Serbia — Србија — Srbija
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Serbia 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. 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 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 and provides universal health care and free primary and secondary education to its citizens. 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 . (Full article...
19 December 2024 – Aleksandar Šapić , the mayor of Belgrade , Serbia , announces the city will make all public transit free on January 1, 2025. (DW) (Novinite) 12 December 2024 – Hundreds of protesters, led by university students, gather outside the Radio Television of Serbia headquarters in Belgrade , Serbia , to protest against the state-owned television broadcaster and President Aleksandar Vučić 's administration. At least 13 people are detained by Serbian police . (AP) (BalkanInsight ) (Euronews)
30 November 2024 – Ibar-Lepenac attack Police arrest eight people linked to an explosion on a canal near Zubin Potok , Mitrovica District , Kosovo , that supplies water to the country's two main power plants . The Kosovar government blames Serbia for the "terrorist" acts, which Serbia denies. (Al Jazeera) (Euronews) (Le Monde )
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
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Nikola Žigić Serbian Cyrillic : Никола Жигић , IPA: [nǐkola ʒǐːɡitɕ] footballer who played as a centre forward .
Žigić was born in Bačka Topola , in what was then SFR Yugoslavia . He began playing football as a youngster with AIK Bačka Topola , and scored 68 goals from 76 first-team matches over a three-year period in the third tier of Yugoslav football. Military service took him to Bar in 2001, where he was able to continue his goalscoring career with the local second-level club Mornar . A brief spell back in the third tier with Kolubara preceded his turning professional with First League side Red Star Belgrade in January 2003. He spent time on loan at third-tier Spartak Subotica before making his Red Star debut later that year. Despite suggestions that his height, of 2.02 m (6 ft 7+ 1 ⁄2 in), made him better suited to sports other than football, Žigić ended the season as First League top scorer, domestic player of the year, league champion and scorer of the winning goal in the cup final . He won a second league–cup double in 2005–06, a second player of the year award, and finished his three-year Red Star career with 70 goals from 109 appearances in all competitions. (Full article...
Belgrade Novi Sad - 335,701Niš - 257,867Kragujevac - 177,468Leskovac - 143,962Subotica - 140,358Kruševac - 127,429Kraljevo - 124,554Zrenjanin - 122,714Pančevo - 122,252Šabac - 115,347Čačak - 114,809Smederevo - 107,528Sombor - 97,263Valjevo - 95,631
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