An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August – November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence

* 1941 – World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.

) expanded its occupied area and linked up with the Serbian army to the northwest, while its main forces turned east towards Kavala, reaching the Bulgarians.

After a failed Ottoman counter-attack in the Western-Thracian front, Bulgarian forces with the help of the Serbian Army managed to conquer Adrianople while Greek forces managed to take Ioannina after defeating the Ottomans in the battle of Bizani.

The city fell to the Serbian forces on 18 November 1991 and the Vukovar massacre occurred.

In Europe, British-based Barnett International supplied crossbows to Serbian forces which according to The Guardian were later used " in ambushes and as a counter-sniper weapon ", against the Kosovo Liberation Army during the Kosovo War in the areas of Pec and Djakovica, south west of Kosovo.

Princip planned to join the komite, an irregular Serbian guerrilla forces committee of the secret society Unification or Death ( Ujedinjenje ili Smrt ), known as Black Hand.

First the Ottomans won at 1371 on the Maritsa River — where the Serb forces were led by the King Vukasin Mrnjavcevic, the father of Prince Marko and the co-ruler of the last emperor from the Serbian Nemanjic dynasty.

After World War I, Albania was still under the occupation of Serbian and Italian forces.

* 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.

* 1913 – Second Balkan War: Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin ; the siege is later called off when the war ends.

Around 40 % of mosques were destroyed in 1998-99, and 140 Orthodox churches were reported to have been destroyed or damaged in the six weeks after the withdrawal of Serbian forces, and around 30 in another outburst of violence in 2004.

This suspicion was based on the presence of Serbian ultra-nationalist and former paramilitary Vojislav Šešelj being Prime Minister of Yugoslavia ; a fear of a repeat of atrocities similar to those committed by Serb forces in Bosnia ; and suspicion of Milošević's influence in the previous war atrocities.

NATO began an air campaign called Operation Allied Force against Yugoslav military forces and positions and suspected Serbian paramilitaries.

Some of the worst massacres against civilian Albanians by Serbian forces occurred after NATO started its bombing of Yugoslavia.

The Serbia and Montenegro Forces ( 1992-2006 ) ( Serbian: Vojska Srbije i Crna Gore, VSCG ; Војска Србије и Црне Горе, ВСЦГ ) were the armed forces of the Serbia and Montenegro.

* March 27 – Kosovo War: A U. S. F-117 Nighthawk is shot down by Serbian forces.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

* August 4 – Croatian forces launch Operation Storm against Serbian forces in Krajina, with the cooperation of the ARBiH, and force them to withdraw to central Bosnia and Herzegovina.

* August 7 – Operation Storm ends with a UN-brokered ceasefire ; remaining Serbian forces start surrendering.

* September 18 – Battle of Savra: Serbian forces under Balša II and Ivaniš Mrnjavčević are defeated by Ottoman commander Hayreddin Pasha near Berat.

* Ottoman forces overrun the last domains of Constantine II of Bulgaria, who dies in exile at the Serbian court ; end of the Bulgarian Empire.

The Serbian and the Greek forces were initially on the retreat on the western border, but soon took the upper hand and forced Bulgaria to retreat.

Cuska massacre, Podujevo massacre, were some of the massacres committed by the Serbian police and paramilitaries during the war.

Oradour-sur-Glane was not the only collective punishment reprisal action committed by the Waffen SS: other well-documented examples include the French towns of Tulle, Ascq, Maillé, Robert-Espagne, and Clermont-en-Argonne ; Polish villages Michniów, Wanaty and Krasowo-Częstki ; the Soviet village of Kortelisy ( in what is now Ukraine ); Lithuanian village of Pirčiupiai ; the Czechoslovakian villages of Ležáky and Lidice ( in what is now the Czech Republic ); the Greek towns of Kalavryta and Distomo ; the Dutch town of Putten ; Serbian towns of Kragujevac and Kraljevo ; Norwegian village of Telavåg ; and the Italian villages of Sant ' Anna di Stazzema and Marzabotto.

An essential element of Milošević's grasp on power was his control of the Serbian police, a heavily armed force of some 100, 000 that was responsible for internal security and which committed serious human rights abuses.

He gained a reputation for being a strong Serbian partisan, most controversially denying that Serbian paramilitaries and the Yugoslav National Army had committed atrocities in the breakaway republic of Croatia.

A series of massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars were committed by the Serbian and Montenegrin Army.

Severe ethnic conflict occurred during World War II during which the Croatian Ustase movement committed genocide against Serbs, while the Serbian Chetnik movement responded with reprisals against Croats as well as murdering Bosniaks.

Category: Serbian politicians who committed suicide

The Gospić massacre was one of the war crimes committed by Croatian military against the Serbian civilians.

During the Kosovo war, Serbian state media denied Vučitrn massacre and Gornje Obrinje massacre, both committed by the Serbian Police on 26 September 1998.

