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5 days ago · Serbia, country in the west-central Balkans. For most of the 20th century, it was a part of Yugoslavia. The capital of Serbia is Belgrade, a cosmopolitan city at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers. Serbia’s second city, Novi Sad, a cultural and educational center, lies upstream on the Danube.
2 days ago · Failure of Khan Presian I to take over Serbia. Bulgarian-Serbian War (853) Principality of Serbia. Bulgarian Empire. Victory. Failure of the Bulgarians to replace the Byzantine overlordship on the Serbs. Vladimir-Rasate and 12 Boyars taken prisoner. Bulgarian–Serbian wars of 917–924. Principality of Serbia.
5 days ago · In Serbia there is only a single timezone at UTC+2. For example, New York is currently at UTC-4 in Eastern Time, so the time difference between New York and Serbia is six hours. They have a nationwide clock change from standard time to daylight saving time, where the clocks are switched forward by one hour in summer.
4 days ago · An ensign used by British naval and merchant ships, the Red Ensign is the British flag initially favored by the colonists, and all designs of American flags descended from this banner. First used by George Washington on January 1, 1776, this modification of the British Red Ensign became in effect the first national flag of the United States.
2 days ago · The Entente, or the Allies, were an international military coalition of countries led by France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Italy, and Japan against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918). By the end of the first decade of the 20th century, the major ...
4 days ago · Serbia and Montenegro (Serbian: Cрбија и Црна Гора, Srbija i Crna Gora), known until 2003 as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbian: Савезна Република Југославија, Savezna Republika Jugoslavija), FR Yugoslavia (FRY) or simply Yugoslavia (Serbian: Југославија, Jugoslavija), was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that ...
2 days ago · World War I, an international conflict that in 1914–18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the United States, the Middle East, and other regions. The war pitted the Central Powers —mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey —against the Allies—mainly France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, from 1917 ...
