Serbia — Србија — Srbija
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Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain . It borders Hungary to the north, Romania to the northeast, Bulgaria to the southeast, North Macedonia to the south, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the west, and Montenegro to the southwest. Serbia claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo . Serbia has about 6.6 million inhabitants, excluding Kosovo. Its capital Belgrade is also the largest city .
Continuously inhabited since the Paleolithic Age, the territory of modern-day Serbia faced Slavic migrations in the 6th century, establishing several regional states in the early Middle Ages at times recognised as tributaries to the Byzantine , Frankish and Hungarian kingdoms. The Serbian Kingdom obtained recognition by the Holy See and Constantinople in 1217, reaching its territorial apex in 1346 as the Serbian Empire . By the mid-16th century, the Ottomans annexed the entirety of modern-day Serbia; their rule was at times interrupted by the Habsburg Empire , which began expanding towards Central Serbia from the end of the 17th century while maintaining a foothold in Vojvodina . In the early 19th century, the Serbian Revolution established the nation-state as the region's first constitutional monarchy , which subsequently expanded its territory. In 1918, in the aftermath of World War I , the Kingdom of Serbia united with the former Habsburg crownland of Vojvodina ; later in the same year it joined with other South Slavic nations in the foundation of Yugoslavia , which existed in various political formations until the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. During the breakup of Yugoslavia , Serbia formed a union with Montenegro , which was peacefully dissolved in 2006, restoring Serbia's independence as a sovereign state for the first time since 1918. In 2008, representatives of the Assembly of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence , with mixed responses from the international community while Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory .
Serbia is an upper-middle income economy , ranked "very high" in the Human Development Index domain. It is a unitary parliamentary constitutional republic , member of the UN , CoE , OSCE , PfP , BSEC , CEFTA , and is acceding to the WTO . Since 2014, the country has been negotiating its EU accession , with the possibility of joining the European Union by 2030. Serbia formally adheres to the policy of military neutrality . The country provides universal health care and free primary and secondary education to its citizens. (Full article... )
The Church of the Holy Mother of God (Serbian : Црква Свeте Богородице / Crkva Svete Bogorodice ; Bulgarian : Църква „Света Богородица“ , Tsarkva „Sveta Bogoroditsa“ ) is a medieval Eastern Orthodox church in the village of Donja Kamenica in Knjaževac Municipality, Zaječar District , eastern Serbia . The church is generally considered to have been built in the 14th century, when this area was part of the Second Bulgarian Empire 's Vidin appanage , though alternative datings have been proposed.
While small, the Church of the Holy Mother of God is notable for its unusual architectural style, in particular for its high
narthex flanked by two sharp-pointed towers. These features, which hint at
Hungarian or
Transylvanian influences, are highly atypical for medieval Bulgarian church architecture. The church is richly decorated on the inside, with as many as eleven frescoes of historical figures. One of these portraits, captioned as a
despot , is variously identified as
an eponymous son of
Bulgarian tsar Michael Shishman or as an undocumented son of co-tsar
Michael Asen IV ; earlier speculation that the image depicted Serbian noble
Mihailo Anđelović or Michael Shishman himself have since fallen out of favor with art historians. In addition to these early portraits, the interior walls of the church were painted with canonical murals, which can stylistically be assigned to the 14th–15th century. The church was reconstructed in 1958 and has been under Serbian state protection since 1982. (
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Population statistics of Serbia (2011 census)
Serbia 7,186,862
Belgrade region 1,659,440
Vojvodina region 1,931,809
Šumadija and West Serbia region 2,031,697
South and East Serbia region 1,563,916
Kosovo and Metohija n/a
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Largest cities of Serbia (2011 census)
Belgrade - 1,731,425
Novi Sad - 335,701
Niš - 257,867
Kragujevac - 177,468
Leskovac - 143,962
Subotica - 140,358
Kruševac - 127,429
Kraljevo - 124,554
Zrenjanin - 122,714
Pančevo - 122,252
Šabac - 115,347
Čačak - 114,809
Smederevo - 107,528
Sombor - 97,263
Valjevo - 95,631
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