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unusual facts about Belgrade, Serbia



117th Fighter Aviation Regiment

The 117th Fighter Aviation Regiment remained at Pula in 1948, but that same year it moved to Cerklje, where it was to remain until 1949 when it was moved to Zemun, with the new task of defending the capital city Belgrade.

1983 Kopaonik earthquake

1983 Kopaonik earthquake was a 5.3 Richter earthquake in Serbia, at Kopaonik.

2002–03 ABA Goodyear League

Crvena Zvezda finished top of the table in regular season, although the club didn't play its last round match against Maccabi, since the Israeli club didn't travel to Belgrade due to the state of emergency proclaimed following the March 2003 assassination of Serbian prime minister Zoran Đinđić.

4th Land Force Brigade

It is covering the territory of southern Serbia, from the border with the Republic of Macedonia in the south to the border with Bulgaria in the east and the administrative border with Kosovo in the west to the area around the city of Leskovac in the north.

Aleksandar Bačko

Primary and high school Aleksandar Bačko graduated in Belgrade, where he have studied at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Philosophy (department of history).

Aleksandar Maćašev

He moved to Belgrade in 1991 to attend the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, and graduated in 1998.

AP Vojvodina

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

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.

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.

Brienz

In the 5th century BC, the Celts settled in the alpine valleys among the sources of the Rhone, the Rhine and the Danube, eventually stretching from the headwaters down to Vienna and Belgrade.

Butcher of the Balkans

Slobodan Milošević (1941–2006), the former president of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Clisura Dunării

Miodrag Belodedici (born 1964), Romanian retired footballer, won the European cup with Steaua Bucureşti and Red Star Belgrade (1985, 1990).

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.

E-novine

Editorial office drew a dozen of junior editors and journalists from Belgrade, in addition to contributors from the entire region of Balkans such as Emir Imamović, Andrej Nikolaidis, Filip David, Mirko Kovač, Vladimir Arsenić, Nenad Veličković, Dženana Karabegović, Ljubomir Živkov and many others.

FIBA EuroBasket 2013 Group B

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

FK Teteks

They won the Macedonian Republic League on four occasions and along with Vardar, was the only other Macedonian club to have won the Federal EasternYugoslav Second League containing only the teams from 3 federal Republics:Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia Kosovo and Voivodinship.

Frane Matošić

He twice refused Josip Broz Tito's offer of transferring of Hajduk to Belgrade and renaming it into "Partizan"

FreeNetWorld International Film Fest

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

Humanitarian Law Center

In April 2008 the submission of evidence by HLC about war crimes committed in Lovas, Croatia, led to the Belgrade War Crimes Chamber began the trial of 14 indictees for their alleged role in the killing of 70 Croatian civilians in the first war crimes trial of former Yugoslav National Army officers.

International Radio of Serbia

In November, 1941, during the occupation of Belgrade in the Second World War, a Free Yugoslavia radio station started its work and it broadcast its program until 1945, from the city of Ufa on the Ural River (Russia).

Ivan Aničin

Ivan Aničin, (born 25 March 1944 in Bor, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is Yugoslav and Serbian nuclear physicist, particle physicist, astrophysicist, and cosmologist, university Full Professor and Distinguished (teaching/research) Professor of scientific institutes in Belgrade (Serbia), Bristol (United Kingdom), Grenoble (France), and Munich (Germany).

Između dva zla

The first, the second and the partially the third part were recorded live at the Belgrade SKC, on September 11, 1999.

Josef Schulz

On 20 July 1941, a Wehrmacht firing squad executed sixteen Yugoslav partisans within the barracks of Smederevska Palanka, southeast of Belgrade.

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.

KK Sloboda Užice

In his debut season in the highest men's basketball competition in Serbia, the BC Sloboda has been ranked 9th, with 12 wins and 14 defeats.

Kozmetika

Simultaneously, the band worked on publishing the youth magazine Izgled, and it was on the magazine promotion, held at the Belgrade SKC that the band had their first live performance.

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.

Milan Matulović

Other first place finishes during this period, either shared or outright, included Netanya 1961, Vršac 1964, Novi Sad 1965, Belgrade 1965, Reggio Emilia 1967/68, Athens Zonal 1969, Belgrade 1969, Sarajevo 1971, Birmingham 1975, Bajmok 1975 (and in 1978), Majdanpek 1976, Vrbas 1976, Belgrade 1977 and Odzaci 1978.

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.

Milorad Dodik

On 5 May 2008, Dodik and Serbian President Boris Tadić inaugurated the Park Republika Srpska in Belgrade.

Natalie of Serbia

In 1888, Queen Natalie and her son left for another long foreign stay in Wiesbaden - obviously without intention to return to Belgrade.

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.

