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9 unusual facts about Serbian


Borislav Dević

Some of Dević's personal best results are maintained as Serbian results by Serbia's Athletic Association's all-time best lists.

Dane Korica

Danijel Korica (Serbian Cyrillic: Данијел Корица, born 10 June 1945), better known by his nickname Dane in his home country, is a Serbian retired long-distance runner who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Dragiša Pavlović

Dragisa Pavlovic ( 5 October 1943 - Belgrade, 9 September 1996 ) was a Serbian and Yugoslav communist politician, known primarily as one of the top figures who publicly opposed Slobodan Milosevic and tried to prevent his rise to power.

Goran Raičević

Goran Raičević (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Раичевић, June 26, 1963 - May 6, 1999) was a Serbian long-distance runner.

Jelena Lengold

Jelena Lengold (born 1959) is a Serbian poet, novelist and journalist.

Kosovo Myth

The Kosovo Myth or Kosovo Testament is a traditional belief of the Serbian people asserting that the Battle of Kosovo symbolizes a martyrdom of the Serbian nation in defense of their honor and Christendom against Turks (non-believers).

Krestić

Krestić is a Serbian surname, related to the word "kresta" ("креста"), the Ekavian form of the Serbian word for a rooster comb.

Serbians

The term Srbijanci is not part of the modern Serbian mainstream language as its frequency and usage is minimal.

In a similar way, adjectives "Serb" and "Serbian" could be used to mean "of Serbs" and "of Serbia", respectively, though they too are used interchangeably.


1981 protests in Kosovo

In March and April 1981, a student protest in Priština, the capital of the Yugoslav and Serbian province of Kosovo, led to widespread protests by the Kosovo Albanians demanding more autonomy within the Yugoslav federation.

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.

2011 Serbia Open

The third edition of the event hosted by current Serbian star Novak Djokovic, it was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2011 ATP World Tour.

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.

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

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Battle of Kosturino

French forces under the command of General Maurice Sarrail advanced deep into Serbian territory with the intent of reaching the Serbian Army at Niš.

Battle of Sződfalva

Few Serbian soldiers still stood by Szapolyai, mainly the Lipovian Serbs.

Belgrade Central Station

Belgrade–Glavna railway station (in Serbian: Železnička stanica Beograd–Glavna / Железничка станица Београд–Главна), today's centrally located main railway station in Belgrade

Darko F. Ribnikar

Davorin "Darko" F. Ribnikar was the editor in chief of the Serbian newspaper Politika.

Darkwood Dub

In 2001, the band participated in the project organized by a former Bjesovi vocalist Goran Marić, Pesme iznad istoka i zapada (Songs above the East and West), featuring various Serbian rock bands composing music to the poems and prayers written by Nikolaj Velimirović, with the track "Molitva Blagom Hristu" ("A Prayer to the Mild Christ").

E-Play

Beside the material, featuring the song lyrics written by in both Serbian and English language, the band recorded a cover version of the Monteniggers track "Pop", originally released in 1996 on the album Tajna marenda.

Emanuel Cvjetićanin

as a Serbian administration officer with other 21 soldiers in Saint-Mandrier-sur-Mer near Toulon in France.

František Lipka

František Lipka is also an important translator of Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian and Macedonian literature.

Franz Oppenheimer

It was translated into English, French, Hungarian, Serbian, Japanese, Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian and has impressed and inspired very different thinkers like Israeli Dan Halutz, American communitarians, and American libertarians like Albert Jay Nock, Murray Rothbard and Frank Chodorov.

Gordon Warwick

He was in charge of Serbian prisoners of war at Cesena and prior to demobilization he spent time teaching at the Army Formation College at Perugia.

Hadersfild

Hadersfild (Serbian phonetic spelling of Huddersfield) is a Serbian film from 2007, directed by Ivan Živković, and the script was written by Uglješa Šajtinac.

Hari Varešanović

Varešanović performed a song with music written by Serbian composer Željko Joksimović and lyrics written by Bosnian writer Fahrudin Pecikoza and Serbian Dejan Ivanović.

Hristofor Zhefarovich

Hristofor Zhefarovich (original Cyrillic: Христофоръ Жефаровичъ; Bulgarian: Христофор Жефарович, Hristofor Zhefarovich; Macedonian: Христофор Жефаровиќ, Hristofor Žefarović; Serbian: Христофор Жефаровић, Hristofor Žefarović) was an 18th-century Macedonian painter, engraver, writer and poet and a notable proponent of Pan-Slavism.

