Serbia

Coordinates: 44°N 21°E / 44°N 21°E / 44; 21

Serbia (i/ˈsɜːrbiə/, Serbian: Србија / Srbija, IPA: [sř̩bija]), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија / Republika Srbija), is a sovereign state situated at the crossroads between Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. Serbia is landlocked and borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; Macedonia to the south; and Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro to the west; it also claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. The capital of Serbia, Belgrade, is one of the largest cities in Southeast Europe. Serbia numbers around 7 million residents.

Following the Slavic migrations to the Balkans from the 6th century onwards, Serbs established several states in the early Middle Ages. The Serbian Kingdom obtained recognition by Rome and Constantinople in 1217; it reached its peak in 1346 as a relatively short-lived Serbian Empire. By the mid-16th century, the entire territory of modern-day Serbia was annexed by the Ottoman Empire, at times interrupted by the Habsburgs. In the early 19th century, the Serbian Revolution established the nation-state as the region's first constitutional monarchy, which subsequently expanded its territory. Following disastrous casualties in World War I, and subsequent unification of Habsburg crownland of Vojvodina with Serbia, the country co-founded Yugoslavia with other South Slavic peoples, which would exist in various political formations until the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, which had devastating effects for the region. As a result, Serbia formed a union with Montenegro in 1992, which broke apart in 2006, when Serbia again became an independent country. In 2008 the parliament of Kosovo, Serbia's southern province with an Albanian ethnic majority, declared independence, with mixed responses from the international community.

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Serbia demands that NATO take over policing of northern Kosovo after a deadly shootout

Killeen Daily Herald 26 Sep 2023
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s president demanded Tuesday to have a NATO-led peacekeeping force take over for the national law enforcement agency in northern Kosovo after a daylong shootout between armed Serbs and Kosovar police left one officer and three gunmen dead ... Serbia and Kosovo, its former province, have been at odds for decades....
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Kosovo Serbia Shootout

Beaumont Enterprise 26 Sep 2023
Serbia's president demanded Tuesday to have a NATO-led peacekeeping force take over for the national law ......
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Tensions increase in Kosovo over fatal assault on law enforcement

MENA FN 25 Sep 2023
(MENAFN) Kosovo–s Premier Albin Kurti has blamed Serbia of being behind an assault on law enforcement captains in the north of the breakaway district. Belgrade has denied all the accusations also ... ....
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Police officer killed, 1 injured in Kosovo after clash with local Serbs: Premier

Anadolu Agency 24 Sep 2023
This is the reason why we have been calling for Serbia to stop sponsoring terrorist attacks in the north," Albin Kurti said on X ... "Serbia's sponsorship of violence and terrorism is a gross infringement of both our national security and international law, principles, and values," he said....
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Masked gunmen attack Kosovo police and kill 1 officer in an escalation of tensions with Serbia

Indian Express 24 Sep 2023
Miroslav Lajcak, EU's envoy for the talks, also condemned the \u201chorrific attack\u201d and repeated the call \u201cto return to dialogue immediately\u201d In a statement, the US ambassador in Pristina \u201cstrongly' condemned the orchestrated, violent attacks on the Kosovo ......
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Kosovar police surround a village after gunmen storm a monastery in violence that has killed 4

The Sun Chronicle 24 Sep 2023
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — At least 30 gunmen killed a Kosovar Albanian police officer then stormed an Orthodox monastery in Kosovo near its border with Serbia, setting off ongoing gunbattles that have left three assailants dead and raised tensions between the two former wartime foes as they seek to normalize ties....
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Kosovar police surround a village after Serb gunmen storm a monastery in violence that has ...

The Philadelphia Tribune 24 Sep 2023
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Dozens of Serb gunmen dressed in combat uniforms killed a Kosovar Albanian police officer then stormed an Orthodox monastery in Kosovo near its border with Serbia, setting off gunbattles that left three assailants dead and further raised tensions between the two former wartime foes as they seek to normalize ties....
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Kosovo police officer killed, 1 wounded in attack, raising tensions with Serbia

Stars and Stripes 24 Sep 2023
PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo’s prime minister on Sunday said one police officer was killed and another wounded in an attack he blamed on support from neighboring Serbia, increasing tensions between the two former war foes at a delicate moment in their European Union-facilitated dialogue to normalize ties....
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1 Kosovo police officer killed and 1 wounded in an attack in the north, raising ...

News-Press Now 24 Sep 2023
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s prime minister on Sunday said one police officer was killed and another wounded in an attack he blamed on support from neighboring Serbia, increasing tensions between the two former war foes at a delicate moment in their European Union-facilitated dialogue to normalize ties....
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Serbian president blasts West's double standards in int'l relations

China.dot.org 22 Sep 2023
I, as the president of Serbia, supported that with unhidden jubilance," he said ... NATO said that the issue of Kosovo is a democratic issue and that it would be resolved in accordance with the UN Charter and other international law documents ... "But when we ask them (the West) about the territorial integrity of the Republic of Serbia ......
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EU slams Kosovo, Serbia for not taking steps to lower tensions

Anadolu Agency 19 Sep 2023
The EU on Tuesday deplored Kosovo and Serbia for not taking steps to diffuse tensions and warned of sanctions if Belgrade and Pristina continue to escalate instead of normalizing relations in line with the deal brokered by the bloc ... Serbia, however, still considers Kosovo its territory....
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'It's Like The Army': Strict Rules For Workers At Chinese Mining Company In Serbia Spark Backlash

Radio Free Europe 18 Sep 2023
BELGRADE -- Strict new rules enforced at a Chinese-operated mine in eastern Serbia have sparked controversy and pushback in the Balkan country over concerns that the company is violating local labor laws....

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