● Capital: Belgrad
● Language: Serbian (alphabets: Latin + Cyrillic)
● Currency: Dinar (1 Dinar 0,0085 Euro in 3/2019)
● Population: 7 million, 90 per km² (2018)
● Surface: 77 484 km²
(Image: Flag of Serbia; source: Pixabay)
In the 12th century the Slavs founded their first state in Serbia. In the following centuries foreign powers ruled over it, like the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy or the Ottoman empire. At the end of the 19th century the Kingdom of Serbia was declared. After World War I Serbia became a part of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia breaks down into individual states, which, from 1991 onwards, have declared independence, leading to wars in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.
From 2003 to 2006 there was the federation of Serbia-Montenegro, then the Republic of Serbia was founded. 1998/99 there was the Kosovo War, in 2008 the Kosovo declared its independence of Serbia.
(Image: Ortodox church in Serbia; source: Pixabay)
The length of the Danube in Serbia is 588 km, its width ranges from 150 m to 7 km. At the „Iron Gates“ the power of the Danube is most striking.
(Image: Danube at the Iron Gates; source: Pixabay)
Geography: : 5 national parks, 20 natural reserves and 590 protected areas, raspberry plantations
Famous people: Emperor Konstantin the Great (4th century), Robert Zollitsch (Archbishop)
(Image: raspberries; source: Pixabay)
