The unification was not completely recognized, however, and one of the countries which refused to recognize the act was the Kingdom of Serbia.

Bulgaria signed treaties with Serbia to divide the territory of northern Macedonia, but refused any similar agreement with Greece.

In the discussions that led Greece to join the League, Bulgaria refused to commit to any agreement on the distribution of territorial gains, unlike the deal with Serbia over Vardar Macedonia.

In the discussions that led Greece to join the League, Bulgaria refused to commit to any agreement on the distribution of territorial gains, unlike the deal with Serbia over Macedonia.

When Bulgaria called upon Serbia to honor their prewar agreement over northern Macedonia, the Serbs, displeased at being forced by the Great Powers to evacuate Albania, adamantly refused to give up any more territory.

Titoism is a variant of Marxism – Leninism named after Josip Broz Tito, leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, primarily used to describe the specific socialist system built in Yugoslavia after its refusal of the 1948 Resolution of the Cominform, when the Communist Party of Yugoslavia refused to take further dictates from the Soviet Union. Today, Titoism is present in all the countries of the former Yugoslavia, especially in Serbia and Croatia.

On one hand Đinđić basically refused to even acknowledge the national question as a real issue, making not a single mention of the Serbs living outside of Serbia in other parts of former Yugoslavia in his book Yugoslavia: The Unfinished State while on the other he maintained close links with Radovan Karadžić, the war leader of Bosnian Serbs, even visiting him at Pale in February 1994 when American forces threatened to bombard Bosnian Serb positions.

However, the division of the territories ceded to the Balkan League was not addressed in the Treaty, and Serbia refused to carry out the division agreed with Bulgaria in their treaty of March 1912.

Serbia originally refused to allow MOC to be registered as an organization, as all official Orthodox Churches have also refused to recognize the MOC.

The authorities of Serbia have issued an arrest warrant for her on fraud charges which has been circulated via Interpol, but the Russian authorities have refused to arrest her.

Simeon also demanded that his daughter would marry Constantine VII, the son of empress Zoe Karvounopsina, but Zoe refused and allied with Serbia and Hungary against him.

However, Ivan Shishman, reassured by his neighbours that he would receive support and the preparations of Serbia for war, not only refused to let the Ottomans in the city, but also strengthened its walls.

On July 22nd, Germany refused an Austrian request to have the German Minister in Belgrade present the ultimatum to Serbia because as Jagow had said, it would look too much “ as though we were egging Austria on to make war ”.

Jagow refused stating that “ Our standpoint has to be that the quarrel with Serbia is an Austro-Hungarian internal affair .”

The principalities of Romania ( which was also forced by Russia to cede the Budjak region of the Danube delta, in spite of an existing treaty of alliance between the two countries ), Serbia and Montenegro, each of which had had de facto sovereignty for some time, formally proclaimed independence from the Ottoman Empire.

When Romanian troops approached the capital Sofia, Bulgaria asked for an armistice, resulting in the Treaty of Bucharest, in which Bulgaria had to cede portions of its First Balkan War gains to Serbia, Greece, Romania and the Ottomans.

By the autumn of 1739 the Austrians with their Serbian troops had been forced to sign the Treaty of Belgrade which requested the Kingdom of Serbia, the southern part of of the Banat of Temeswar and northern Bosnia to cede to the Ottomans most of the gains made in the wars of 1714-1718, including the Serbian city of Belgrade itself.

This farmland is a part of the Parapannonian Plain stretching into neighbouring Croatia and Serbia.

* The Drina flows through the eastern part of Bosnia, at many places in the border between Bosnia and Serbia.

But after the war, Serbia and Greece revealed their plan to keep part of the promised territory.

As part of the official welcome ceremony of a foreign head of state, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is inspecting a Serbian Armed Forces | Serbian guard of honour | guard of honor escorted by President of Serbia | Serbian President Boris Tadić, on the former's visit to Serbia in 2009.

It is estimated that in the aftermath of World War II between 13 and 16 million ethnic Germans were expelled from the territories of Eastern Germany ( present-day part of Poland ), the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia ( mostly from the Vojvodina region ), the Kaliningrad Oblast ( formerly northern part of East Prussia ) area of Russia, Lithuania, Romania and other East European countries.

It remained under Ottoman control as part of the Rumelia province until 1912, when the first independent Albanian state was declared following the short occupation by Kingdom of Serbia.

* In Serbia, a municipality ( opština ) is part of a district ( okrug )

The Balkans is a peninsula including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and the European part of Turkey.

Despite the controversy, the United Nations proceeded to created a mandate in Kosovo, in which the province technically remained a part of Serbia ( or the FRY as it was then ), but was completely autonomous.

In 2002, Serbia and Montenegro came to a new agreement regarding continued co-operation, which, among other changes, promised the end of the name Yugoslavia, since they were part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

The southern Serbian province of Kosovo, while formally still part of Serbia ( according to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 ), moved toward local autonomy under the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo ( UNMIK ) and was dependent on the international community for financial and technical assistance.

