Republic of Serbia

COAT OF ARMS
Official name: Republic of
Serbia
Population: 7.5 million
Area: 88 000 km
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Capital: Belgrade
Other big cities: Novi Sad, Ni,
Kragujevac, Subotica
Anthem: God of justice (
)
Currency: Serbian dinar (RSD)
Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia
(Serbian Cyrillic: ),
is a country located at the crossroads
of 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 to border Albania
through the disputed territory of
Kosovo. The capital of Serbia,
Belgrade, is among Europe's oldest
cities and one of the largest in
Southeast Europe.
BELGRADE
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located
at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the
Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. Its name translates to
White city. The city has a population of 1.23 million, while
over 1.65 million people live in its metro area (which
encompass administrative limits of City of Belgrade)
Belgrade lies 116.75 metres (383.0 ft) above sea level and is
located at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers.
The historical core of Belgrade, Kalemegdan, lies on the right
banks of both rivers. Since the 19th century, the city has been
expanding to the south and east; after World War II, Novi
Beograd (New Belgrade) was built on the left bank of the
Sava river, connecting Belgrade with Zemun. Smaller, chiefly
residential communities across the Danube, like Krnjaa,
Kote and Bora, also merged with the city, while Panevo,
a heavily industrialized satellite city, remains a separate town.
The city has an urban area of 360 square kilometres (140 sq
mi), while together with its metropolitan area it covers 3,223
km
2
(1,244 sq mi). Throughout history, Belgrade has been a
crossroads between the West and the Orient.
NIGHTLIFE IN BELGRADE
Belgrade's nightlife is well and truly awake and in
this city you can have a lot of fun. Belgrade has a
reputation for its nightlife, and with good reason.
Unlike in other parts of Europe, there is no day of
the week in Belgrade when you cannot have a
night out. This is true whatever your age,
whatever your lifestyle and however much you
want to spend!
In Belgrade every day is treated like Friday -
people think nothing of clubbing through the
night and going straight into work the next
morning. That may sound unimaginably
hedonistic to people from a nation where almost
everything shuts at 11pm, but Belgrade's all-night
bars and clubs and very cheap booze. Serbs
never go out before midnight to nightclubs, so
your evening should start in one of the trendy bars
or restaurants!

TOWN OF NOVI SAD
Novi Sad is the second largest city
in Serbia, the administrative seat
of the province of Vojvodina and
of the South Baka District.
It is located in the southern part
of Pannonian Plain, on the border
of the Baka and Srem regions,
on the banks of the Danube river,
facing the northern slopes of
Fruka Gora mountain.
The city was founded in 1694, when Serb merchants formed a colony across the Danube
from the Petrovaradin fortress, a Habsburg strategic military post. In the 18th and 19th
centuries, it became an important trading and manufacturing centre, as well as a centre of
Serbian culture of that period, earning the nickname Serbian Athens. The city was heavily
devastated in the 1848 Revolution, but it was subsequently restored. Today, Novi Sad is an
industrial and financial centre of the Serbian economy, as well as a major cultural center.
The Matica Srpska (Serbian Cyrillic: ) is the oldest cultural-scientific institution
of Serbia. Matica Srpska was founded in 1826, in Ofenpesth (Budapest), and moved to Novi
Sad in 1864.
Of all the Slavic maticas, Matica Srpska was the first to be established in the Habsburg
Empire on the ancestral territory of the Rascians (better known as Rascia) at the time of
a Serb national and cultural awakening, while under Habsburg and Ottoman thralldom.
The word matica in Serbian, in this case, means "queen bee", implying this organization's role
as a queen bee and its purpose of breeding more workers for the Serb cultural hive; this is
similar to the meaning of today's matrix organization. It spawned the concept of Matica in
other Slavic countries.

SERBIAN CUISINE
Serbian cuisine is a heterogeneous cuisine, sharing
characteristics of the Balkans(especially former
Yugoslavia),
the Mediterranean (especially Greek), Turkish,
and Central European (especially Austrian and
Hungarian) cuisines.
The national dishes include pljeskavica (a ground beef
patty), evapi (grilled minced meat), and sarma. The
national drink is the plum brandy ljivovica.
Serbian food is characterized not only of elements from
Serbia, but of elements from the former-Yugoslavia as a
whole. Peasantry has greatly influenced the cooking
process. During the centuries under Ottoman rule, the
Balkans were influenced by the rich oriental cuisine and
some of the most traditional Serbian dishes have
common roots with those of Greece and Turkey.
Centuries of Austrian and Austro-Hungarian rule richly
influenced Serbian cuisine, especially Serbian desserts.
In recent times, the Serbian diaspora has spread the
cuisine across the world.

FAMOUS SERBS
NIKOLA TESLA Nikola Tesla was a Serbian inventor, electrical
engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his
contributions to the design of the modern alternating
current (AC)electricity supply system.
[6]

Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering
before immigrating to the United States in 1884 to work for Thomas
Edison in New York City. He soon struck out on his own with
financial backers, setting up laboratories and companies to
develop a range of electrical devices. His patented AC induction
motor and transformer were licensed by George Westinghouse,
who also hired Tesla for a short time as a consultant. His work in the
formative years of electric power development was also involved
in the corporate struggle between making alternating current
or direct current the power transmission standard, referred to as
the war of currents. Tesla went on to pursue his ideas of wireless
lighting and electricity distribution in his high-voltage, high-
frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs
and made early (1893) pronouncements on the possibility of
wireless communication with his devices. He tried to put these
ideas to practical use in his ill-fated attempt at intercontinental
wireless transmission.

MIHAJLO PUPIN
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Ph.D., LL.D. also known
as Michael I. Pupin, was
a Serbian physicist and physical chemist.
Pupin is best known for his numerous patents,
including a means of greatly extending the
range of long
distance telephone communication by
placing loading coils (of wire) at
predetermined intervals along
the transmitting wire (known as "pupinization").
Pupin was a founding member of National
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
on March 3, 1915, which later became NASA.
IVO ANDRI
Ivan "Ivo" Andri (9 October 1892 13 March 1975) was
a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and the 1961
winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His writings dealt
mainly with life in his native Bosnia under the Ottoman
Empire.
The material for his works was mainly drawn from
the history, folklore, and culture of his native Bosnia.
The Bridge on the Drina
Bosnian Chronicle

(a.k.a. Travnik Chronicle)
The Woman from Sarajevo

Those were all released in 1945 and written
during World War II while Andri was living quietly in
Belgrade. They are often referred to as the"Bosnian
trilogy" as they were released simultaneously and had
been written in the same period. However, they are
connected only thematicallythey are indeed three
completely different works.




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