Babić's administration announced the creation of a Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Krajina ( or SAO Krajina ) on 21 December 1990.

In the aftermath of World War I, the Banat region was divided between the Kingdom of Romania and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and Timișoara came under Romanian administration after Serbian occupation between 1918-1919.

Although Serbian language authorities have recognized the official status for both scripts in contemporary standard Serbian language for more than half of a century now, due to historical reasons, Cyrillic was made the official script of Serbia's administration by the 2006 Constitution.

In 1848 / 1849, Pančevo was part of the Serbian Voivodship, a Serb autonomous region within Austrian Empire, but in 1849 it was returned under administration of the Military Frontier.

During the Revolution of 1848-1849, Zemun was one of the de facto capitals of Serbian Vojvodina, a Serbian autonomous region within Habsburg Empire, but in 1849, it was returned under the administration of the Military Frontier.

From November 1918 to March 1919, western and central parts of Banat were governed by Serbian administration from Novi Sad, as part of the Banat, Bačka and Baranja province of the Kingdom of Serbia and newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( which was later renamed to Yugoslavia ).

According to Serbian historians, medieval Vršac was founded and inhabited by Serbs in 1425, although it was under administration of the Kingdom of Hungary.

This has taken place largely due to the administration of the current mayor, Zdravko Krsmanović, who has taken a pointed stance of opposition to much of the Serbian nationalist establishment within the Republika Srpska.

Babić's administration in Knin then announced the creation of a Serbian Autonomous District ( Српска аутономна област, САО, Srpska autonomna oblast, SAO ) of Krajina on December 21, 1990 and on April 1, 1991, declared that it would secede from Croatia to join Serbia.

However, the Serbs in Vojvodina ( including the Banat, Bačka, and Baranja regions ) objected to this and formed their own administration under the supreme authority of the Serbian National Board in Novi Sad.

Babić's administration announced the creation of a Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Krajina ( or SAO Krajina ) on 21 December 1990.

Following this capitulation, Slavs from Banat, Bačka and Baranja organized new civil administration in these regions as well as their own military units known as People's Guard ( Serbian: Narodna straža ).

New civil administration was composed of local People's boards ( Serbian: Narodni odbori ), which were subordinated to Serb People's Board ( Serbian: Srpski narodni odbor ) in Novi Sad.

The court concluded that the unilateral declaration of independence did not violate international law, because it was not issued by any official body bound by Serbian or UN administration rules, and international law does not contain a prohibition against declarations of independence.

After the Middle Ages, due to the invasion and later wars of the Ottoman Empire in the Serbian territories ( see Ottoman Serbia ), Serbian populations overwhelmed the " Christian lands " under Habsburg ( Austrian and Hungarian ) administration.

One of the historical documents from that period, showing " methods " of the Serbian police and administration, is a bill on 13 dinars and 15 paras charged to a Croatian family in 1934 for five bullets fired at the father, who was sentenced to death.

In January he advised a great national assembly that he had obtained an imperial edict from the Sultan ending all direct obligations of Serbian peasants to their former Turkish lords, guaranteeing Ottoman recognition of Serbian autonomy in most matters of internal administration, and offering Serbia the prospect of territorial aggrandizement, as well as the express right to institute schools, courts, and a governmental administration of her own.

The Karadjordjević family initially was a Serbian Royal House, then the Royal House of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and then the Royal House of Yugoslavia.

The FRY was initially dominated from 1992 to 1997 by Serbian President Slobodan Milošević and his supporters.

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.

From 1992 it governed in coalition with other parties – initially with the Serbian Radical Party, and from 1993 with the New Democracy Party.

However, although initially voicing his opposition, the dethroned King Nicholas I Petrovic-Njegos, in late 1920, recognized the unification of the Serbian Orthodox Church for the " benefit " of " all the Serbian people ".

And although Drašković initially claimed this militia was an incitement to Serbian authorities to form a national armed force outside of Yugoslav People's Army ( see last quote ), he eventually distanced himself from the paramilitary formation altogether.

Austria closed the borders which did cause severe blow to Serbian economy initially, but later it will bounce back even more developed than it was, thanks to the Pašić swift change towards the Western European countries.

The original word is still used in present-day Slavic languages, i. e. in Slovak ( as medza ), in Slovenian ( as meja ), in Serbian and Croatian ( as međa, међа ), in similar sense, and seems to have meant rather the border of a county initially in the Hungarian language, too.

* Popcycle, a Serbian britpop band, was initially called Gervasius Twinkleminkleson after one of the characters.

This was why the Serbian soldiers were initially surprised to find that they were fighting Bulgarians instead, until they understood what was happening.

Galija, despite being formed in the late 1970s and initially performing progressive rock, reached the peak of popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the album trilogy consisting of Daleko je Sunce ( 1988 ), Korak do slobode ( 1989 ), and Istorija, ti i ja ( 1991 ), entering the 1990s as one of the most popular Serbian rock bands.

