Serbia | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-25

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia


00:02:50 1 Etymology
00:04:55 2 History
00:05:04 2.1 Prehistory
00:05:52 2.2 Ancient history
00:07:51 2.3 Middle Ages
00:09:33 2.4 Ottoman and Habsburg rule
00:11:47 2.5 Revolution and independence
00:14:24 2.6 Balkan Wars, World War I and the First Yugoslavia
00:18:39 2.7 World War II and the Second Yugoslavia
00:22:56 2.8 Breakup of Yugoslavia and political transition
00:26:18 2.9 Recent history
00:27:51 3 Geography
00:30:34 3.1 Climate
00:33:24 3.2 Hydrology
00:35:08 3.3 Environment
00:38:38 4 Politics
00:40:49 4.1 Law and criminal justice
00:41:51 4.2 Foreign relations
00:44:09 4.3 Military
00:46:09 4.4 Administrative divisions
00:47:23 5 Demographics
00:50:30 5.1 Religion
00:52:20 5.2 Language
00:53:33 6 Economy
00:56:35 6.1 Agriculture
00:58:34 6.2 Industry
01:00:46 6.3 Energy
01:04:36 6.4 Transport
01:08:27 6.5 Telecommunications
01:09:21 6.6 Tourism
01:10:45 7 Education and science
01:15:11 8 Culture
01:17:14 8.1 Art and architecture
01:20:16 8.2 Literature
01:25:29 8.3 Music
01:31:11 8.4 Theatre and cinema
01:34:31 8.5 Media
01:37:51 8.6 Cuisine
01:39:24 8.7 Sports
01:45:06 9 Public holidays
01:45:23 10 See also



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Serbia (Serbian: Србија / Srbija [sř̩bija]), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија / Republika Srbija [repǔblika sř̩bija]), is a country situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe in the southern Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. The sovereign state borders Hungary to the north, Romania to the northeast, Bulgaria to the southeast, Macedonia to the south, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the southwest. The country claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia numbers around 7 million residents. Its capital, Belgrade, ranks among the oldest and largest cities in southeastern Europe.Inhabited since the Paleolithic Age, the Slavic migrations to the Balkans in the 6th century established several sovereign states in the early Middle Ages which at times nominally recognized Byzantine, Frankish and Hungarian overrule. The Serbian Kingdom obtained recognition by the Vatican and Constantinople in 1217, reaching its peak in 1346 as a relatively short-lived Serbian Empire. By the mid-16th century, the entire modern-day Serbia was annexed by the Ottomans, at times interrupted by the Habsburg Empire, which started expanding towards Central Serbia from the end of the 17th century, while maintaining a foothold in modern-day Vojvodina. In the early 19th century, the Serbian Revolution established the nation-state as the region's first constitutional monarchy, which subsequently expanded its territory. Following disastrous casualties in World War I, and the subsequent unification of the former Habsburg crownland of Vojvodina (and other territories) with Serbia, the  country co-founded Yugoslavia with other South Slavic peoples, which would exist in various political formations until the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. During the breakup of Yugoslavia, Serbia formed a union with Montenegro, which was peacefully dissolved in 2006. In 2008, the parliament of the province of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence, with mixed responses from the international community.
Serbia is a member of the UN, CoE, OSCE, PfP, BSEC, CEFTA and it is acceding to the WTO. Since 2014 the country has been negotiating its EU accession with perspective of joining the European Union by 2025 and is the only country in the current enlargement agenda which is designated as "free" by Freedom House. Since 2007, Serbia formally adheres to the policy of military neutrality. An upper-middle income economy with a dominant service sector followed by the industrial sector and agriculture, the country ranks high by the Human Development Index (66th), Social Pr ...