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• the Museum of Vuk and Dositej is the oldest preserved residential building in Belgrade, Serbia?
• the Đorđe Martinović affair, concerning a farmer hospitalised with a beer bottle in his rectum, was a major ethnic and political controversy in Serbia in 1985 and contributed to the collapse of Yugoslavia?
• only one isolated population of the butterfly Boloria eunomia in Serbia is known?
• the award-winning 2006 Serbian black comedy The Optimists was inspired by Voltaire's satire Candide?
• the central monument in Bubanj Memorial Park (pictured) in Niš, Serbia, is shaped like three huge raised hands with clenched fists?
• the village of Strezimirovci has been bisected by the Serbian–Bulgarian border since 1919?
• the first McDonald's restaurant in Eastern Europe was opened March 24, 1988 in a former family house in Belgrade, constructed by Serbian architect Dimitrije T. Leko in 1893?
• notable figures buried at New Cemetery in Belgrade include Ivo Andrić, winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature, and Zoran Đinđić, the Prime Minister of Serbia who was assassinated in 2003?
• in October 1788, near Tomaševac (in present day Serbia), Friedrich Joseph, Count of Nauendorf and approximately 300 Hussars routed 1,200 Sipahis?
• Hrelja, a 14th-century semi-independent feudal lord under Serbian suzerainty, built the defensive tower (pictured) in Bulgaria's largest monastery, the Rila Monastery?
• Flora Sandes, who served with the Serbian Army, was the only British woman to officially enrol as a soldier in World War I?
• Crveni Krst, a neigborhood of Belgrade, Serbia, was built around the alleged burial site of Saint Sava?
• Milan Obrenović II, who was the ruler of Serbia for less than two weeks in 1839, may have been too ill to ever have been aware of the fact?
• Vlasina Lake in southeastern Serbia is famous for floating islands arising from chunks of peat broken off the shore?
• in Serbian legend old people who had outlived their usefulness were ritually slain by their children in a custom known as lapot?
• American blogger Pamela Geller has strongly defended former Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic and denied the existence of Serbian concentration camps?
• church services may be held in Serbia under the crown of a zapis, a large oak with a cross inscribed into its bark, sacred for the village at which it is situated?

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