So you stumble upon this new blog and wonder what is it about, then you see its name and wonder who's Serbia or what's Serbia? Maybe you've heard of Serbia, but you maybe have mistaken it with Siberia, a region in Russia much bigger than Serbia. Ah but you have maybe heard about Novak Djoković, the tennis player, he's from Serbia.
Serbia is a small, landlocked country on the Balkan peninsula, it borders Hungary,Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Romania. It has around 7 million citizens and the capital of Serbia is Belgrade.
Serbia is a republic, which means it has a parliament and a president that are elected every five years, of course like in most countries we dislike the politicians because they are liars, scumbags...
Serbia has two autonomous provinces, Voyvodina and Kosovo-Metohiya. You have probably heard of Kosovo, a very problematic region and a topic we in Serbia don't like to talk about. I will write about Kosovo in the future.
Voyvodina is the northern province while Kosovo-Metohiya is in the south.
So now you have a pretty good knowlege for someone that maybe didn't even hear about Serbia. Now you're wondering, well who lives there? What kind of a language do they speak? Are they Russians?
The largest ethnic group in Serbia are Serbs. Serbs are slavs and belong to the South-Slavic group of Slavs, the closes ethinic groups to Serbs are Slovenians and Croatians. Serbs speak Serbian (it was obvious), the Serbian language is a Slavic one, and it is almost the same as Croatian, some people call our language Serbo-Croatian because the languages are closely related.
Serbian is different from Russian (if you were asking are we Russians), we dont even understand them clearly.
Serbian is written in the cyrillic script, thats the one that the Russians are using too but its a bit different. Serbian is also written in latin and latin is currently the most popular script in Serbia.
So now you're wondering, "is it cold there?" or "is that some frozen land?" or maybe "do they live in a desert?". Serbia has a continental climate, which means that it has hot summers and cold winters.
The northern province, Voyvodina is a large valley and has almost no mountains. As you cross the rivers Danube and Sava you will start to find mountain ranges and as you go southerner the mountains will get higher.
Serbia is a small, landlocked country on the Balkan peninsula, it borders Hungary,Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Romania. It has around 7 million citizens and the capital of Serbia is Belgrade.
Location of Serbia in Europe
Serbia is a republic, which means it has a parliament and a president that are elected every five years, of course like in most countries we dislike the politicians because they are liars, scumbags...Serbia has two autonomous provinces, Voyvodina and Kosovo-Metohiya. You have probably heard of Kosovo, a very problematic region and a topic we in Serbia don't like to talk about. I will write about Kosovo in the future.
Voyvodina is the northern province while Kosovo-Metohiya is in the south.
So now you have a pretty good knowlege for someone that maybe didn't even hear about Serbia. Now you're wondering, well who lives there? What kind of a language do they speak? Are they Russians?
The largest ethnic group in Serbia are Serbs. Serbs are slavs and belong to the South-Slavic group of Slavs, the closes ethinic groups to Serbs are Slovenians and Croatians. Serbs speak Serbian (it was obvious), the Serbian language is a Slavic one, and it is almost the same as Croatian, some people call our language Serbo-Croatian because the languages are closely related.
Serbian is different from Russian (if you were asking are we Russians), we dont even understand them clearly.
Serbian is written in the cyrillic script, thats the one that the Russians are using too but its a bit different. Serbian is also written in latin and latin is currently the most popular script in Serbia.
I will write more about the language and the writing in the future.
So now you're wondering, "is it cold there?" or "is that some frozen land?" or maybe "do they live in a desert?". Serbia has a continental climate, which means that it has hot summers and cold winters.
The northern province, Voyvodina is a large valley and has almost no mountains. As you cross the rivers Danube and Sava you will start to find mountain ranges and as you go southerner the mountains will get higher.
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| Shumadiya-south Serbia |
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| Voyvodina |
Our winters arent really that cold, particalarily now, when it should be a lot of snow there isnt. Winter here started a few days ago (by that I mean real winter with snow and freezeing temperatures below 0°C) and it should have started in December. That's the effect of climate change I guess.
I don't like the Serbian summer, mostly because the temperatures go high up to 40°C and it is unbearable.And summer here (again I blame climate change) starts pretty early in the last years, April or May.The northern province, Voyvodina is a large valley and has almost no mountains. As you cross the rivers Danube and Sava you will start to find mountain ranges and as you go southerner the mountains will get higher. Our winters arent really that cold, particalarily now, when it should be a lot of snow there isnt. Winter here started a few days ago (by that I mean real winter with snow and freezeing temperatures below 0°C) and it should have started in December. That's the effect of climate change I guess.
I don't like the Serbian summer, mostly because the temperatures go high up to 40°C and it is unbearable.And summer here (again I blame climate change) starts pretty early in the last years, April or May.
I don't like the Serbian summer, mostly because the temperatures go high up to 40°C and it is unbearable.And summer here (again I blame climate change) starts pretty early in the last years, April or May.The northern province, Voyvodina is a large valley and has almost no mountains. As you cross the rivers Danube and Sava you will start to find mountain ranges and as you go southerner the mountains will get higher. Our winters arent really that cold, particalarily now, when it should be a lot of snow there isnt. Winter here started a few days ago (by that I mean real winter with snow and freezeing temperatures below 0°C) and it should have started in December. That's the effect of climate change I guess.
I don't like the Serbian summer, mostly because the temperatures go high up to 40°C and it is unbearable.And summer here (again I blame climate change) starts pretty early in the last years, April or May.
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| In the summer it's so hot that some people need |
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| The chapel of Saint Sava during winter |
So now you have a small, but a decent knowlege about Serbia for a froreigner.Congratulations!
