History+Summary

=Important events in history -=


 * Serbia has a complicated history as this is the area where the Catholic church, Orthodox church, and Islam meet. The country has grown and shrunk over the region that is part of the Slavic region and today includes Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Kosovo and Hertzovogenia**


 * Slavs came from White Serbia, north of the Danube
 * Romans conquered in 200 BC: The state was called Illyricum
 * 11th C adopted Christianity - Orthodox church grew
 * Part of the Ottoman empire (Turkey) from 14th to 20th Century
 * Left the Ottoman empire in 1804 - 1814
 * The independent Principality of Serbia was formed in 1878
 * Association with Austria
 * Monarchy with the King of Serbia: The **Kingdom of Serbia** (Serbian: Краљевина Србија, //Kraljevina Srbija//) was established when Prince Milan Obrenović, ruler of the Principality of Serbia, was crowned King in 1882
 * Serbo Bulgarian war: 1885
 * Bulgaria declared independence
 * Bosnia and Herzegovina annexed by Austria
 * Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Britain, Italy, Serbia, Montenegro, Germany and France were closely involved
 * Ended with the Berlin treaty
 * Bosnian Crisis 1908-1909
 * Balkan wars 1912-1914
 * when Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia having large parts of their ethnic populations under Ottoman sovereignty, attacked the Ottoman Empire
 * Serbia recaptures Kosovo in 1912
 * The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ) brought the tensions between Austria-Hungary and Serbia to a head and precipitated World War 1.
 * After WW1 Serbia was extended to include Montengro. It was still a Kingdom - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
 * WW2: 1941, German, Italian and Hungarian forces attacked Yugoslavia, The Nazis bombed Belgrade
 * The prince Regent tried to sign a treaty with Hitler, but the people rejected it and sent him to exile
 * Germany and its allies invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941, the Nazis permitted the fascist and terrorist Ustaša organization to found the Independent State of Croatia. The Ustaša regime established [|numerous concentration camps]
 * After World War 2:
 * 1945, while still in exile, King Peter II was deposed by Yugoslavia [[image:http://www.yoursdaily.com/var/yoursdaily/storage/images/media/images/world_news/europe/serbia/josip_broz_tito/42473-1-eng-GB/josip_broz_tito_large.jpg width="215" height="226" align="right" caption="Josip Broz Tito"]]
 * Yugoslavia is close (politically) to Russia since they are Slavs too (See white Serbia)
 * Yugoslavia (Meaning Yugo="South", Slavia = "Slav land.")
 * A group of socialist republics,
 * Communist states (socialism)
 * Headed by Tito after 1963 a "President for life"
 * An economic crisis n the 1970s which was the result of the Yugoslav governments borrowing Western capital in order to fund growth through exports. But then Western economies then entered recession, blocked Yugoslav exports and created a huge debt problem
 * 1989 was the fall of Communism
 * President Tito died in 1980
 * Ethnic/religious tensions started to get worse
 * Serbian communist leader Slobodan Milošević sought to restore pre-1974 Serbian sovereignty
 * 1990 Yugoslavia war
 * Yugoslav People's Army (//Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija, JNA//) met with the Presidency of Yugoslavia in an attempt to get them to declare a state of emergency which would allow for the army to take control of the country.
 * 1991: Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia declare independence
 * 1992: Bosnia and Herzegovina recognized as independent by the US
 * 1992 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was formed (Serbia and Montenegro)
 * 1995: November 1995, Dayton Agreement is signed by leaders of FR Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia
 * 1998: Civil war: "The Kosovo war"
 * Kosovo wanted independence from Serbia
 * 1999 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) under the leadership of the United States waged war on Yugoslavia
 * NATO bombed in the summer of 1999: Thousands of civilians died
 * Claims of war crimes were made by the US and several people have been captured and tried in the Hague there is a lot of discussion that the truth is not so much as they say.
 * In1999, Yugoslavia complained officially at The Hague against the NATO countries. The Court did not decide upon the case because Yugoslavia was not a member of the UN during the war
 * In June 1999 1999 Milošević gave in and accepted peace conditions ( Kumanovo agreement )
 * Kosovo has now declared independence but is still administered by the UN (Only Albania recognized this independence)
 * A lot of Serbs and Roma leave Kosovo to live in Serbia
 * 2003 Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić was assassinated
 * 2004: Ethnic tensions and territorial dispute have been a major problem in Kosovo : More unrest and fighting
 * 2006 Serbia declared independence: Serbia is a modern parliamentary representative democratic republic
 * 2008 Kosovo declares independence again.
 * Not all countries have agreed with this especially Serbia and Russia
 * 2010 the International court of justice ruled that the declaration did not breach international law, because international law does not deal with declarations of independence
 * 2010 the International court of justice ruled that the declaration did not breach international law, because international law does not deal with declarations of independence