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A. Belgrade is Serbia’s capital and largest city with population of about 1,7 million people. The canopy collapse occurred in the northern city of Novi Sad, Serbia’s second-largest city. Protesters blame corruption for the disaster and are unhappy with Vucic’s increasingly autocratic rule.
D. Yugoslavia was created in 1918 at the end of World War I. In 1991, it began breaking apart into the current nations of Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia. Ethnic tensions led to a decade of warfare among some of the newly independent countries.
A. A Bosnian Serb student assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire which then declared war on Serbia. The Russian empire came to Serbia’s defense. The Germans and Ottomans backed Austria-Hungary, and the French and British allied with Russia.
A, The Balkan Peninsula is bordered by the Adriatic Sea in the northwest, the Ionian Sea in the southwest, the Aegean Sea in the south, the Turkish straits in the east, and the Black Sea in the northeast. Most of the nations of the former Yugoslavia are on the peninsula.