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Bel·grade

(bĕl′grād′, -gräd′, bĕl-grād′)

The capital and largest city of Serbia, in the north-central part of the country at the confluence of the Danube and Sava Rivers. Founded in the third century bc, Belgrade became the capital of the kingdom of Serbia in the 19th century and the capital of Yugoslavia after World War I.

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Belgrade

(bɛlˈɡreɪd; ˈbɛlɡreɪd)

(Placename) the capital of Serbia, in the E part at the confluence of the Danube and Sava Rivers: became the capital of Serbia in 1878, of Yugoslavia in 1929, and later of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006). Pop: 1 280 639 (2002). Serbian name: Beograd

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Bel•grade

(ˈbɛl greɪd, -grɑd, -græd, bɛlˈgreɪd, -ˈgrɑd, -ˈgræd)

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the capital of Yugoslavia and the republic of Serbia, at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers. 1,470,073. Serbo-Croatian, Beograd.

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Belgrade - capital and largest city of Serbia and Montenegro; situated on the Danube

Beograd, capital of Serbia and Montenegro

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Jugoslavija, Serbia and Montenegro, Union of Serbia and Montenegro, Yugoslavia - a mountainous republic in southeastern Europe bordering on the Adriatic Sea; formed from two of the six republics that made up Yugoslavia until 1992; Serbia and Montenegro were known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003 when they adopted the name of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro

Serbia, Srbija - a historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia; Serbs settled the region in the 6th and 7th centuries

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Белград

Bělehrad

Beograd

Belgrad

Beograd

Belgrad

Beograd

Belgrade

[belˈgreɪd] N → Belgrado m

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Belgrade

[ˈbɛlgreɪd bɛlˈgreɪd] n → Belgrade

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Belgrade

n → Belgrad nt

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Belgrade

[bɛlˈgreɪd] n → Belgrado f

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Jocolpus Bumer, of the University of Belgrade, who established his conclusions on the subject in a work of three quarto volumes and committed suicide on being reminded that the j in the Roman alphabet had originally no curl.

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I could ruin the Stock Exchange to-morrow, bring London's credit, for a time, at any rate, below the credit of Belgrade."

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IN APRIL 1999, during the bombardment of the Serbian capital by NATO planes, the photographer Vesna Pavlovic took pictures of guests in the Belgrade Hyatt.

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One of Belgrade streets will soon be named after the late Japanese Ambassador Keisuke Oba, who was associated with the former Yugoslavia for 30 years, first as a student and later as a diplomat.

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IN SERBIA we were able to keep true to the war theme, with frequent reminders of NATO's past presence in Belgrade. Seventy-eight days of bombing left the place tattered, to say the least.

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5, 2000 after Slobodan Milosevic clumsily tried to steal what turned out to be his final election and found himself overwhelmed by popular outrage on the streets of Belgrade and international condemnation abroad.