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15 unusual facts about Serbia


Boško Janković

Over the next season and a half in Ub, he excelled in attacking midfielder position, scoring 21 league goals in 28 matches.

Dragan Jovanović

Dragan Jovanović is the most common name combination in Serbia.

Foreign relations of Slovenia

In addition, unlike the other successor states of the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia did not normalize relations with the "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" (Serbia and Montenegro) until after the passing from power of Slobodan Milošević; although the Slovenes did open a representative office in Podgorica to work with Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović's government.

Gani Bey Kryeziu


Gani grew up in Serbia, attended a military academy in Sarajevo, and served in the Serbian army in early '20s, as well as aide-de-camp for Alexander I of Yugoslavia, and for a short time in Albania during 1925 after the June Revolution and Zogu coming into power.

Geographical regions in Serbia and Montenegro

Serbia and Montenegro are now separate independent countries following the dissolution of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.

Goran Hadžić

In 2005, Serbian media reported he might be hiding in a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Irig or in Bijela, Montenegro.

History of modern Serbia

History of modern Serbia or Modern history of Serbia covers the history of Serbia since national awakening in the early 19th century from the Ottoman Empire, then Yugoslavia, to the present day Republic of Serbia.

Isakovo

Isakovo, Serbia, a village in the municipality of Ćuprija, Serbia

Marko Baša

Marko Baša was born in Trstenik, in central Serbia (at the time part of SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia).

Miklós Radnóti

The battalion assigned to the Ukrainian front, and then in May 1944 the Hungarian Army retreated and his battalion was transferred to the copper mines in Bor, Serbia.

Operation Uzice

After the offensive commenced on 20 September 1941, the Partisans initially received assistance from local Chetnik formations in opposing the Germans, but after weeks of disagreement and low-level conflict between the two insurgent factions about how the resistance should proceed, the Chetniks launched an attack on the Partisans in the towns of Užice and Požega on November 1 which resulted in the Chetniks being repulsed.

Pesme od bola

Pesme od bola is the second studio album of Serbian singer Aca Lukas, which was released in 1997.

Sava Mutkurov

In the conflict, a Bulgarian victory that defended the revolution, Mutkurov headed the troops fighting at Tsaribrod on 13 November and was also in charge of the central and right wing forces during the Pirot Offensive on 14 and 15 November.

Srđan Mijailović

Srđan Mijailović (Serbian Cyrillic: Срђан Мијаиловић; born on 10th November 1993 in Požega) is a Serbian football player who played for Süper Lig club Kayserispor.

Voja Mirić

Voja Mirić (also known variously as Vojislav Mirić, VojoMirić, Voja Mirik and Voja Mirikj) was born on 7 April 1933 in Trstenik, central Serbia.


2008 Kosovo declaration of independence

On 23 February, 44 protesters were arrested after burning the Serbian flag, in the main square of Zagreb (Croatia), following Serb protesters attacking the Croatian embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.

Andrijaš Mrnjavčević

Andrijaš Vukašinović Mrnjavčević or Andrija Kraljević (?) was a 14th-century Serbian noble who governed the region of Prilep 1371–1395.

AP Vojvodina

Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, SFR Yugoslavia (1990-1992), FR Yugoslavia (1992-2003), Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006), independent Serbia (since 2006)

Arilje

The municipality of Arilje is located in western Serbia in the river basins of the clear mountain rivers of the Rzav and Moravica.

Battle of Dubravnica

The Battle of Dubravnica (Битка на Дубравници) was fought in the summer of 1380 or December 1381, on the Dubravnica River near Paraćin in today's central Serbia, between the Serbian forces of Prince Lazar of Serbia led by commanders Vitomir and Crep

Battle of Liège

After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, the Austrian Empire went to war with Serbia.

Battle of Naissus

The Battle of Naissus (268 or 269 AD) was the defeat of a Gothic coalition by the Roman Empire under Emperor Gallienus (or Claudius II) near Naissus (Niš in present-day Serbia).

Beograd, uživo '97 – 1

Beograd, uživo '97 – 1 (trans. Belgrade, Live '97 - 1) is the first disc of the fourth live album by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1997.

