Capitaland largest city: Belgrade

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Republic of Serbia
Capital(and largest city) Belgrade Official
Language Serbian Government Parliamentary
Democracy
President Boris Tadic Prime Minister Mirko
Cvetkovic Area 88,361 sq km (slightly smaller
than South Carolina) Border Countries Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo
(under protection of UN), Macedonia, Montenegro,
Romania Population 7,498,01 GDP (Per Capita)
5,200(USD) Currency Serbian Dinar
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Quick Comparison
A parliamentary system, also known as
parliamentarianism, is a system of government in
which the executive is dependent on the direct or
indirect support of the legislature (often termed
the parliament), often expressed through a vote
of confidence. A federal republic is a
federation of states with a republican form of
government. A federation is the central
government. The states in a federation also
maintain all political sovereignty that they do
not yield to the federation.
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Flag of Serbia
The Pan-Slavic colors, red, blue and white, are
colors used on the flag. An old folk song
describes the colors Red for the blood that was
shed in Kosovo, Blue for heavenly freedom which
is Serbias right, White is for mothers pure
milk that gives life One flag with three colors
united, that is Serbia.
The white two-headed eagle, which represents dual
power and sovereignty (Serbian and Byzantine) is
taken from a royal coat of arms.
Although Serbia is now a republic, the coat of
arms features the crown of the former Serbian
monarchy in order to signify royal heritage.
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Serbian History Key Events
5th - 18th centuries Serbia is a monarchy, but
is gradually absorbed by the Ottoman Empire
1817 Serbia becomes autonomous
principality 1878 Serbian independence
recognized by international treaties 1918
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formed
after World War I. Later renamed Kingdom of
Yugoslavia
Prince Milos Obrenovic (1788 - 1862), leader of
the second Serbian uprising against the Turks,
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Cross of Merit of the Fire Service of the Kingdom
of Yugoslavia  
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Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia was
proclaimed in 1945 and comprised Serbia,
Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina
and Macedonia. Under Yugoslavia's authoritarian
communist leader, Josip Tito, the lid was kept on
ethnic tensions. In the 1990s the federation
began to fall apart under the rule of Serbian
nationalist leader Slobodan Milosevic. Montenegro
and Serbia both declared independence in 2006,
thereby ending the Yugoslav state.
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Flag of the Socialist Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia
500000000000 Dinara Socialist Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia
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The Milosevic Era
1987 Slobodan Milosevic rose to power on a wave
of Serb national sentiment over Kosovo. 1990
The advent of multiparty politics in Yugoslavia
consolidated Slobodan Milosevic's power as
Serbian president. 1991 Slovenia and then
Croatia declared independence and conflict began.
The Yugoslav People's Army and Serbian
separatists take nearly a third of Croatia's
territory. Many casualties are suffered on each
side. The UN implements Economic Sanctions
against Serbia.
1992 Bosnia declared independence and violence
erupted. Milosevic vowed to defend Serbs from
what he called "Croatian genocide" and "Islamic
fundamentalism". More than three years of war
followed - the bloodiest in Europe since World
War II.
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The Milosevic Era
1995 Croatia took back most of its territory
earlier captured by the Serbs. The result was a
mass exodus of about 200,000 Serbs into Serbia,
further straining the already over-stretched
economy. Croatia's victory was followed by a
successful offensive against Bosnian Serbs in
Bosnia, and three weeks of NATO bombing. Together
these forced Milosevic to the bargaining table to
sign the Dayton peace agreement to end the war in
Bosnia.
1996 Milosevic rode out massive waves of
protests against his government concerning
election fraud.
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The Milosevic Era

• 1999 Forces under Milosevic attempted to
  suppress the ethnic Albanian majority's
  independence campaign in Kosovo. NATO bombings
  left the country's infrastructure in ruins, and
  its economy was crippled by new sanctions.
  Milosevic withdrew his troops from Kosovo.

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Fall of Milosevic

• Miloevic resigned the Yugoslav presidency amid
  demonstrations, following a disputed 2000
  presidential election.
• He was arrested by Yugoslav federal authorities
  on suspicion of corruption, abuse of power, and
  embezzlement.
• The Hague war crimes tribunal charged Miloevic
  with crimes against humanity, violating the laws
  or customs of war, grave breaches of the Geneva
  Conventions and genocide for his role during the
  wars in Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo.