On 1 December 1918 the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs merged with Serbia, becoming part of the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, itself being renamed in 1929 to Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

In 1912 the city was conquered by the Kingdom of Serbia during the Balkan Wars and after the First World War the city became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( Kingdom of Yugoslavia ).

German troops occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as part of Serbia and Slovenia, while other parts of the country were occupied by Bulgaria, Hungary, and Italy.

On 31 January 1946, the new constitution of Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, modeled after the Soviet Union, established six republics, an autonomous province, and an autonomous district that were part of SR Serbia.

* August 16 – The Entente promises the Kingdom of Serbia, should victory be achieved over Austro-Hungary and its allied Central Powers, the territories of Baranja, Srem and Slavonia from the Cisleithanian part of the Dual Monarchy ; Bosnia and Herzegovina ; and eastern Dalmatia ( from the river of Krka to Bar ).

Belgrade proposed that Kosovo be highly autonomous and remain a part of Serbia — Belgrade officials repeatedly said that an imposition of Kosovo's independence would be a violation of Serbia's sovereignty and therefore contrary to international law and the UN Charter.

The Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pasic told Greece it could have Thrace if Greece helped Serbia keep Bulgaria out of Serbian part of Macedonia and the Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos agreed.

The Albanians were unwilling to accept a solution that would retain Kosovo as part of Serbia.

It usually refers to the part of Macedonia region attributed to the Kingdom of Serbia by the Treaty of Bucharest in 1913.

In 1330, Basarab took part in the military campaign Tzar Michael Sishman launched against Serbia, which ended on July 18 with the Serb victory at Velbazhd.

The Ottoman Empire lost the Banat and southeastern Syrmia, central part of present-day Serbia ( from Belgrade to south of Kruševac ), a tiny strip of northern Bosnia and Lesser Wallachia ( Oltenia ) to Austria.

It was formed with the nationalistic aim of uniting all of the territories with significant Serb populations not ruled by Serbia.

They engaged in a bitter power struggle over several issues, such as who would control territories Serbia annexed in the Balkan Wars.

Instead, the Serbian government looked to formerly Serb territories in the south, notably " Old Serbia " ( the Sanjak of Novi Pazar and the province of Kosovo ).

Following the eventual weakening of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans, Serbia, Greece and Bulgaria declared war and sought to aggrandize their respective boundaries on the remaining territories of the Empire.

In the 1430s Murad captured vast territories in the Balkans and succeeded in annexing Serbia in 1439.

With the collapse of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its institutions from 1991 to 1992, the issue of unity of the two republics remaining in the collapsing federation, Serbia, Montenegro, as well as Serb breakaway territories in Croatia and Bosnia that wished to remain united, became an issue.

Students from the following countries and territories are eligible for the scholarships: the Visegrad Group countries ( Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia ), also Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Kosovo, the Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Russia and Ukraine.

* King Stefan Dragutin of Serbia receives Belgrade, Syrmia, and other territories from Hungary, when his son marries the king of Hungary's cousin.

* 1284 – Stefan Dragutin, king of Serbia, receives Belgrade, Syrmia, and other territories from Hungary when his son marries the king of Hungary's cousin.

Thereupon the language, in its Bulgarian dialects, spread to other South-Eastern and Eastern European Slavic territories, most notably to Croatia, Serbia, Bohemia, Lesser Poland, and principalities of the Kievan Rus '.

In the course of the First Balkan War in 1912, the Balkan League, including Serbia, defeated the Ottoman Empire and conquered its European territories, which enabled territorial expansion into Raška and Kosovo.

In the resulting Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria lost most of the territories gained in the First Balkan War, with Serbia annexing Vardar Macedonia.

It included territories of modern-day Southern Serbia ( Moesia Superior ), Northern Republic of Macedonia, Northern Bulgaria, Romanian Dobrudja, Southern Moldova, and Budjak ( Lower Moesia ).

The main problem for supporters of Greece in Russia was that Greece was only one of several issues that were in contention between St Petersburg and the Porte: others included Russia's ambition to impose a protectorate over the Romanian principalities and Serbia, its demands for control of the Principalities ' Black Sea ports, the right of Russian warships to sail through the Bosporus, and Russia's annexation of territories in the Caucasus.

The history of Serbia, as a country, begins with the Slavic settlements in the Balkans, established in the 6th century in territories governed by the Byzantine Empire.

The Entente promised the territories of Srem, Bačka, Baranja, eastern Slavonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and eastern Dalmatia to Serbia as a reward after the war.

# Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated ; occupied territories restored ; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea ; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality ; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into.

Half of Albanian territories are given to neighboring states, the Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of Greece.

A Turkish raiding party, passing unobstructed through territories of Ottoman vassals, broke into Moravian Serbia in 1381.

In addition to the existing Republic of Albania, the term incorporates claims to regions in the neighbouring states, the areas include Kosovo and the Preševo Valley of Serbia, territories in southern Montenegro, northwestern Greece ( Chameria ), and a part of western Republic of Macedonia.

The memorandum was ignored by the congress, which recognised the competing claims of Serbia and Bulgaria to territories surrendered by the Ottoman Empire, and over those of Albanians.