal Geography portal History portal Mathematics portal Science portal Society portal Technology portal Random portal WikiProject Portals