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4 unusual facts about Serbia and Montenegro


Extreme points of Serbia and Montenegro

Serbia and Montenegro split in 2006 to form two separate countries.

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.

Reid Priddy

Also participated in the Japan Tour, Houston Series, USA Global Challenge (gold medal), and the Serbia and Montenegro Tour (silver medal).

SRJ

Serbia and Montenegro, known as Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1992 to 2003 (Saverza Republika Jugoslavija)


.cs

In July 2003, CS became the ISO 3166-1 code for Serbia and Montenegro (Srbija i Crna Gora in Serbian), and remained so until 2006, when the country split and the codes for domains .rs and .me were created.

1998 Saint Silvester Road Race

The men's race was won by Kenya's Paul Tergat, his third victory, whereas the women's event was won by Serbia and Montenegro's Olivera Jevtić, her first triumph.

2005 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships

The 2005 Men's Ice Hockey Championships were held March 7 - May 15, 2005, in 7 cities in 6 countries: Vienna and Innsbruck, Austria (Championship); Debrecen, Hungary (Division I - Group A); Eindhoven, the Netherlands (Division I - Group B); Zagreb, Croatia (Division II - Group A); Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro (Division II - Group B); Mexico City, Mexico (Division III).

Danko Lazović

When Serbia and Montenegro split, Lazović represented Serbia, and scored the first goal ever in international football for the new team; an equaliser in their friendly against the Czech Republic on 16 August 2006 in Uherské Hradiště, which they went on to win 3–1.

Franco Brienza

In 2005, Brienza was called up to the Italian national team by Marcello Lippi and has been subsequently been capped during a North-American tour with the Azzurri, marking his debut in a 1–1 draw with Serbia and Montenegro at Rogers Centre, Toronto on 8 June 2005, substituted Giorgio Chiellini in the 64th minutes.

Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac

The Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac (Albanian: Ushtria Çlirimtare e Preshevës, Medvegjës dhe Bujanocit, UÇPMB) was a separatist militant group fighting for independence from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for the three municipalities: Preševo, Bujanovac, and Medveđa, home to most of the ethnic Albanians of Central Serbia, adjacent to Kosovo.

Milan Susak

Susak's previous club was FK Vojvodina in the Meridian Superliga in Serbia and Montenegro, for whom he made 22 appearances having also played on loan in two lower league clubs, Veternik and ČSK Pivara.

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 Figure Skating Championships

The Serbian Figure Skating Championships are a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of Serbia (Serbia and Montenegro prior to 2006 and Yugoslavia prior to 2002).

Veljko Milatović

Veljko Milatović (Serbo-Croat Cyrillic: Вељко Милатовић) (born 5 December 1921 in Nikšić, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes – died 19 October 2004 in Herceg Novi, Serbia and Montenegro) was a Montenegrin Communist partisan, politician, statesman serving once as the Speaker and the other time as President.


see also

.yu

After Serbia and Montenegro acquired separate .rs and .me domains in 2007, a transition period started, and the .

AP Vojvodina

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

Arbitration Commission of the Peace Conference on Yugoslavia

On 20 November 1991 Lord Carrington asked if some republics seceded from SFRY, which, as Serbia and Montenegro had claimed, continues to exist, or did SFRY dissolve and all of the republics were equal successors to the SFRY.

Branimir Petrović

He was part of the Serbia and Montenegro team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where they exited in the first round, finishing last in Group C behind gold-medal winners Argentina, Australia and Tunisia.

Football in Montenegro

Famous Montenegrins who played for the Yugoslav and Serbia and Montenegro team included Dragoljub Brnović, Dejan Savićević Milos Zaravic and Predrag Mijatović.

However, at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, held in the latter half of June and in July 2006, Serbia and Montenegro continued to play, representing the two independent states of Serbia and Montenegro.

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.

Frano Supilo

He, Trumbić and Meštrović started the action to free Croats, Serbs and Slovenians from Austro-Hungary and unite them with Serbia and Montenegro.

Jokić

Ljubiša Jokić (born 1958), former general in the Military of Serbia and Montenegro.

Jovičić

Igor Jovičić (born 1964), first and last Secretary General of Serbia and Montenegro

Makoto Sasamoto

He reached the knock-out stage of the competition, by winning the preliminary pool round against Peru's Sidney Guzman, and Serbia and Montenegro's Davor Štefanek.

Mensur Bajramović

He was the head coach of the senior Bosnian national basketball team, and he was Bosnian coach at EuroBasket 2005 in Serbia and Montenegro.

Milan Ćalasan

Ćalasan was reportedly involved in the negotiations between the two parties since the fall of 2004 at which time Serbia and Montenegro was represented by its defence minister Prvoslav Davinić and its president Svetozar Marović.

Moja ljubavi

But, due to the accusations of tactical voting of the RTCG jury members, UJRT decided that Serbia and Montenegro would withdraw from ESC 2006.

Pećka Bistrica

The Pećka Bistrica originates from the eastern slopes of the Mokra mountain, on the border of Serbia and Montenegro, at the altitude of 1,900 m, in the Rugovo region of Metohija.

Serbia and Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest

On 20 March 2006, Serbia and Montenegro officially withdrew from the ESC.

Treaty of Berlin

Treaty of Berlin (1878), which recognized an autonomous Bulgarian principality and the independence of Romania, Serbia and Montenegro from the Ottoman Empire

W.A.K.O. European Championships 1996

W.A.K.O. European Championships 1996 were the thirteenth European kickboxing championships hosted by the W.A.K.O. organization arranged by the Serbia and Montenegro kickboxing president Borislav Pelević.