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Belgrade

//ˈbɛlɡɹeɪd// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The capital city of Serbia; the former capital of Yugoslavia; the former capital of Serbia and Montenegro.
  2. 2
    The Serbian or Yugoslav government. metonymically

    "Prosecution witness Osman Selak claimed that the Bosnian Serb army was under the de facto control of Belgrade, as the Prosecution alleged, but under cross-examination could not produce a single example of an order issued by the Yugoslav army to the Bosnian Serb army."

Etymology

From French Belgrade, from Medieval Latin Belgradum and Belogradum, ultimately from South Slavic forms of Proto-Slavic *bělъ (“white”) and *gȏrdъ (“fortress, city”), after the white walls of its medieval fortress. Doublet of Beograd, Berat, and Belgorod.

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