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Serbia: |
 | Location: Europe
Status: UN Country
Capital City: Belgrade (Beograd)
Main Cities: Novi Sad, Pristina, Kragujevac
Population: 9,400,000
Area: 88,361 km2
Currency: 1 Dinar = 100 paras
Languages: Serbian, Albanian, Hungarian
Religions: Serbian Orthodox, Muslim, Roman Catholic |
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Serbia: a constituent republic of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro: declared a kingdom in 1882; precipitated World War I by the conflict with Austria; became part of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later called Yugoslavia) in 1918; with Montenegro formed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia when the other constituent republics became independent in 1991-92; a new Union of Serbia and Montenegro formed in 2002; the autonomous region of Kosovo has been administered by the U.N. since the conflict of 1999. Capital: Belgrade. Pop.: 7 479 437 (2002). Area: 88 361 sq. km (34 109 sq. miles) Former name: Servia Serbian name: Srbija |
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