Strip, which combines graphic art with power pop and pop punk, was initially a project by Serbian graphic and comic book artists, and gained popularity with their computer animated videos.

The term Nova srpska scena ( New Serbian Scene ) was coined in the second half of the 2000s by the web magazine Popboks, which was initially one of the main promoters of the scene.

The supreme chief, the Župan, initially held the lands of his family ( pater familias ), evolving with the expansion of the Župas-provinces becoming part of the Serbian principalities ; headed by a knez (" duke, prince ").

When the Kosovo War broke out in March 1999, the KLA initially did very badly against Serbian / Yugoslav forces, due in part to poor leadership under its senior commander Suleiman Selimi, a militarily inexperienced individual who had been given the post largely because of his influence in the Drenica region ( the KLA's heartland ).

Finally, when a Serbian backed organization assassinated the heir of the Austro-Hungarian throne, causing the 1914 July Crisis, nobody could stop the conflict and the First World War broke out.

Finally, when Serb-Austrian tensions again grew hot in July 1914 when a Serbian backed organization assassinated the heir of the Austro-Hungarian throne, no one had strong reservations about the possible conflict and the First World War broke out.

However, after a series of battles in 1914-1915 ( Battle of Cer, Battle of Kolubara ), the loss and recapture of Belgrade, and a Serbian counter-offensive with occupation of some Austrian territories ( in Syrmia and eastern Bosnia ), the Austrian army backed off.

Popović additionally heads the Ecotopia fund, the non-profit organization dealing with the environmental issues, financially backed by various Serbian governmental institutions as well as the private sector.

The Croatian Peasant Party boycotted the government of the Serbian People's Radical Party throughout the period, except for a brief interlude between 1925 and 1927, when external Italian expansionism was at hand with her allies, Albania, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria that threatened Yugoslavia as a whole.

The rite of her sacred fires is a modern festival held in honour of the Goddess Hekate all around the world at the Full Moon in May each year, with thousands participating in more than 18 languages, including English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German, Serbian, Welsh and Esperanto.

After his coronation, in 1451, Constantine XI sent a commission under George Sphrantzes asking Mara Branković, daughter of the Serbian Despot Đurađ Branković and Byzantine princess Irene Kantakouzene, by then the widow of Murad II, to marry him ( Maria had been allowed to return to her parents in Serbia after the death of Murad ).

Lauper took a role and wrote a song for the Serbian movie Here and There, which stars her husband, David Thornton, in one of the main roles.

Serbian President Slobodan Milošević's support for the " Vance Owen Plan " caused her to refuse to shake his hand, as she denounced him as a traitor to the Serbian nation.

Due to a growing isolation of the Republika Srpska after the peace was signed, she severed her ties with the SDS and formed Srpski narodni savez ( Serbian People's Alliance of the Republika Srpska ), and nominated Milorad Dodik, the then member of the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska whose SNSD party had only two MPs, for Prime Minister.

Plavšić's statement, read in her native Serbian language, repeated her admission of guilt.

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By signing the military appendix to the original agreement Bulgaria aimed to use the Serbian army to seize most of Macedonia while concentrating her own army for the operations against Thrace with its major cities of Adrianople and Constantinople.

At Barry George's first trial his defence barrister, Michael Mansfield QC, quoted from a National Criminal Intelligence Service report which stated that the Serbian warlord leader, Arkan, had ordered her assassination in retaliation for the NATO bombing of the Radio Television of Serbia headquarters on 23 April 1999, which had resulted in the deaths of several well-known Yugoslav TV presenters.

In March 2012, his widow Branka Prpa claimed that both her late husband and Dando were ‘ executed ’ by a Serbian hitman in revenge attacks.

She decided to run for President of Serbia in the Serbian presidential elections, 2004, despite her cousin Alexander's objections, stating that the Royal Family should stay out of politics.

After her wedding Princess Olga bore the style of Royal Highness in her personal capacity and not in conformity with the House Law of the Serbian Royal House from 1909 ; her husband, being a member of the cadet line of the Royal family, was only entitled to the style of His Highness.

In 1906, Dimitrov married his first wife, Serbian emigrant milliner, writer and socialist Ljubica Ivošević, with whom he lived until her death in 1933.

Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946 in Belgrade ) is a New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s.

On the official promoting of her book, she claimed that during her tenure, when she asked foreign advisors why they pushed so hard for the reform of Serbian education, she got answer that they need plumbers, not educated people ( Politika newspapers, June 13, 2006, page 10 ).

It is because she was dropped (" baciti " means " to drop " in Serbian ) by her father into the brook, when their grandparents, who lost all their children, were hiding her from Chetniks in the local mill.