A Serbian television report described the BBC accounts of atrocities committed by Serbian police in Kosovo as " lies and manipulation ".

Croatia also indicted a number of Serbs for war crimes committed in Vukovar and in December 2005 a Serbian court convicted fourteen former paramilitaries for their involvement in the hospital massacre.

In 2011 a Serbian court indicted more than 40 Croatians for alleged war crimes committed in Vukovar, but an earlier indictment against a Croatian soldier was dropped because of irregularities in the investigation.

English and Serbo-Croatian each have two major variants ( British and American English, and Serbian and Croatian, respectively ), along with numerous other varieties.

However Matthew Kantacouzenos asked his father, Byzantine Emperor John Kantacouzenos VI for help and 10, 000 Ottoman Turks showed up at Demotika in October 1352 and engaged the forces of John V's Serbian allies in an open field battle which resulted in the destruction of the allies and a victory for the more numerous Turks in the service of the Byzantines.

Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan the Mighty ( r. 1331-1355 ) was succeeded by his son Stefan Uroš V ( r. 1355-1371 ) whose reign was characterized by decline of central power and rise of numerous virtually independent principalities ; this period is known as the fall of the Serbian Empire.

Eventually, the Serbian Despotate would, on numerous occasions, attempt to defeat the Ottomans in conjunction with the Hungarians until its final defeat in 1459 and again in 1540.

In the second half of the 19th century, German population became more numerous than Serbian.

During the Serbian Revolution ( 1804 – 1817 ), when Serbs began their uprising against the centuries-long Ottoman rule, Jagodina was a scene of numerous battles, given the town's strategic importance within Serbia proper.

As Žiča was seat of Serbian archbishop Peć came under direct rule of Serbian archbishops and latter patriarchs who built their residences and numerous churches in the city starting with the church of Holy Apostles built by archbishop Saint Arsenije I Sremac.

The city has numerous traditional Serbian cuisine as well as international cuisine restaurants and many cafes and bars.

Branković also imprisoned Hunyadi for a time in the dungeons of the fortress of Smederevo, but he was ransomed by his countrymen and, after resolving his differences with his powerful and numerous political enemies in Hungary, led a punitive expedition against the Serbian prince, who was forced to accept harsh terms of peace.

More important, numerous Serbian Orthodox shrines, including the patriarchate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, are located in Kosovo.

Pranjković himself has stated in numerous cases ( for instance in the language and culture paper Vijenac, to which he contributes regularly ) that " Ćorić ( an opponent in a debate ) does not, of course, agree with the contention I've stated at the beginning of my text, that Croatian and Serbian standard language, as far as they exist, function as separate standard languages ".

Some of these were German-made by various contractors other than Mauser, including the M1910 Serbian in 7x57mm, M1902 Mexican in 7x57mm, M1903 Turkish in 7. 65x53mm, M1909 Argentine in 7. 65x53mm, Steyr M1912 Chilean in 7x57mm, M1908 Brazilian in 7x57mm, and numerous others.

In 1915, as an unknown Serbian monk, he toured most of the major U. S. cities, where he held numerous lectures, fighting for the union of the Serbs and South Slavic peoples.

Ironically: the same people who were, for decades, stigmatised as ultra-Croatian " linguistic nationalists " ( Stjepan Babić, Dalibor Brozović, Radoslav Katičić, Miro Kačić ) have been accused as pro-Serbian " political linguists " simply because they opposed these " language purges " that wanted to kick out numerous words of Church Slavonic origin ( which are common not only to Croatian and Serbian, but are also present in Polish, Russian, Czech and other Slavic languages ).

Veselin Čajkanović concluded that the cthonic character of Dabog in Serbian folklore fits very nicely with the solar Dažbog mentioned in Russian sources, pointing out that in numerous mythologies, solar deities tend to have double aspects, one benevolent, associated with the Sun during the day, and the other malevolent, associated with night, when the Sun is trapped in the underworld.

According to Herr Fric, the Serbian rebels were " extremely numerous, and in some cases well armed " and were divided among following troops and bands:

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries numerous bands, both military and civilian, contributed to the development of music culture in Belgrade and other Serbian cities and towns.

Built in a traditional style, it hosts numerous records and monuments from Ottoman Rule and the ' Serbian Liberation wars ' period.

Mladen was not popular in Bosnia and had fought bloody but losing wars against the Serbian Kingdom ( under Stephen Uroš II Milutin ), and the Venetians ( to whom he lost Zadar in 1313 ), along with numerous internal opponents of his regime.

He was a recipient of numerous awards and is an academician with both Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

After numerous rebellions of Serbian Chetniks and Yugoslav Partisans, Metohija was liberated in 1944.

Serbian trading card game Izvori Magije has numerous cards of drekavac type, one of them named Drekavac iz Vira ( meaning " Drekavac from the whirlpool ").