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[[Image:Belgrade.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Belgrade city center (2004)]]
[[Image:Belgrade.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Belgrade city center (2004)]]
'''Belgrade''' (Serbian: Beograd, 'white city') is the capital of [[Serbia]] and formerly capital of [[Yugoslavia]]; it lies at the confluence of the rivers [[Danube]] and [[Sava River|Sava]] in the north of the country, and has a population of 1.6 million. It became capital of the independent Serbian state in 1878, and of the new state of Yugoslavia in 1918. The city had been occupied by Austrian and German forces in the [[First World War]], and by German forces between 1941 and 1944, when it was liberated by [[Partisan]] forces under [[Marshal Tito]]. In 1999 it was bombed by NATO aircraft during the [[Kosovo War]].
'''Belgrade''' (Serbian: Beograd, 'white city') is the capital of [[Serbia]] and formerly capital of [[Yugoslavia]]; it lies at the confluence of the rivers [[Danube]] and [[Sava River|Sava]] in the north of the country, and has a population of 1.6 million. It became capital of the independent Serbian state in 1878, and of the new state of Yugoslavia in 1918. The city had been occupied by Austrian and German forces in the [[First World War]], and by German forces between 1941 and 1944, when it was liberated by [[Partisan]] forces under [[Marshal Tito]]. In 1999 it was bombed by [[NATO]] aircraft during the [[Kosovo War]]. NATO deliberately bombed the [[People's Republic of China]] (PRC) embassy in Belgrade,<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/oct/17/balkans</ref> which provoked a militarization of the PRC in subsequent decades.<ref>https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1219579.shtml</ref>
[[File:Bezkosa NATO attack Belgrade.jpg|thumb|left|380px|NATO attack on power distributing station on Belgrade residential suburb, Bezanija. Attack took place on 06-01-1999, resulting with loss of electricity in whole Belgrade.]]
[[File:Bezkosa NATO attack Belgrade.jpg|thumb|left|380px|NATO attack on power distributing station on Belgrade residential suburb, Bezanija. Attack took place on 06-01-1999, resulting with loss of electricity in whole Belgrade.]]