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Serat Kandha
Serat Kandha, also written Serat Kanda, is a genre of Javanese manuscript texts retelling wayang stories and Javanese dynastic history, used as libretti for court wayang wong performances.
Serat Rama
Serat Rama is a Javanese retelling of the Ramayana in metrical macapat verse by the poet Yasadipura I, used for wayang kulit and wayang wong performances.
Serat Wedhatama
Serat Wedhatama ("The Foremost Teaching") is a 19th-century Javanese didactic poem in macapat verse by Mangkunegara IV of Surakarta, Central Java, teaching ethics and the unity of servant and Lord.
Serat Wulang Reh
Serat Wulang Reh (ꦱꦼꦫꦠ꧀ꦮꦸꦭꦁꦫꦺꦃ) is a didactic Javanese poem by Pakubuwono IV, king of Surakarta, finished in 1808 as instructions and prohibitions for right living.
Serato
Serato is a family of DJ performance software made by a company in Auckland, New Zealand, best known for Serato DJ Pro and Pitch 'n Time.
Seratrodast
Seratrodast (brand name Bronica) is an oral thromboxane A2 receptor antagonist developed as an anti-asthmatic drug, marketed in Japan since 1995 and known for hepatotoxicity risk.
Serayah (actress)
Serayah (Serayah Ranee McNeill, born 1995, Encinitas, California) is an American actress, singer, and model known as Tiana Brown on Fox's Empire, Rbel in BET's Kingdom Business, and lead of Netflix's Ruth & Boaz (2025).
Serb Democratic Party (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Serb Democratic Party (Srpska demokratska stranka, SDS), Serb nationalist party founded 12 July 1990 in Sarajevo; wartime leader Radovan Karadžić; dominant in Republika Srpska until SNSD displaced it after 2002; won 2 House seats in 2022.
Serb Muslims
Serb Muslims: Slavic-speaking Balkan Muslims identified as Serbs, chiefly in Sandžak and Bosnia; descendants of Ottoman-era converts, about half a million in Serbia, with contested Serb, Croat, or Bosniak national designation.
Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza
Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, born 1967 in Bucharest, is a Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament since 2024, where he chairs the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia.
Serbes (river)
Serbes (Σέρβης) was an ancient river of Roman Algeria mentioned by Ptolemy, probably the lower Oued Isser (Yusr) near modern Boumerdès; the Barrington Atlas marks the identification as uncertain (Serbes? fl.).
Serbest şiir
Serbest şiir, also called serbest nazım, is Turkish free verse written without fixed meter and traditionally without rhyme; introduced by Nâzım Hikmet, it became the dominant form by the 1940s.
Serbia (organization)
Olympic Committee of Serbia (Олимпијски комитет Србије), Serbia's national Olympic committee, founded as the Serbian Olympic Club in 1910, IOC-recognized in 1912, formerly Yugoslav Olympic Committee, based in Belgrade.
Serbia (Србија)
Serbia (Србија), Republic of Serbia, is a Balkan parliamentary republic of 88,499 km² and 6.65 million people (excluding Kosovo), capital Belgrade. Upper-middle-income Western Balkans economy; EU candidate with stalled accession, Partly Free at 56/100, Kosovo dispute unresolved.
Serbia and Montenegro (Србија и Црна Гора)
Serbia and Montenegro (Србија и Црна Гора), the State Union replacing the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 4 February 2003; loose union of Serbia and Montenegro under the Constitutional Charter, dissolved June 2006 after Montenegro's independence referendum.
Serbia and Montenegro national football team
Serbia and Montenegro national football team (2003-2006), successor name of FR Yugoslavia; qualified for the 2006 World Cup, played it after the state dissolved, lost all three Group C games, then split into Serbian and Montenegrin teams.
Serbia in the Yugoslav Wars
Serbia in the Yugoslav Wars refers to Serbia's role, under Slobodan Milošević, in the four wars of Yugoslavia's breakup from 1991 to 1999, including the Kosovo war and NATO bombing.
Serbia men's national basketball team
Serbia men's national basketball team (KSS, FIBA Europe, SRB): 2023 World Cup silver medalist and Paris 2024 Olympic bronze medalist led by Nikola Jokic; ranked in the FIBA top four, heir to the Yugoslav basketball tradition.
Serbia national football team
Serbia national football team (Fudbalska reprezentacija Srbije), men's team of the Football Association of Serbia, UEFA; FIFA counts 13 World Cup appearances including Yugoslavia era; Euro finals 1960, 1968; ranked 40th in 2026.
Serbia women's national volleyball team (Женска одбојкашка репрезентација Србије)
Serbia women's national volleyball team (Женска одбојкашка репрезентација Србије): Serbia's FIVB/CEV women's team, world champions 2018 and 2022, six straight EuroVolley medals through 2026 bronze, coached by Giovanni Guidetti, starring Tijana Bošković.
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU/SASA, Српска академија наука и уметности), Serbia's national academy, founded by King Milan Obrenović's 1886 law in Niš; Belgrade seat, eight departments, 91 full members, 1986 Memorandum controversy.
Serbian Action
Serbian Action (Србска Акција) is a Serbian clerical fascist, accelerationist far-right group founded in 2010, tied to the Russian Imperial Movement and formerly Golden Dawn, seeking an Orthodox monarchy.
Serbian Air Force and Air Defence (Ратно ваздухопловство и противваздушна одбрана)
The Serbian Air Force and Air Defence is the air arm of the Serbian Armed Forces, founded in 1912 and one of the earliest air forces.
Serbian Armed Forces (Војска Србије)
Serbian Armed Forces (Војска Србије), the military of the Republic of Serbia under the Ministry of Defence and General Staff. Three missions, eight branches, conscription suspended in 2011; militarily neutral, active UN peacekeeping contributor, 2024 spending $2.322 billion (2.85% of GDP).
Serbian Army (Копнена војска Србије)
Serbian Army (Копнена војска Србије), the land forces branch of the Serbian Armed Forces: largest and oldest branch, headquartered in Niš, ten brigade-size units plus six battalions, tracing its origins to 1808.
Serbian campaign
Serbian campaign: the Central Powers' operations against the Kingdom of Serbia in 1914-1915 (Serbian campaign of 1914), from the 28 July 1914 declaration of war through Cer and Kolubara to the 1915 collapse, the Albanian retreat, and the Serbian army's return on the Salonika Front.
Serbian Chetnik Movement (1990)
The Serbian Chetnik Movement (Srpski četnički pokret, SČP) was a Serbian nationalist party founded by Vojislav Šešelj on 18 June 1990; denied registration, it polled about 100,000 votes in December 1990 and merged into the Serbian Radical Party in 1991.
Serbian Chetnik Organization
The Serbian Chetnik Organization (Српска четничка организација), or Serbian Revolutionary Organization, was a Serbian paramilitary group formed in 1903 to liberate Kosovo and Macedonia from Ottoman rule.
Serbian cuisine
Serbian cuisine (Srpska kuhinja, Српска кухиња), the national cuisine of Serbia: meat-centred Balkan cooking with Turkish, Austro-Hungarian and Mediterranean influences, known for ćevapi, sarma, kajmak, ajvar, rakija and kafana culture.
Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (српска ћирилица, azbuka, vukovica) is the 30-letter official script of Serbia, shaped by Vuk Karadžić's 1818 reform on a one-sound-one-letter principle, used digraphically with Gaj Latin.