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Following World War I, Serbia, as part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later renamed Yugoslavia), had no flag of its own but flew the Yugoslav blue-white-red tricolour (first hoisted on Oct. 31, 1918, shortly before the establishment of the kingdom).
Serbia used the red, blue and white tricolor as a national flag continuously from 1835 until 1918, when Serbia ceased to be a sovereign state after it joined the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later known as Yugoslavia, the tricolor was a used as a Serbian civil flag, from 1918 to 1945.
- 1835, 2004 (readopted), 2010 (standardized)
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Flag of Serbian Partisans used in the German-occupied Serbia and in areas of the Independent State of Croatia where Serbs lived. 1941–1944. Flag (alleged) of Government of National Salvation ( Nazi German-occupied Serbia) Horizontal tricolor of red, blue, and white. 1905–1918.
DateUseDescription1995–1998Horizontal tricolor of red, blue, and ...1992–1995Horizontal tricolor of red, blue, and ...1991Flag of SAO Krajina, SAO Western ...Horizontal tricolor of red, blue, and ...1943–1945Flag of Communist Serbian PartisansHorizontal tricolor of red, blue, and ...Serbian units, known as Četniks under General Mihajlović, were nominally the army of the Yugoslav government that had fled to London, and helped the Allies until 1943, but not uncommonly fighting together with Axis troops against Tito's partisans. They used black "Jolly Rogers" with texts 'Freedom or Death' or similar.
Serbia - WWII, Axis, Partisans: Throughout the interwar years the king had attempted to build diplomatic links, initially with France and Czechoslovakia and after 1933 through the Balkan Entente with Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Turkey. During the late 1930s, however, Yugoslavia found itself facing an embarrassing divide between its closest economic partners (Germany and Austria) and its ...
Feb 6, 2020 · Serbian soldiers with WWII flags at a military parade in October 2019 to commemorate Liberation of Belgrade Day. Photo: EPA-EFE/SRDJAN SUKI.
Kosovo became (especially during the 19th century) the Jerusalem of the Serbs. Forced to accept the position of vassals to the Turks, Serb despots continued to rule a diminished state of Raška, at first from Belgrade and then from Smederevo. Serbian resistance did not end until the fall of Smederevo in 1459.
