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On this day (July 28th) in 1918, upon the advice of his good friend Mihajlo Pupin, President Woodrow Wilson gave the order to fly the flag of Serbia over the White House. This was one of a number of acts that reflected the solidarity of Americans with the Serbian people who suffered so tremendously during the First World War.
The Ottoman sultan officially recognized the Serbian flag in 1835 and also in 1869; the country became independent in 1878. In 1882 Serbia established a state flag consisting of the red-blue-white tricolour with the royal Serbian coat of arms.
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There was the Serbian flag floating over the President’s House in the United States of America. What did it mean?… the meaning of the Serbian flag up there beside the Stars and Stripes …is the meaning of the alliance within our borders of the three and thirty alien groups who are helping us win Democracy for their brothers overseas. Download the do...
“It is fitting that the people of the United States, dedicated to the self-evident truth that it is the right of the people of all nations, small as well as great, to live their own lives and choose their own Government, and remembering that the principles for which Serbia has so nobly fought and suffered are those for which United States is fighti...
“Serbia Day at Ellipse” “Washington, with the rest of the nation, will tomorrow observe “Serbia Day,” the fourth anniversary of that nation’s heroic refusal to submit to the arrogant demands of Austria-Hungary. There will be a great public gathering on the Ellipse at 5 o’clock tomorrow. The Serbian Minister is expected to be present and may speak. ...
Jun 21, 2016 · On July 28th 1918, the 4th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, Serbian flag flew above the White House and all public buildings in American capital by the order of President Woodrow Wilson.
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.
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Under the Nemanjić dynasty, which was to rule the Serb lands for the next 200 years, a powerful state emerged to dominate the entire Balkan Peninsula. It was founded, in part, on the ability and administrative capacity of its rulers and also on the establishment of a link between church and state.
On February 3, 1882, the Serbian Parliament adopted a contract and Convention of diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Serbia and the United States, given by King Milan Obrenović. The United States Senate adopted both documents on July 5, 1882 without debate or amendments.