Miloevic conducted his own defense, but the
trial ended without a verdict because he died of
a heart attack during the proceedings.
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Milosevic was a horrible man. He left this
country poor and isolated. We don't want to go
back to those days.
He was a great man - today, I feel sad, very
sad.
ZelkoAnti-Milosevic protester
Kosta BulatovicSerb refugee from Kosovo
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Year 2000 PresentExtraordinary Change
Elections on September 24th 2000 along with
massive protests on October 5th to defend the
victory of Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS)
ended Slobodan Milosevics bloody and corrupt
rule.
The Serbian parliamentary elections held on
December 23, 2000 resulted in an overwhelming
victory by the DOS coalition. Vojislav Kostunica
was installed as President of Yugoslavia
Vojislav Kostunica
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Year 2000 PresentExtraordinary Change

• In 2001, Zoran Djindjic became prime minister and
  quickly pushed through a number of painful
  economic and political reforms
• Djindjic made many enemies for his pro-Western
  stance, reformist economic policies, arresting
  Slobodan Milosevic and relinquishing him to the
  International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
  Yugoslavia (ICTY), and for clamping down on
  organized crime.
• Djindjic was assassinated on Wednesday, March 12,
  2003 in Belgrade.
• Djindjic's death came at an exceptionally
  difficult time for the Balkans region which was
  beginning to shed its reputation for political
  violence and instability.

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European Union
In 2007 Serbia signed an agreement with the EU
and became a potential candidate for membership.
Flag of EU
The EU set conditions for Serbias membership.
These include Serbia's full cooperation with the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia, solving the ethnic tension in the
region of Kosovo, and dealing with poverty in the
south as well as with corruption.
Belgrade
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Extradition of War Criminals
In 2008, Serbia extradited former military
leaders accused by the United Nations War Crime
Tribunal at the Hague.
The June 2008 extradition of Radovan Karadzic was
met with mixed feelings by the Serbians. Some
protested, calling Karadzic a hero. Others saw it
as a sign of the country moving away from past
conflicts and towards a better future.
Karadzic is accused by the U.N. court of
masterminding the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Muslim
men and boys in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica.
He is also charged with spearheading the
three-year siege of Sarajevo, which left 10,000
people dead.
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SerbiaAdditional Primary Documents and Images
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EXIT Festival

• Serbias homegrown Exit festival started out in
  2000 with student protests directly before the
  first democratic election in Serbia. It was meant
  to symbolize an Exit or departure from the
  tragic final decades of the 20th century. Ever
  year since then the festival has taken place on
  the cliffs of the mighty Petrovaradin Fortress in
  the city of Novi sad.

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• Last year Exit Festival won 1st place in the the
  UK Festival Awards for the most outstanding
  gathering on the continent.

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Exit Festival is one of the worlds most popular
music festivals.

• The flow of amazing energy and hundreds of
  thousands of people singing and dancing make Exit
  an incredible place during the hot month of
  August. Many people from around the world choose
  Exit, over other music festival in nearby
  countries.

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http//www.youtube.com/watch?vQ3dE8ogdmlw
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http//www.youtube.com/watch?vn4XBmKicsfw
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Battle on Kosovo, by Adam Stefanovic, oil, 1870
Battle of Kosovo, by Adam Stefanovic, oil, 1870
The June 15, 1389 battle fought at Kosovo Polje
(Field of the Blackbirds), Serbia, between the
armies of the Serbian prince Lazar and the
Turkish forces of the Ottoman sultan Murad I .The
battle ended in a Turkish victory, the collapse
of Serbia, and the complete encirclement of the
crumbling Byzantine Empire by Turkish armies.
-Brittanica
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This 1895 painting by P. Jovanovic, The Moving of
the Serbs, portrays the Serbian Orthodox
Patriarch Arsenije III Carnojevic leading some
36,000 families from his seat in Pec, Kosovo and
Southern Serbia to what is now Vojvodina and
further into Hungary in 1690, after Serbian
revolts against the Ottomans failed.
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Description Josip Tito and Jimmy Carter visit
in the Oval Office Source Carter White House
Photographs Collection Date 03/07/1978
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During the NATO bombing of Belgrade in 1999
even the targets in the very center of the city
were hit, which can be best seen on this map.
During almost three months of bombing, only a
few days and nights passed without air-raid
alarm. The building of the Radio-Television of
Serbia in Aberdareva Street, in the very city
center was bombed. Sixteen people were killed in
this attack and many others suffered light and
heavy injuries. Many power plants, water
supplies, bridges and civilian buildings were
damaged including embassy of China.
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Decorated Easter Eggs
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Madonna in Elle Magazine (Serbian Edition,
February 2006)