Serbia - Encyclopedia. com serbia location, size, and extent topography climate flora and fauna environment population migration ethnic groups languages religions transportation history government political parties local government judicial system armed forces international cooperation economy income labor agriculture animal husbandry fishing forestry mining energy and power industry science and technology domestic
Multi-Ethnic Conflict: Yugoslavia | Encyclopedia. com Only Serbia and Montenegro remained together as one nation called Serbia The new nations of Slovenia and Macedonia proved somewhat stable, but conflict raged among the Serbs, Bosnians, and Croats in the other three nations of Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Croatia The ethnic war would eventually be the bloodiest war in Europe since World War II
Yugoslavia - Encyclopedia. com YUGOSLAVIA THE LAND AND PEOPLE ECONOMY CULTURE AND THE ARTS HISTORY AND POLITICS BIBLIOGRAPHY Yugoslavia (meaning "South Slavia" or "land of the South Slavs"), was created twice in the twentieth century—both times after a world war—and it disintegrated twice: the first time because of an invasion and partition during the Second World War and the second time at the end of the Cold War
Slobodan Milosevic - Encyclopedia. com Slobodan Milosevic was a political leader of Serbia and a key figure in the Yugoslav ethnic wars of the 1990s and the breakup of the socialist federation of Yugoslavian states Milosevic led Serbia's Socialist Party from 1992 to 2001 He maintained power by suppressing political opponents and controlling the media
Treaty Of San Stefano | Encyclopedia. com Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro received their independence, along with territorial enlargement Turkey was obliged strictly to observe concessions for local participation in government that were inherent in the Organic Regulation of 1868 on Crete, while analogous regimes were to be implemented in Thessaly and Albania
Alliance System - Encyclopedia. com When the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, was assassinated by a Serbian terrorist on 28 June 1914 and the leadership in Vienna used this event to unleash a war against Serbia, the full effect of the alliance system became evident Germany, Austria-Hungary's alliance partner, was if anything even more bent on war
Triple Alliance and Triple Entente - Encyclopedia. com Triple Alliance [1] and Triple Entente (äntänt´), two international combinations of states that dominated the diplomatic history of Western Europe [2] from 1882 until they came into armed conflict in World War I [3]
Arkans Tigers (or Serbian Volunteer Guard) | Encyclopedia. com With a force that left even some Nazis shocked, the Ustasha carried out a program of genocide and forced religious conversion against Croatia and Bosnia's Serb population The Serbs responded with the creation of a force known as the Chetniks—a loose alliance of Serb nationalists and royalists—seeking the creation of a Greater Serbia
Gavrilo Princip - Encyclopedia. com Princip later claimed that he intended one shot for General Oskar Potiorek, military governor of Bosnia, but the shot felled the duchess instead One month later, on July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary had found the reason it sought to enter into war It held Serbia accountable for the actions of Gavrilo Princip and declared war
The Willy-Nicky Telegrams - Encyclopedia. com But more powerful people within Austria-Hungary—including the leader of Austria's armed forces—saw the murder as an opportunity to teach Serbia a lesson and gain more power in the Balkans (a group of countries occupying the Balkan Peninsula, including the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Serbia, Bulgaria
