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12 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.

Eparchy of Raška and Prizren

The Eparchy directly serves the Serbian Orthodox of Kosovo and the lower Raška District (Tutin and Novi Pazar).

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.

Goran Hadžić

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

Irig

Irig, Serbia, a town and municipality in the Srem District of Vojvodina, Serbia

Isakovo

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

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).

Leonid Šejka

Leonid Šejka (1932–1970) was Serbian painter and architect.

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.

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.

Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy

The largest ethnic groups represented in the school include Somalis, Indians, Afghans, Serbians, and many others.


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.

2008 Men's Water Polo Olympic Qualifier

Germany, Italy, Greece and Canada qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China, joining Australia, China, Croatia, Hungary, Montenegro, Serbia, Spain, and the United States.

3rd Land Force Brigade

The brigade was formed on June 4, 2007, with command in Niš from the former land forces units located in eastern Serbia; the 211th Armoured Brigade from Niš, the 125th Motorized Brigade, 549th Motorized Brigade, 4th Motorized Brigade, the 352nd Engineer Regiment from Prokuplje, the 52nd Artillery-rocked Air Defence Brigade and several other smaller units.

A Band Called Quinn

A Band Called Quinn played The Refract Festival in Serbia in 2005 after their song The World Is Upside Down was played on Serbian radio station B92 by Slobodan Konjovic and went to number eight in the Serbian Diskomer Chart.

Aćif Hadžiahmetović

This event was attended by Sulejman Ugljanin (Minister Without Portfolio of Serbia), Esad Džudžević (president of the Bosniak National Council) and Ahmedin Škrijelj (deputy mayor of Novi Pazar).

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)

Battle of Kumanovo

Third Army, under Božidar Janković, composed of four infantry divisions and one infantry brigade (76,000 men), deployed in two groups, the first one at Toplica and the second one at Medveđa, was assigned to the westernmost attack, with the task to take Kosovo and then move south to attack the left flank of the enemy.

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 – 2

Beograd, uživo '97 – 2 (trans. Belgrade, Live '97 – 2) is the second disc of the fourth live album by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1997.

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.

Butcher of the Balkans

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

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.

Crno na belo

Crno na belo (Black and white) is the title of the comeback single by the Serbian punk rock band Goblini, featuring the songs "Luna" ("The Moon"), written during the rehearsals held on May 2010, and "Kao da" ("As if"), written during the U magnovenju recording sessions.

Croatian Franciscan Province of Saints Cyril and Methodius

The province was formed in 1900, and has monasteries throughout northern Croatia, as well as in Subotica, Bač, Novi Sad and Zemun, 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.

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.

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.

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.

FreeNetWorld International Film Fest

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

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.

German invasion of Belgium

This started a chain reaction of political events: Serbia's ally Russia joined the war on Austria, Austria's ally Germany joined the war on Russia and Serbia and Russia's ally France declared war on both of the Central Powers.

Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008

As a "Big 4" member (the four biggest financial contributors of the contest), Germany qualifies directly for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 alongside last year's winner Serbia and the three other "Big 4" members France, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Gert Fylking

After strong public reaction including a letter of protest to the station by Serbia's ambassador to Stockholm, Dušan Crnogorčević, Fylking apologized for the statements, but was suspended from work indefinitely.

Gornje Livade

Gornje Livade, Banat, a small geographical area in south-eastern Banat, Serbia.

Iazyges

In early 92, the Iazyges, in alliance with the Sarmatians proper and the Germanic Quadi, crossed the Danube into the Roman province of Pannonia (mod. Croatia, northern Serbia, and western Hungary).

Ivica Jovanović

Born in Zajecar, Serbia, he begin playing with FK Timok Zaječar in the Second League of Serbia and Montenegro in the 2003–04 season, and he later spent some seasons in Belgium playing with KSC Lokeren.

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.)

İzmit 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 are still named Sahat Kula (deriving from the Turkish words Saat Kulesi, meaning Clock Tower.)

Karlovci

Sremski Karlovci, a town and municipality in Srem, Vojvodina, Serbia

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.

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.

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.

Milan Radonjić

Consequently and especially after Serbian law prohibited TV card readings, he started working at five television stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including nationwide OBN television based in Sarajevo, and a number of television stations in Croatia, including nationwide Nova TV based in Zagreb.

Pomoć, pomoć

"Pomoć, pomoć" ("Help, Help") is the first song which appeared on the first single by Serbian new wave band Idoli.

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.

Silent Gunpowder

Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans.

Silver Cross Records

Silver Cross Records has been awarded as the best music company in Serbia for 1995 by Index Radio.

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.

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.

Timočani

Today, Timočani can be used as an informal name for the inhabitants of the Timok region in Serbia and Bulgaria.

Tomáš Poláček

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

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.

Zoran G. Jančić

He is currently teaching at Faculty of Arts in the city of Niš, Serbia, and he is also head of piano department.