In Serbian Easter is called Vaskrs, a liturgical form inherited from the Serbian recension of Church Slavonic, corresponding to Croatian Uskrs.

In its final simplified form, the Serbian imperial title read " Emperor of Serbs and Greeks " ( цар Срба и Грка in modern Serbian ).

Language contact between Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian reached its height during Yugoslav times, so much so that the colloquial speech of the city of Skopje has been described as a " creolized form of Serbian " ( cf.

In modern times, the city has been known by its Ottoman Turkish name Üsküp () during the time of Ottoman rule and by the Serbian form Skoplje ( Скопље ) during the time of the Royal Yugoslavia between 1912 and 1941.

The Torlakian dialect of Serbian is spoken in southeast Serbia, and is not standardized, as it represents transitional form to Macedonian and Bulgarian.

Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a Slavic language ( Indo-European ), of the South Slavic subgroup.

Serbian epic poetry is being made even today in this same form.

* In Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Scandinavian languages and Spanish, Andrea is used as a woman's name, as the feminine form of Andrew, Andreas, András, Andrés, Anders or Andre.

The Serbian name of the city is Peć ( Пећ ); the Albanian name's definite form is Peja and the indefinite Pejë.

" Sremska Mitrovica " means " Mitrovica of Srem " ( Mitrovica of Kosovo and Mitrovica of Mačva also exist ), while " Mitrovica " itself stems from the name " Saint Demetrius " or " Sveti Dimitrije " in the Serbian ( in Cyrillic form " Свети Димитрије ") and Croatian language.

In Croatian and Serbian, the name for the fallow deer is jelen lopatar (" shovel deer "), due to the form of its antlers.

In February 1945, during World War II, a group of young men, members of the Serbian United Antifascist Youth League, decided to form a Youth Physical Culture Society, that was to become Red Star Belgrade on 4 March.

The organized supporters of Red Star are known as Delije, the plural of the singular form Delija, which in Serbian generally signifies a courageous, brave, strong or even handsome young man.

The Greek χορός is cognate with Bulgarian хоро ' horo ', Romanian ' horǎ ', Serbian / Croatian / Bosnian / Montenegrin / Slovenian ' kolo ', Macedonian / Montenegrin ' oro ', the Turkish form ' hora ', ' valle ' in Albania, and in Hebrew הורה ( Hora ).

The Serbian General Staff is composed of the highest-ranking officers who form the basic strategic command.

During the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, the concept of a Greater Serbia was widely seen outside of Serbia as the motivating force for the military campaigns undertaken to form and sustain Serbian states on the territories of the breakaway Yugoslav republics of Croatia ( the Republic of Serbian Krajina ) and Bosnia and Herzegovina ( the Republika Srpska ).

Only several days prior to the elections, Čavoški left DS to form the Serbian Liberal Party ( SLS ).

In March 2004, the G17 + joined with the Democratic Party of Serbia, the Serbian Renewal Movement, and New Serbia to form a minority-government coalition.

Since ethnic Bosniaks form a majority in only three eastern municipalities of Serbian Sandžak, and two eastern municipalities of Montenegrin Sandžak, and since the Serb and Montenegrin populations from this ethnically mixed region would oppose the idea of autonomy, it is unlikely that an eventual autonomous Sandžak would include municipalities with a majority Serb and Montenegrin ethnic populations.

The female form transliterated from Bulgarian and Russian is knyaginya (), kniahynia () in Ukrainian, kneginja in Slovene, Croatian and Serbian ().

The proto-Slavic form was kǔningǔ, kъnędzь, Bulgarian knyaz, East-Slavic knyaz, Polish ksiądz, Serbian " кнез ", Croatian and Slovene knez, Bosnian knjez, Czech kníže etc., as it could be a very early borrowing from the already extinct Proto-Germanic Kuningaz, a form also borrowed by Finnish and Estonian ( Kuningas ).

A result of this has been an increase in the maximum speed on the railway line on the Pan-European Corridor X, from the Slovenian border via Zagreb, Novska, Vinkovci to the Serbian border.

The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet has no diacritics.

