Description: Kosovo: Serb protesters throw teargas at Nato soldiers as internal frictions escalate, Serbian president set to meet ambassadors from several countries to discuss tensions in Kosovo, NATO soldiers injured in Kosovo clashes with Serb protesters
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Serbia ( i / ˈ s ɜːr b i ə / , Serbian : Србија / Srbija , IPA: [sř̩bija] ), officially the Republic of Serbia ( Serbian : Република Србија / Republika Srbija ), is a sovereign state situated at the crossroads between Central and Southeast Europe , covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans . Serbia is landlocked and borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; Macedonia to the south; and Croatia , Bosnia , and Montenegro to the west; it also claims a bord
Following the Slavic migrations to the Balkans from the 6th century onwards, Serbs established several states in the early Middle Ages. The Serbian Kingdom obtained recognition by Rome and Constantinople in 1217; it reached its peak in 1346 as a relatively short-lived Serbian Empire . By the mid-16th century, the entire territory of modern-day Serbia was annexed by the Ottoman Empire , at times interrupted by the Habsburgs . In the early 19th century, the Serbian Revolution established the nation-state as t