y with two legislative houses. Major resources are petroleum, coal, copper, chrome, antimony, lead, agricultural produce, timber but the country is in the slow process of recovering from the devastating ethical wars being fought on its teritory, and its economy needs drastical changes. The country is almost completely mountainous with exception of Pannonian plain (the bread basket) in Vojvodina with numerous rivers. The climate is continental, temperatures are generally mild but can range from very hot in summers to very cold in winters. Precipitation is steady throughout the year. (3)
             Slavonic in origin, Serbs settled around Belgrade during the sixth century AD. This region was dominated by Byzantine empires until the thirteen century. As Byzantium declined, Serbs dominated the Balkans until Turks stopped them. After its crushing defeat at the Battle of Kosovo (The Field of Blackbirds) in 1389, Serbia became an Ottoman vasal state. During the Russo-Turko War and Balkan wars Serbia gained its complete independence. With the end of the WWI, Serbia was setting federation with Croatia and Slovenia, and 1921 the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was formed with the Serbian King Alexander I. With the conclusion of the WWII, Yugoslav state was formed and was consisted of six republics: Serbia as the most dominant republic, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Montenegro, and two autonomous regions of Kosovo and Vojvodina. Its first president, Marshal Tito, kept the country together for almost a half of century, playing in between communist Russia and captalist America during the Cold War. (4)When in 1898 Milosevic became the president, he revoked the special rights and privilegies of Kosovo and Vojvodina. Slovenia followed by Croatia, and later Macedonia, wanted to excede from the federation. YPA (Yugoslav People's Army) failed to prevent independence of Slovenia in 1991 but in Croatia and Bosnia it intervene...