The Republic of Serbia is a parliamentary democracy. Its main institutions are the president, government and parliament, as well as the judiciary. The office of President has, on the one hand, representative functions, roughly comparable to that of the German Federal President. The president dissolves parliament, orders the formation of a government and ratifies laws…
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Serbia Ethnic Disintegration and Yugoslav wars
In the midst of the solidification of the socialist system and the advancing economic crisis in the mid-1980’s, Slobodan Milošević, the young and energetic chairman of the capital Belgrade, was elected the new chairman of the Serbian communists in 1987, and two years later he was also the President of the Republic of Serbia. A…
Serbia Recent History – World War II and socialist Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia is occupied by Axis forces from Germany, Italy, Bulgaria and Hungary. In Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Nazi regime established the quisling state NDH – Free State of Croatia under the formal leadership of the extremist Croatian splinter group Ustascha. In Serbia, which is occupied by German and Bulgarian troops, there is a fascist quisling…
Serbia Early History
Middle Ages, Ottoman rule Serbia’s medieval history was marked by the establishment of a Serbian kingdom and the subsequent fall under Ottoman rule, which would last into the 19th century. In the 6th century, Slavic peoples, coming from the north, settled on the area of today’s Serbia, which at that time belonged to Byzantium, the…
Serbia Transportation
With a population density of 91 residents per km² (2017), Serbia is one of the more densely populated countries in Europe. The population density varies greatly from region to region. It is lowest in rural regions of southwest and southeast Serbia. The metropolitan area of the capital Belgrade has the greatest density. Of the almost…
Serbia Geography
Serbia is in the heart of the Balkans. The country is on the way to modernization, democratic transformation and (re) integration into Europe. It is struggling with the historical legacy of its central role in the violent collapse of socialist Yugoslavia in the 1990’s. Basic data Name: Republika Srbija (Republic of Serbia – SR /…
Serbia Arts and Literature
Literature The Serbs adopted the Orthodox faith at the end of the 8th century and became involved early in the Kyrgyz literature. In the fence of the Nemanjiids (compare Nemanjić) state formation and an independent church were created in the 13th and 13th centuries the conditions for a literary flourishing in Serbian Kyrgyzstan. The literary…