Interesting and Fun Facts about Serbia

Fascinating and Cool Quick Facts

1.Serbia is a state located between Central and Southeast Europe.

With its riverside cities, historical sites reflecting its deep-rooted past, nature and nightlife, Serbia is a country that is on the list of places to visit. Belgrade is the country's largest city and capital. It is located on the plateau where the Danube and Sava rivers meet. The official language is Serbian. Different languages are also spoken among the people.

2.It All Started Here

A Serbian nationalist killed the Austrian Archduké Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo in 1914, who became the catalyst (accelerator) of World War I.

3.Birthplace Of Many Rulers

Did you know that Serbia is the birthplace of the largest number of Roman Emperors in any country? Yes, Roman rulers were born in 18 countries and one fifth of all Roman emperors were born in Serbia.

4.Bizarre Village

There is a village in Mt.Stara Planina in Serbia. Stara Planina is made entirely of stone. All the houses and other structures of this village, known as Gostuša, are made of mud, stone and natural materials and contain no other materials. You may think that the houses are not intact. But it is not like that, these houses are still intact and people live in them.

5.Amazing Natural Beauties

The tallest stone gates in Europe are located in Serbia. Three of these gates are called small prerast, large prerast, and dry prerast.

6.Little Prerast is the largest of these three. It measures 34 meters high, 30 meters long, and 15 meters wide.

7.Similar To Grand Canyon In The USA

Serbia has its own Grand Canyon. The Temštice river canyon is a canyon in Serbia that is strikingly similar to the Colorado Grand Canyon because of its red cliffs.

8.It Originated From Here

Did you know that Dracula was not the first vampire? Yes, Dracula was not the first one. Petar Blagojević was the first vampire to be published in the Austrian press in 1725. In fact, the word vampire is derived from the Serbian word “Vampir”.

9.They Helped The Space Missions

Serbs also played an important role in the first moon landing. Although they did not contribute financially, they did contribute to the workforce. Three Serbs participated in this project, known as Apollo. In addition, a Serbian named Mihajlo Pipin was among the founders of the Aviation National Advisory Committee (NACA) on 3 March 1915, which later became NASA.

10.Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, is one of the largest cities in Southeast Europe.

With its riverside cities, historical sites reflecting its deep-rooted past, nature and nightlife, Serbia is a country that is on the list of places to visit. Belgrade is the country's largest city and capital. It is located on the plateau where the Danube and Sava rivers meet. The official language is Serbian. Different languages are also spoken among the people.

11.Serbia formed a union with Montenegro in 1992 and left again in 2006 to become independent.

Montenegro was one of the six republics that made up the former Yugoslavia. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, Montenegro joined the new Yugoslavia by the force of Serbia. With the efforts of Montenegro, a more flexible federation framework was created in 2003 as Serbia-Montenegro. Montenegro, on the other hand, decided to be independent with 55.5% of the vote in the referendum held on Sunday, 21 May 2006. On June 3, 2006, the Montenegrin Parliament declared the independence of Montenegro based on the result of the referendum. NATO Foreign Ministers invited Montenegro, one of the six republics that make up the former Yugoslavia, as the 29th member, despite the objections of Russia.

12.The name "Serbia" comes from the Greek meaning "country of the Serbs".

Serbs are a South Slavic people who are settled in the Balkans and speak Serbian, one of the Slavic languages, and are predominantly Orthodox Christian. They differ from Muslim Bosnians and Catholic Croats in terms of culture, language and alphabet.

13.Serbia has five national parks: Đerdap, Fruška Gora, Kopaonik, Šar-planina and Tara.

Tara National Park, which is defined as the best protected and well-kept national park in Europe, is home to many kinds of wild animals and birds, including wolves, eagles, bears and hawks. Kaluđerske Bare is the best place to explore Lake Zaovine and Mount Tara.

14.Serbia's agricultural land covers approximately 58%, while forests cover 31.6% of its total land.

The agricultural sector is the only sector in the Serbian economy that gives a positive foreign trade balance. The most important agricultural export goods are corn, sugar, frozen raspberry, wheat and sunflower oil. About 60% of the agricultural land is used for the cultivation of crops such as corn, wheat, barley, sunflower, soybean and sugar beet. The region where the agricultural sector is concentrated is the Vojvodina region, located in the north of the country and where 84% of the total production is made. Serbia has a total of 4.2 million hectares of arable land, 90% of which belongs to people not the government.