This word has often been employed as an epithet in Eastern European legends ( Sabya Damaskinya or Sablja Dimiskija meaning " Damascene saber "), including the Serbian and Bulgarian legends of Prince Marko, a historical figure of the late 14th century in what is currently the Republic of Macedonia.

The word has also spread to Turkish as pide, and Bulgarian, Croatian and Serbian as pita, Albanian as pite and Modern Hebrew pittāh.

A Serbian vodka, Balkan 176 °, has a 88 % alcohol content.

* There has been a failure to eliminate parallel structures, insofar as health and education within the Kosovo Serbian community remain dependent on Serbian budgets ;

Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica responded by stating, " Today, this policy of force thinks that it has triumphed by establishing a false state.

Most of their remains were buried at sea near the island of Vido, a small island at the mouth of Corfu port, and a monument of thanks to the Greek nation has been erected at Vido by the grateful Serbs ; consequently, the waters around Vido Island are known by the Serbian people as the Blue Graveyard ( in Serbian, Плава Гробница, Plava Grobnica ), after a poem written by Milutin Bojić following World War I.

* The Ukrainian language, in common with Russian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene and Serbian has simplified the Common Slavic tl and dl into l ( for example, mela – she swept ").

The town has traditionally been known as the seat of Serbian Orthodox Church in the Habsburg Monarchy, as well as political and cultural capital of Serbian Vojvodina after the May Assembly and during the Revolution in 1848.

Serbian Cyrillic was devised in 1814 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić, who created the alphabet on phonemic principles, the Cyrillic itself has its origins in Cyril and Methodius ' transformation of the Greek script in the 9th century.

Red Star is the only Serbian and former Yugoslav club that has won a UEFA competition, winning the 1991 European Cup in Bari, Italy.

Serbian tennis players Novak Đoković, Ana Ivanović, Jelena Janković, Nenad Zimonjić, Janko Tipsarević and Viktor Troicki are very successful and their success has led to a popularisation of tennis in Serbia.

The Serbian Air Force currently operates a total of 3 units and has another 12 on order.

It has been told that Ischinger entered the talks " with only one goal and idea: for Kosovo to become independent in the end, with the Serbian authority's willing consent ".

Although the Serbian government has denied that any of their nationals are currently serving as mercenary soldiers in North Africa, five such men have been captured by anti-Gaddafi rebels in Tripoli and several others have also allegedly fought during the Second Battle of Benghazi.

The South Slavic languages all derive their forms from Old Church Slavonic, with Serbian emerging from Old Serbian ( Serbian-Slavonic ), which has a literary history from the 10th century.

However, almost the exact word exists in at least some of the Romance languages ( such as Portuguese-plenipotenciário ; French-plénipotentiaire ; Romanian-plenipotenţiar ; Spanish-plenipotenciario ; Italian-plenipotenziario ), with exactly the same meaning ; the Albanian word i / e plotfuqishëm sounds similar, although it has native roots ; other languages have their own equivalents ( for instance, German-Bevollmächtigt ( er ) ( adjective or noun ), Dutch Gevolmachtigd ( e ), Swedish fullmäktig, Norwegian fullmektig-all these Germanic cases are literal parallels ; Serbian punomoćan ( пуномоћан in Cyrillic ), Russian полномочный ( полный = full, мочь = to be in power, to be able ), Czech zplnomocněný ( plno = full, moc = power ), Slovak splnomocnený ( plno = full, moc = power ), Polish pełnomocnik ( pełno = of full, moc = power ), Bulgarian пълномощен ( pǎlnomošten ), Finnish täysivaltainen, Greek πληρεξούσιος, plērexoúsios, Turkish tam yetkili, and Tatar wäqälätle.

During the time of Turkish occupation, Serbian art was virtually non-existent, with the exception of several Serbian artists who lived in the lands ruled by the Habsburg Monarchy.

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.

His Serbian, Wallachian, and Byzantine vassals virtually were independent.

His Bulgarian, Serbian, Wallachian, and Byzantine vassals were virtually independent.

As a critic over more than four decades, Ladan surveyed virtually all works written in Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian — not infrequently to the consternation of the " objects " of his criticism.