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| Republic of Serbia Република Србија Republika Srbija | |
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| Capital and largest city | Belgrade |
| Official languages | Serbian |
| Demonym(s) | Serbian |
| Government | Unitary parliamentary republic |
• President | Aleksandar Vučić |
• Prime Minister | Miloš Vučević |
| Area | |
• Total | 77,474 km²(without Kosovo) 88,361 km² (with Kosovo) |
| Population | |
• 2022 estimate | 6,797,105 (without Kosovo) |
Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country in the Balkans region of southern Europe. It borders Hungary to the north, Romania to the northeast, Bulgaria to the southeast, North Macedonia to the south and Montenegro, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the west. When including the breakaway region of Kosovo to the southwest Serbia also borders Albania.
History[edit | edit source]
Kingdom of Serbia[edit | edit source]
Serbia sided with the Entente during the First World War and as such, Yugoslavia was created.
Yugoslavia[edit | edit source]
See: Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945–1992) and Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)
Post-Yugoslavia[edit | edit source]
NATO-backed separatists in Kosovo led by the Kosovo Liberation Army declared independence from Serbia in 2008.[1]
Communist nostalgia[edit | edit source]
In 2010, 81% of Serbians said that life was better under Tito in Yugoslavia than it is now.[2]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Ben Becker, Mazda Majidi (2018-07-27). "The unipolar era of imperialism and its potential undoing" Liberation School. Archived from the original on 2022-04-02. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
- ↑ "Serbia Poll: Life Was Better Under Tito" (2010-12-24). Balkan Insight. Archived from the original on 2022-05-09. Retrieved 2022-10-08.