Prior to the early 1990s, Serbia was the dominant political and military force within the nation of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was a highly diverse country in terms of religion, ethnicity, and language with few unifying features beyond its socialist political and economic system. When the socialist ...
The dissolution of the large complex households in the Balkans: Was the ultimate reason structural or cultural?dynamic data validationorthogonal collocationsKalman filterThe article examines three village communities—Lekenik in Civil Croatia, Bobovac in the Croatian Military Border, and Oraac in Serbia...
The Russo-Turkish War of 1877 to 1878 was a Russian attempt at retaking the lands it had lost to the Ottoman Empire in the Crimean War, which ended in February of 1856. With the aid of Bulgaria, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia, the Russian Empire claimed victory in the war. ...
While European rivers overall are the most dammed of any continent’s, many in the Balkans remain relatively pristine, though thousands of hydropower projects are planned. At one point, there were eight dams proposed on the Vjosa’s main stretch and dozens more on its tributaries. ...
The last big political purge in Serbia was carried out in 1972, with the fall of Liberals. After Tito`s death, people who remained in power were Petar Stambolic, member of both federal presidencies, Dragoslav Markovic, chairman of Federal Assembly, Nikola Ljubicic, chairman of Republic ...
LelaMevorah:AProfessionalJewishWoman'sContributiontothePracticeofMedicineinSerbiaintheAftermathoftheHolocaust In lieu of an , here is a brief excerpt of the content: Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can...
Although Russia had no formal treaty obligation to Serbia, it wanted to control the Balkans, and had a long-term perspective toward gaininga military advantageover Germany and Austria-Hungary. ... Tsar Nicholas II mobilized Russian forces on 30 July 1914 to threaten Austria-Hungary if it invaded...
the conquest of most independent Africa – only 10 percent of it was under European control in 1870. And before the emergence of many new states within Europe after World War One. It had begun much earlier in the Balkans, and the term ‘Balkanisation’ came to be used for it....
Holger AfflerbachWhat Was the Great War about?War Aims, Military Strategies and Political Justifications during the First World WarFrom 29 July 1914, the day when Austrian troops fired the first shots into Serbia, until 11 November 1918, the day of the armistice in Europe, the First World ...
'I was on assignment in the Balkan wars and Jamie was a close adviser to the US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,' Amanpour, who is CNN's chief international correspondent, explains. 'I was trying to follow her visit to Serbia when Slobodan Milosevic refused to … Read...