Bjelasica

It has the advantage of being easily accessible, as town of Kolašin is situated on both main road from Podgorica to Serbia and on Belgrade–Bar railway.

Bosniak Academy of Sciences and Arts

The institution is based in Sarajevo (BiH) and has divisions in both Sarajevo and Novi Pazar (Serbia) to better reflect Bosniak interests in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sandžak.

Carabus hungaricus

The majority of its populations inhabit calcareous sandy grasslands from the Deliblat (Serbia: Deliblatska Peščara) throughout the Banat (Serbia, Romania) and sandy areas in Hungary along the Danube River all the way to Vienna (Austria) and South Moravia (Czech Republic).

Çiljeta

She notably had two public reactions against Serbia and Greece politicians: to Serbia after the Serbian government removed a memorial to the Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac in Preševo, an Albanian-inhabited region of Serbia.

CroisiEurope

In France, CroisiEurope sail on the Seine, the Rhône, the Saône, the Gironde, the Meuse, and the Rhine; in Italy, on the Po; in Spain, on the Guadalquivir; in Portugal, on the Guadiana and the Douro; in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, on the Rhine; in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, and Romania, on the Danube; and in Germany, on the Havel and the Oder.

Dragan Mićić

Next, he was back to Serbia, this time signing with FK Budućnost Banatski Dvor, that, since 2006, is going to be known as FK Banat, playing five seasons with them in both Serbian Superliga and the second tier Serbian First League.

Duško Tošić

Born in Zrenjanin, Tošić began his career in his native Serbia playing for OFK Beograd before moving to French club Sochaux for the 2006–07 season but only spent one season with the club as other European clubs from Italy, Germany and Spain were expressing an interest.

Eva Ras

She performed in theatres throughout the former Yugoslavia and Serbia, on television in series written by Siniša Pavić and Dragoslav Lazić, and in films directed by Dušan Makavejev, Aleksandar Petrović, Živko Nikolić, Emir Kusturica, and Ferenc Kardos among others.

FIBA EuroBasket 2013 Group B

The group composed of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.

FreeNetWorld International Film Fest

FreeNetWorld is a film festival held annually in Niš, Niš Fortress, Serbia.

FS Class E.491 and E.492

In 2008, the whole batch of 25 locomotives were sold to Fruilexport, a company established in Niš (Serbia).

History of legal education in Serbia

During the 20th century, all the law schools that later emerged in Serbia (Subotica, Novi Sad, Priština, Niš, Kragujevac), Montenegro (Podgorica), and in other parts of the former Yugoslavia (Sarajevo, Skoplje) were formed from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law as a core.

İzmir Clock Tower

In the former Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire, particularly in present-day Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin towns such as Belgrade, Prijepolje, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Gradačac and Stara Varoš, similar Ottoman era clock towers still exist and are called Sahat Kula (derived from the Turkish words Saat Kulesi, meaning Clock Tower.)

Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?

In 2007, the Serbian and former Yugoslav New Wave band VIS Idoli released a career spanning box set featuring the image as a basis for the box set cover.

Kalemegdan Park

During March 1891, the pathways were cut through, and trees were planted; in 1903 the Little Staircase was built, based on the project of Jelisaveta Načić, the first woman architect in Serbia, while the Big Staircase, designed by architect Aleksandar Krstic, was built in 1928.

Kiprijan Račanin

Kiprijan Račanin or Cyprian of Rača (Кипријан Рачанин; c. 1650–1730) was a Serbian writer and monk who founded a copyist school in Szentendre, just like the one he left behind in Serbia at the commencement of the Great Turkish War in 1689.

Körös-ér

West of the village of Kelebia, the Körös-ér becomes a border river between Hungary and Serbia.

Kosovo je Srbija

In March 2008, American-born Serbian swimmer Milorad Čavić won the European championship in the 50m butterfly, setting the new European record, a result briefly quashed when the European Swimming Federation (LEN) disqualified the swimmer for wearing a T-shirt at the medals ceremony that read “Kosovo is Serbia” in Cyrillic.

