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The term Greater Serbia or Great Serbia (Serbian: Велика Србија, romanized: Velika Srbija) describes the Serbian nationalist and irredentist ideology of the creation of a Serb state which would incorporate all regions of traditional significance to Serbs, a South Slavic ethnic group, including regions outside modern-day Serbia that ...
Serbia is a net exporter of electricity and importer of key fuels (such as oil and gas). Serbia has an abundance of coal, and significant reserves of oil and gas. Serbia's proven reserves of 5.5 billion tonnes of coal lignite are the fifth largest in the world (second in Europe, after Germany). [335] [336]
Serbia is a member state of numerous international organizations: UN, ICC, IMF, WB, OSCE, CoE, BSEC, PfP, CEFTA, SECI, CEI. Serbia applied to join the European Union (EU) in 2009 and has been a candidate for membership since 2012, along with nine other states. Serbia is the largest country in Southeast Europe seeking entry into the EU. [8] [9]
Monument to Karađorđe and Church of Saint Sava in Belgrade. Serbian nationalism asserts that Serbs are a nation and promotes the cultural and political unity of Serbs. [1] It is an ethnic nationalism, [1] originally arising in the context of the general rise of nationalism in the Balkans under Ottoman rule, under the influence of Serbian linguist Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and Serbian ...
Serbia is the nation state of the Serbs, who are Serbia's dominant ethnic group.Serbs are also dominant in Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.In the 19th century, the Serbian national identity was manifested, with awareness of history and tradition, medieval heritage, cultural unity, despite Serbs living under different empires.
League of Communists of Serbia (1945–1990) League of Communists of Vojvodina (1945–1990) League of Communists of Yugoslavia in Serbia (1998–2010) Liberals (1883–1895) Liberal Party/Liberal Democratic Party (1989–2010) New Democracy/Liberals of Serbia (1990–2010) Movement of Workers and Peasants (2011–2014) Natural Law Party (1992 ...
The Danube flows 588 km through Serbia or as a border river (with Croatia in the northwest and Romania in the southeast). Other chief rivers in Serbia are tributaries of the Danube including the Sava (flowing from the west), Tisa (flowing from the north), Drina (flowing from the south, forming a natural border with Bosnia and Herzegovina), and ...
Serbia was a predominately agrarian society with most Serbs living in an extended family unit known as the zadruga. [14] Serbia had one of the highest birthrates in Europe with the population increasing by 71.3% between 1880-1914. [14]