History UsefulNotes / Serbia

* '''Highest point:''' Midžor (2169 m/7,116 ft) (114th)

* '''Highest point:''' Midžor (2169 m/7,116 ft) (132nd)

* '''ISO-3166-1 Code:''' RS

* '''Area:''' 88,361 km (34,116 sq mi) (111th) (including Kosovo) or 77,474 km (29,913 sq mi) (excluding Kosovo)

* '''Area:''' 88,361 km (34,116 sq mi) (111th) (including Kosovo) ot 77,474 km (29,913 sq mi) (excluding Kosovo)

[[AC:The Serbian flag]]

** President of the National Assembly: Ivica Dačić

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->The flag uses the Pan-Slavic colors and has been the dominant colors since the days of Yugoslavia. Off-center towards the hoist is the national coat-of-arms -- a crowned shield depicting a double-headed Serbian eagle flanked by two small fleurs-de-lys bearing a smaller shield containing the "Serbian cross", which is surrounded on all sides by four Cyrillic Cs, said to represent the initials of the words "Само Слога Србина Спасава" ("Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava" -- "Only Unity Saves the Serbs"), the motto of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Sava St. Sava]], first leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
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* Catherine Oxenberg - Serbian-American actress. Best known for her role as [[Series/{{Dynasty}} Amanda Carrington]].

* The Slavers arc of ''[[ComicBook/PunisherMAX The Punisher MAX]]'' has the titular antagonists as Serbian war criminals that fought in the [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Yugoslav Wars]] and later turned to HumanTrafficking to make ends meet.

* Vlade Divac - Former NBA basketball player and current NBA general manager.

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After the war, Serbia was merged with UsefulNotes/{{Montenegro}} and a collection of former Austrian possessions to create UsefulNotes/{{Yugoslavia}}. During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Yugoslavia, surrounded by hostile neighbours and boiling with internal tensions, started aligning itself with the Axis; however, in 1941, immediately after the government has signed a pact officially joining Yugoslavia with the Axis powers which would include allowing Germany to freely pass through Serbia and attack Greece, the military officials organized a coup, supported by the Serbian people, dethroning the pro-axis regency council and installing a new government which was technically headed by the underage King himself. Angered, the Axis attacked Yugoslavia and occupied it after a brief struggle; parts were annexed to UsefulNotes/{{Hungary}}, UsefulNotes/{{Bulgaria}}, UsefulNotes/{{Germany}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Italy}} and (Independent State of) UsefulNotes/{{Croatia}} while the rest of Serbia became a German puppet state. During the war, Croatian fascists called Ustaše along with Albanian collaborators [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_persecution_of_Serbs killed between 320 000 and 340 000]] ethnic Serbians (not counting Serbian Roma and Jews). This lead to forming of two resistance movements, capitalist Chetniks and communist Partisans. The Croats and Bosnians who were against the Ustaše's regime mostly joined the Partisans with Chetniks mostly consisting of conservative Serbians. However, Partisans got the upper hand during the war (with Allied forces shifting their support from Chetniks to them) and killed the remaining Chetniks. In 1945, after the partisans and the Red Army have liberated its territory, they reorganized Yugoslavia into a federation of six republics and two autonomous regions in Serbia (Kosovo and Vojvodina) under a communist government led by UsefulNotes/JosipBrozTito. Despite being Communist, however, it was not a Soviet satellite, remaining neutral throughout the Cold War and helping to found the Non-Aligned Movement.

* The J'avo in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' speak Serbian as well as Cantonese, and most of the enemies in the game have Serbian names.

* Music/MarijaSerifovic, winner of the Series/EurovisionSongContest 2007.

* ''ASerbianFilm'' (even though many Serbians want nothing to do with this film)

* ''Series/SEALTeam's'' third season premier is set in Serbia as Bravo Team goes to capture an ArmsDealer who has been linked to the bombings of multiple U.S. military bases.

