Serbia

Serbia is a landlocked country in Central and Southeastern Europe. It borders Hungary to the north, Romania to the northeast, Bulgaria to the southeast, North Macedonia to the south, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the west, and Montenegro to the southwest, and is located at the intersection of the Panonia Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. While claiming the border with Albania through the conflict area of ​​Kosovo. Serbia has a population of about 7 million and Belgrade is the largest city in the capital.

The modern Serbian territory, which has been inhabited since the Paleolithic period, faced the migration of Slavs in the 6th century and is sometimes recognized as a tributary to the Byzantine, Frank, and Hungarian kingdoms in the early Middle Ages. Established a regional state in the region. The Kingdom of Serbia was approved by the Holy See and Constantinople in 1217 and reached the pinnacle of its territory as the Serbian Empire in 1346. By the mid-16th century, the Ottoman Empire had annexed the entire modern Serbia. Their rule was sometimes interrupted by the Habsburg Empire, which began to expand towards Central Serbia from the end of the 17th century, maintaining a foothold in Vojvodina. In the early 19th century, the Serbian Revolution established the nation-state as the first constitutional monarchy in the region and subsequently expanded its territory. Following the unification of the victims of World War I with the subsequent unification of Vojvodina's former Hapsburg crown with Serbia, the country co-founded Yugoslavia with other South Slavic countries. During the collapse of Yugoslavia, Serbia formed a coalition with Montenegro, disbanded peacefully in 2006, and regained Serbia's independence as a sovereign state for the first time since 1918. In 2008, representatives of the Kosovo Assembly unilaterally declared independence and responded in various ways. From the international community while Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory.

Serbia is a middle-income economy, ranked 64th in the Human Development Index area as "very high". It is a single parliamentary republic, a member of the United Nations, CoE, OSCE, PfP, BSEC, CEFTA, AIIB and a member of the WTO. Since 2014, the country has been negotiating EU accession with the aim of joining the European Union by 2025. Serbia has officially adhered to a military neutrality policy. The country provides universal insurance and free primary and secondary education to its citizens.