Paulina Irby

Similarly, a street in Belgrade, within the municipality of Zvezdara, Ulica Mis Irbijeve carries her name.

Pavle Bulatović

The shooting took place at a restaurant in the Belgrade suburb of Banjica and Bulatović later died at a military hospital.

PCC streetcar

The PCC technology was exported to Europe, with La Brugeoise et Nivelles (now the BN division of Bombardier) of Bruges, Belgium, building several hundred streetcars that saw service in Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, The Hague, Saint-Étienne, Marseille and Belgrade (the latter city buying vehicles initially used by the Belgian Vicinal railways).

Pestis

Pestiš, a village in the municipality of Prokuplje, Serbia

Port of Bar

The announced building of Belgrade–Bar motorway and proposed reconstruction of Belgrade - Bar railway would thus mark a breakthrough in attracting the Serbian, and thus the Central European market.

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.

Sreten Asanović

From 1957 to 1960, he was editor-in-chief of the Titograd (Podgorica) magazine Susreti; editor for the Sarajevo magazine Oslobođenje from 1960 to 1962; first editor-in-chief of the journal Odjek from 1963 to 1965; secretary of the Commission for Culture and Art in Belgrade from 1963 to 1965, and editor-in-chief of the Titograd magazine Stvaranje from 1973 to 1989.

Stefan Kanchev

After leaving the National Academy of Arts shortly before graduation, Kanchev took part in exhibitions and biennales in Bulgaria and abroad over the next 22 years, including Belgrade, Budapest, Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Brno, Ljubljana and New York City.

Tomáš Poláček

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

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).

Veliki brat

The house is located in Belgrade, urban neighborhood of Košutnjak.

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.


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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.

Anastasia Razvalyaeva

She played solo and chamber music concerts at various festivals such as the Kodály Festival in Kecskemét, Hungary (2010), International Harp Festival in Belgrade, Serbia (2010), International Harp Festival in Gödöllő, Hungary (2010 – 2011), Budapest Spring Festival, Hungary (2011), International Chamber Music Festival, in Kaposvár, Hungary (2011).

Brđani

Brđani, Ripanj, a borrough of Ripanj, a suburban settlement of Belgrade, Serbia

Ceren Kestirengöz

In 2011, she won the bronze medal with the national team at the Women's European Volleyball Championship held in Belgrade, Serbia.

Dragomir Čumić

Dragomir Čumić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгомир Чумић) also known as Drago Čuma (8 May 1937 in Sirač near Daruvar, Kingdom of Yugoslavia - 10 November 2013 in Belgrade, Serbia) was a Serbian actor.

Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration

Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration (FEFA) (Serbian: Факултет за економију, финансије и администрацију / Fakultet za ekonomiju, finansije i administraciju) is a faculty in Novi Beograd, Belgrade, Serbia.

Galenika

Galenika a.d., a pharmaceutical company from Zemun (Belgrade), Serbia.

International School of Belgrade

The International School of Belgrade is an independent, co-educational, international school in Belgrade, Serbia, located in the neighborhood of Senjak.

Jasmin Bašić

He graduated in 2003 and obtained his Master of Music Degree (Vocal performance and pedagogy) from University of Sarajevo in 2006 under famous and world's recognized soprano Radmila Bakočević Belgrade (Serbia).

Joy of Europe

The annual event takes place in Belgrade, Serbia with 30 European nations showcasing their culture through dance and music.

Marija Ugrica

Marija Ugrica (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Угрица) (born July 27, 1995 in Belgrade, Serbia) is a pop singer well known by her strong live performances and YouTube music covers.

Neda Ukraden

When the war in Bosnia started, Neda left Sarajevo, Bosnia and moved to Belgrade, Serbia, where she resides today with her mother, daughter, son and grandchildren.

Ognjen Petrović

Ognjen "Olja" Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Огњен Петровић) (2 January 1948 in Kruševac, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia – 21 September 2000 in Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian goalkeeper who played at Euro 76 for SFR Yugoslavia.

Steven J. Schloeder

“Per Lumina Vera ad Verum Lumen: The Anagogical Intention of Abbot Suger”, in ΣΙΜΜΕΙΚΤΑ: Collection of Works – 40th Anniversary of the Institute for Art History, ed.Ivan Stevović, University of Belgrade, Serbia 2011.

Terazije Theatre

Theatre on Terazije (Serbian: Позориште на Теразијама / Pozorište na Terazijama) is a Broadway-style theatre in the Terazije area of Belgrade, Serbia.

Zana

Zana (band), a music group from Belgrade, Serbia, named after its first vocalist Zana Nimani

Zorana Mihajlović

Mihajlović was born in May 1970 in Tuzla, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, but she finished her elementary and secondary school in Belgrade, Serbia.