* ASerbianFilm (even though many Serbians want nothing to do with this film)

* The "Dragon Shooter" arc of ''Manga/{{Jormungand}}'' takes place in [[BrandX Republic T]], which is so ''obviously'' Serbia (with Autonomous Region X being based on Republika Srpska, the Serb entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina) it's not even funny. The plot of the arc itself involves Koko's trying to muscle in on the arms market of a local war criminal [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial who is absolutely not a thinly veiled]] {{Expy}} of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Željko_Ražnatovic Željko]] Ražnatović.

* The "Dragon Shooter" arc of ''Manga/{{Jormungand}}'' takes place in [[BrandX Republic T]], which is so ''obviously'' Serbia (or Republika Srpska, the Serb entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina) it's not even funny. The plot of the arc itself involves Koko's trying to muscle in on the arms market of a local war criminal [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial who is absolutely not a thinly veiled]] {{Expy}} of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Željko_Ražnatovic Željko]] Ražnatović.

While Tito was not a benevolent leader by any stretch of the imagination, he was at least able to keep ethnic tensions from bubbling to the surface. The combination of Tito's death and economic collapse stoked nationalist fervor in the Yugoslav republics, leading UsefulNotes/{{Slovenia}}, UsefulNotes/{{Croatia}}, UsefulNotes/{{Bosnia}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Macedonia}} to secede. The remainder of Yugoslavia [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars retaliated by attacking]] Slovenia and Croatia and supporting Serb nationalists in Bosnia's civil war.

The two remaining republics (Serbia and Montenegro) formed a new state, which was also called Yugoslavia. When violence between local Yugoslav law enforcement and Albanian separatist militias and terrorists in Serbia's troubled province of Kosovo escalated in 1998 into an all-out war, NATO intervened on March 1999 for the second time (the first being NATO's assistance to Bosnia and Croatia in the Bosnian War) on behalf of the Albanians ending the war after a 78 day long bombing campaign of both Serbia and Montenegro. Yugoslavia subsequently lost control of Kosovo, which was still considered to be a Serbian province but was under UN administration.

* Mileva Marić; - Mathematician and UseuflNotes/AlbertEinstein's first wife.

* Creator/StanaKatic Actress - Both parents are Serbs but she was born in Canada

* The plot of ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper_2 Sniper 2]]'' is supposed to take place in [[CaliforniaDoubling the Serbian capital of Belgrade]] with [[CriticalResearchFailure Serbs speaking Hungarian]].
* The "Dragon Shooter" arc of ''Manga/{{Jormungand}}'' takes place in [[BrandX Republic T]], which is so ''obviously'' Serbia (or Republika Srpska, the Serb entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina) it's not even funny. The plot of the arc itself involves Koko's trying to muscle in on the arms market of a local war criminal [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial who is absolutely not a thinly veiled]] {{Expy}} of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Željko_Ražnatovic Željko]] Ražnatović.

* Novak Đoković (''Novak Djokovic'') - Current tennis superstar and one of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATP_Rankings#Current_rankings four players who have battled for #1 on the ATP ranking list]] during the 2010s.

* The J'avo in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' speak Serbian, and most of the enemies in the game have Serbian names.

* Vlade Divac - Former NBA basketball player.

* Novak Đoković (''Novak Djokovic'') - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATP_Rankings#Current_rankings One of the four players who have battled for #1 on the ATP ranking list]] during the 2010s.

* The "Dragon Shooter" arc of ''Manga/{{Jormungand}}'' takes place in [[BrandX Republic T]], which is so ''obviously'' Serbia it's not even funny. The plot of the arc itself involves Koko's trying to muscle in on the arms market of a local war criminal [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial who is absolutely not a thinly veiled]] {{Expy}} of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Željko_Ražnatovic Željko]] Ražnatović.

* UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla - Scientist and inventor.

* Creator/StanaKatic Actress - Serbian but was born in Canada