I've Got a Feeling

Serbian new wave band Električni orgazam released a cover version of the song as a B-side of their first single "Konobar".

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).

JK Revolution

The single is actually a Serbian version of "Se Esfuma Tu Amor" (Your Love Disappears), song by Marc Anthony, which was released on his ninth studio album Amar Sin Mentiras.

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.

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.

Lazar the Serb

Elder Grigorije (fl. 1310–1355), fellow Serbian Athonite and builder of the Monastery of the Holy Archangels.

Ljig

The ruins of the Vavedenje monastery, however, include impressive sarcophagi dating from the 15th century, believed to belong to the Serbian despots Stefan Branković and Đurađ Branković.

Ljubomir Ivanović

Studied painting and drawing in the Serbian painter's and draughtsman's school of Kyril Kutlik, and later Beta Vukanović.

Manojlović

Igor Manojlović (born 1977), Serbian professional football player

Melissa Stott

There was also a guest appearance by Serbian trumpet and flugelhorn player Stjepko “Steve” Gut on several tracks.

Milan B. Popović

In 2010, seventeen Serbian (mostly metal) bands recorded the songs on the lyrics written by Popović, releasing them on the compilation album Vreme brutalnih dobronamernika.

Milorad Dodik

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

Nikola Ignjatijević

Nikola Ignjatijević (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Игњатијевић; born December 12, 1983 in Požarevac) is a Serbian footballer who plays as left back for Ukrainian club Zorya Luhansk.

Pašino Brdo

Name of the playground is "Vrbica", celebrating Lazarus Saturday, called Vrbica in Serbian and generally considered a children's holiday.

Pavle Grubješić

While playing for Partizan, he held the nickname of Brzi Gonzales which in Serbian means Speedy Gonzales.

Radio Bulgaria

In 2004, Radio Bulgaria broadcasts to Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America on short and medium wave in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Serbian, Greek, Albanian and Turkish.

Risto Perišić

On 19 May 1992 the Užice Corps officially withdrew from Višegrad, handing over control of the town to the Serbian Municipality of Višegrad, under the presidency of Branimir Savović.

Saint Arsenije I Sremac

His feast day is celebrated according to the Orthodox liturgical calendar on October 28 (for those churches, such as the Serbian Orthodox Church, which follow the traditional Julian Calendar, October 28 falls on November 10 of the modern Gregorian Calendar).

Saint Spyridon Church, Trieste

History of the Orthodox community in Trieste begins in 1751 when Empress Maria Theresa allow free practice of religion for Orthodox Christians what prompted immigration of Serbian traders from Herceg Novi, Trebinje and Sarajevo to Trieste.

Serbian Cup

The Serbian FA agreed the marketing rights with popular Serbian brewery from Čelarevo Carlsberg Srbija and cup was named after its main brand Lav pivo.

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.

Slobodan Janković

Slobodan Janković (footballer born 1986) – Goalkeeper, currently playing for Serbian club FK Napredak Kruševac

Srbská Kamenice

On 27 January 1972, Serbian stewardess Vesna Vulović was the only person on board to survive the crash of JAT Yugoslav Flight 364 after Croatian Ustašas set up the bomb, which exploded 10,160 meters (33,000 ft) above Srbská Kamenice.

Ten-Day War

However, the incident sparked renewed public debate after the footage was shown on Serbian TV station B92 in 2006, with many claiming that the soldiers were shot and killed by Slovenian TO troops and that Slovenia is trying to cover up the affair.

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).

Vojinović noble family

The power of Vojinović family, left its mark in the Serbian folk tradition, so that they appear in the epic folk poetry, in Pretkosovski Cycle (Miloš Vojinović), and they are mentioned as builders and architects of Serbian medieval buildings in Vučitrn, Old Bridge (Vojinovića most) and fort (Vojinovića Kula).

Vukovar, jedna priča

Writing for the Croatian daily Jutarnji list, Jurica Pavičić gave it a scathing review, saying the film was consistently promoting a false equidistance between the Croatian and Serbian nationalism in the war, that was especially irritating at the time when the Vukovar massacre had happened.

Zavala, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zavala was part of the Serbian medieval župa (district) of Popovo, referred to in the Chronicles of the priest Dukljanin and in a deed of gift of prince Miroslav issued to the Church of St Peter in Lim at the end of the twelfth century.


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