Serbia "Land of Beauty"
Overview:
Serbia was a founder and one of six republics that formed the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It had engaged in a lot of wars during the last two decades to save its empire “Federal Republic of Yugoslavia”. On the other hand, In the early 1990s, post-Tito Yugoslavia began to unravel along ethnic lines: Slovenia, Croatia, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia all split from the Yugoslav Union in 1991; and Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992. All efforts to preserve Yugoslavia were ultimately unsuccessful and bloody civil wars broke out between Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia. As a result of these civil wars the Serbs and the Macedonian declared a new "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" (FRY) in 1992. Then in 2002, the republics of Serbia and Montenegro began negotiations to forge a new republic, which led to the name change of the nation to "Serbia and Montenegro", then Montenegro declared independence in June 2006.
Location:
It is located in the Balkans, in Southern Europe.
Regions:
Serbia can be divided into five regions:
Belgrade
Podunavlje
Podrinje
Šumadija
Vojvodina
Language:
Serbian is the official language.
Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Croatian languages are all official in Vojvodina.
Religion:
For centuries straddling the religious boundary between Orthodoxy and Catholicism, joined up later by Islam, Serbia remains one of the most diverse countries on the continent.
Cities:
Belgrade: is also pronounced as Beograd. It is the capital of Serbia.
Kragujevac: is the first capital of modern Serbia.
Serbia was a founder and one of six republics that formed the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It had engaged in a lot of wars during the last two decades to save its empire “Federal Republic of Yugoslavia”. On the other hand, In the early 1990s, post-Tito Yugoslavia began to unravel along ethnic lines: Slovenia, Croatia, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia all split from the Yugoslav Union in 1991; and Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992. All efforts to preserve Yugoslavia were ultimately unsuccessful and bloody civil wars broke out between Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia. As a result of these civil wars the Serbs and the Macedonian declared a new "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" (FRY) in 1992. Then in 2002, the republics of Serbia and Montenegro began negotiations to forge a new republic, which led to the name change of the nation to "Serbia and Montenegro", then Montenegro declared independence in June 2006.
Location:
It is located in the Balkans, in Southern Europe.
Regions:
Serbia can be divided into five regions:
Belgrade
Podunavlje
Podrinje
Šumadija
Vojvodina
Language:
Serbian is the official language.
Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Croatian languages are all official in Vojvodina.
Religion:
For centuries straddling the religious boundary between Orthodoxy and Catholicism, joined up later by Islam, Serbia remains one of the most diverse countries on the continent.
Cities:
Belgrade: is also pronounced as Beograd. It is the capital of Serbia.
Kragujevac: is the first capital of modern Serbia.
References:
Serbia, Wiki-travel. Retrieved from : http://wikitravel.org/en/Serbia#b