Serbia,
officially the Republic of Serbia,
is a landlocked country in Central
and South-eastern Europe, covering
the central part of the Balkan
Peninsula and the southern part of
the Pannonian Plain. The capital is
Belgrade. Serbia borders Hungary to
the north; Romania and Bulgaria to
the east; Albania and the Republic
of Macedonia to the south; and
Montenegro, Croatia and Bosnia and
Herzegovina to the west.Placed under
Ottoman occupation in the 15th
century following the collapse of
the Serbian Empire, the uprisings
against Turkish occupation between
1804-1815 re-established Serbia as a
state which obtained formal
independence in 1878. Victorious in
Balkan wars and World War I, for
nearly a century Serbia was part of
various South Slavic states,
including the Kingdom of the Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes from 1918 to
1941 (renamed to the Kingdom of
Yugoslavia in 1929), the Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from
1945 to 1992, the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia from 1992 to 2003, and
the State Union of Serbia and
Montenegro from 2003 to 2006. After
Montenegro voted independence from
the State Union, Serbia officially
proclaimed its independence on June
5, 2006, as the successor state to
the State Union of Serbia and
Montenegro.
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