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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 - Artistic reconstruction (1907) Trajan's Bridge (Romanian: Podul lui Traian; Serbian: Трајанов мост, romanized: Trajanov most), also called Bridge of Apollodorus over the Danube, was a Roman segmental arch bridge, the first bridge to be built over the lower Danube and considered one of the greatest achievements in Roman architecture. Though it was only functional for 165 years, it is often considered to have been the longest arch bridge in both total span and length for more than 1,000 years. The bridge was completed in 105 AD and designed by Emperor Trajan's architect Apollodorus of Damascus before the Second Dacian War to allow Roman troops to cross the river. Fragmentary ruins of the bridge's piers can still be seen today. (Full article...) List of selected articles Belgrade Subotica Novi Sad Česnica Niš Kragujevac Forest of Bojcin Leskovac Kragujevac massacre Operation Retribution (1941) 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 Serbia news 23 May 2024 – The United Nations General Assembly votes 84–19, with 68 abstentions, to establish July 11 as an annual day of remembrance for the Srebrenica genocide, despite receiving opposition from Serbia and Bosnian Serbs. (Al Jazeera) Did you know... ... that Elena Mikhnenko was born in a prison in Warsaw where her mother had been detained for allegedly plotting an anti-Polish uprising? ... that as a result of David Albala's lobbying, Serbia became the first country to endorse the Balfour Declaration? ... that the 1989 Serbian general election was the last one-party election in Serbia? ... 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 Serbian actress Branka Veselinović, whose career started in 1938, still performs aged 102? ... 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"? 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 - Višeslav (Serbian Cyrillic: Вишеслав; Greek: Βοϊσέσθλαβος) 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...) List of selected biographies Nikola Tesla Vuk Karadžić Vesna Vulović Novak Djokovic Mihajlo Pupin Jovan Vladimir Dimitrije Ljotić Nikola Žigić Miodrag Tomić 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