László Toroczkai

In 2004, Toroczkai was banned from Serbia for one year because of fight in Palić.

League of Prizren

The Albanians' fear that the lands they inhabited would be partitioned among Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece fueled the rise of resistance.

Milivoje Petrović Blaznavac

When the Obrenović dynasty came back to Serbia in 1858, Blaznavac was immediately arrested and expelled to his native village of Blaznava and deprived of all titles.

Nikola Bošković

Nikola came to Dubrovnik as a boy and his parents sent him to become a trader's apprentice for a wealthy trader called Rad Gleđević, who then dispatched him to Novi Pazar in the Ottoman Empire (today Sandžak, Serbia) to learn from the local traders.

Patrick Besson

Besson supported Serbia during the Yugoslav Wars, which created tension with other intellectuals like Michel Polac, Romain Goupil and Didier Daeninckx.

Pestis

Pestiš, a village in the municipality of Prokuplje, Serbia

Serbia Film Commission

In the past three years, Serbia has served as a location for a number of productions, most recently The Raven directed by James McTeigue, EuropaCorp's Lock Out with Guy Pierce and Maggie Grace, and Ralph Fiennes’ adaptation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.

Serbia–Venezuela relations

In 1993, during the Bosnian War, Venezuela was a member of the United Nations Security Council, and argued strongly for, and voted to impose sanctions on Serbia and Montenegro over their support for Bosnian Serbs in battles with Bosnian Croats around Srebrenica.

Serbian Telecommunication Agency

Serbian Telecommunication Agency (RATEL) was founded at the end of May 2005, as one of the conditions for the implementation of Serbian telecommunication regulations prescribed by the law.

Silvo Plut

He killed his second victim, 25-year-old Jasmina Đošić, on November 18, 2004 in Aleksinac, Serbia.

So Many Words...

So Many Words... is the debut album for the Serbian Irish folk/Celtic rock band Irish Stew of Sindidun, released in 2005.

Stevan Sekereš

Stevan Sekereš (born September 26, 1937 in Mirkovac village in Baranja, Danube Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia died 23. November 2012. in Novi Sad, Serbia) is a Serbian defender who played for SFR Yugoslavia.

Stubline transmitter

Zvečka transmitter is a broadcasting facility for mediumwave and shortwave near Zvečka, Serbia.

Taco Bell Arena

It is the site of the 2013 second-round tie of the tennis Davis Cup between the United States and Serbia.

Tesla's Letters

The play takes place in 1997, two years after Operation Storm and the Dayton Agreement and two years prior to the start of the Kosovo War and the US-led 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, with the scenes set at the Nikola Tesla Museum in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, on a bus at the Serbian-Croatian border, and at Tesla's birthplace in the Croatian village of Smiljan.

Tomáš Poláček

He left Serbia in summer 2011 and returned to the Czech Republic where he joined FK Chmel Blšany.

Transitional Bulgarian dialects

On Bulgarian territory, the Transitional dialects occupy a narrow strip of land along the Bulgarian border with Serbia, including the regions of Tran, Breznik, Godech and Belogradchik.

Tsaratsovo

Large part of the production is exported to other EU members, Russia, Serbia and Monte Negro.

Univerzitet u Prištini

Following establishing NATO control over the territory of Kosovo, the Albanian faculty gained control of the campus after the end of the Kosovo War in 1999, while the Serbian faculty relocated first to central Serbia (from 1999 to 2001 the seat was in Kruševac) and two years later to the northern Kosovo (the seat is currently in Kosovska Mitrovica).

Wan Houliang

Wan Houliang would start his career playing for his hometown club Beijing Huaya's youth team before going on a football training course in Serbia where he played for third tier side FK ČSK Pivara's youth and reserve team.

ZaMirNET

Amidst the "worst crimes committed in Europe this century" the first major experiment in email was launched in June 1992 in Zagreb and Belgrade, almost exactly a year after Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia, triggering a brutal response from Serbia.

Zlatan Alomerović

Zlatan Alomerović was born in the former Yugoslavia city Priboj, located in Serbia.