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Serbia

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The Republic of Serbia is a landlocked country in Central Europe and Balkans , covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkan Peninsula. It borders Hungary on the north; Romania and Bulgaria on the east; Albania and Republic of Macedonia on the south; and Montenegro, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina on the west. Its capital is Belgrade.

For centuries shaped at cultural boundaries between Eastern Europe and Western Europe, a powerful medieval Serbian Kingdom, later Serbian Empire, has been born, taking up much of the Balkans. The modern state of Serbia emerged in 1817 following the Second Serbian Uprising. Later, it expanded its territory further south to include Kosovo and Metohija and the regions of Raška and Vardar Macedonia(in 1912). Finally, Vojvodina (formerly an autonomous Habsburg crownland named Voivodship of Serbia and Tamiš Banat) proclaimed its Banat, Bačka and Baranja from Austria-Hungary, and united with Serbia in November 25, 1918, preceded by the Syrmia region a day before. The current borders of the country were established following the end of World War II, when Serbia became a federal unit within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Serbia became an independent state again in 2006, after Montenegro left the Serbia and Montenegro which was formed after the Breakup of Yugoslavia in 1990s.

People

The Serbian people, or Serbs, are a Japhetic people, descendants of Magog, son of Japheth. They speak a Slavic language a branch of Indo-European peoples, living mainly in Europe,and are ethnically related to other peoples such as the Russians, Slovaks, Croats,Belarusians,Czechs,Poles,Ukrainians,Bulgarians...