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The modern Serbian military dates back to the Serbian revolution which started in 1804 with the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman occupation of Serbia.The victories in the battles of Ivankovac (1805), Mišar (August 1806), Deligrad (December 1806) and Belgrade (November–December 1806), led to the establishment of the Principality of Serbia in 1817.
A well-known exhibit features parts of a US F-117 stealth aircraft which was downed by a Serbian S-125 Neva/Pechora. The Military Museum is located inside the walls of the historic Belgrade Fortress, situated at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and within a popular park known as the Kalemegdan Park, near the center of the city.
The museum houses rare exhibits about the Serbian soldiers' tragic fate during the First World War.The remnants of the Serbian Army of about 150,000 soldiers together with their government in exile, found refuge and shelter in Corfu, following the collapse of the Serbian Front as a result of the Austro-Hungarian attack that began on 6 October 1915.
The Military Archive (Serbian Cyrillic: Војни архив) of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Serbia is the primary military history archive located in Belgrade, Serbia. The institution was originally established by a decree from Prince Milan Obrenović on February 5, 1876, based on proposal of Jovan Dragašević in 1865.
Infantry uniform,1845 Group of officers, 1865. A small army was established in 1830 after the Russian victory over the Ottomans in the Russo-Turkish War (1828–29), and the signing of the Treaty of Adrianople (1829), which re-guaranteed the autonomy of Serbia as per the earlier Akkerman Convention.
The Serbian Cultural Club was founded by Dr. Slobodan Draskovic. In 2011, Serbian Cultural Club was renamed as Serbian American Museum St. Sava, "dedicated to protecting and promoting the history and culture of Serbians through a variety of undertakings."
The dominant element of the monument is the statue of the Serbian soldier with a rifle in his hand, ready to defend his country symbolised by the flag sprouting from a rock. Three crosses occurring on the monument – the cross on the top of the flag shaft, the cruciform posture of the statue and the cross in the emblem – are universal ...
The Historical Museum of Serbia was established by the decision of the People's Republic of Serbia authorities on 20 February 1963 with the new institution absorbing the Serbian Revolution Museum. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] The task of the Museum was defined in 1966 as follows: ″to collect, record, store, arrange, study and exhibit material from the history ...