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	Serbian cross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Serbian Cross (српски крст/srpski krst) is a Greek cross which has C-shapes on each of its four corners.
		It is the national, religious and ethnic symbol of Serbs and Serbia.
		The Serbian Cross is commonly seen on the Serbian tricolor (red, blue, white) and on other Serbian flags.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Serbian_cross (182 words)

	Bread instead of soldiers - Salon
		Serbian authorities control most aspects of their daily life, from visas to license plates to customs to the bank accounts from which staff get paid.
		The head of the Serbian Red Cross, part of the YRC, is an executive member of Milosevic's political party, and Milosevic's wife is a major supporter of the organization.
		Although the International Federation of the Red Cross says the aid diversion was relatively tiny (only 0.7 percent of the total volume) and that it has since helped the YRC set up better auditing mechanisms, the incident was a turning point for Western governments.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2000/08/07/aid/index1.html (956 words)

	Serbia - IBWiki
		The medieval Serbian state was re-formed in the Raška region, northwards Doclea, in nowadays Sanjak, in the 12th century by the Serbian Grand Duke Stevan Nemanja, who was parent of the House of Nemanjic.
		Serbian motto is For the King and the Motherland (Serbian: Дља Краља и Отечество).
		Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries (a great number of which is in nowadays Sanjak), built largely in the Middle Ages, are one of the most valuable and visible traces of medieval Serbia's association with the Byzantium.
	ib.frath.net /w/Serbia (2636 words)

	Serbian Spruce
		Serbian spruces reach their mature height in 50 to 60 years.
		While most Spruces have needles that are square when cut in cross section, Serbian spruce foliage is similar to that of hemlocks and firs whose needles are flat.
		The flowers of Serbian spruces are soft cones, greenish male ones clustering around the ends of the lower branches of the tree, and orange-red female ones on the upper branches.
	www.yardener.com /SerbianSpruce.html (227 words)

	2005 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Serbia and Montenegro
		Serbian law requires students in primary and secondary schools either to attend classes from one of the seven traditional religious communities or, alternatively, to take a class in civic education.
		Serbian government antitrafficking efforts were led by an antitrafficking coordinator who was the chief of the border police and incorporated government agencies, NGOs, and international organizations.
		UNMIK continued to encourage the Serbian government to accelerate its cooperation on transferring identified remains of Kosovar victims of the 1999 war found in mass graves in Serbia; however, progress was slow.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61673.htm (18896 words)

	Main page, The First American Serbian Highflier Club
		In 13th and 14th century the Illyrian Pigeon was bred as Archangel Pigeon in Serbian monasteries.
		In 1389 an invading Ottoman army inflicted heavy casualties on the Serbian army, leading to the subsequent conquest of all Serbia by the Ottoman Empire in 1459 and driving many Serbs northward.
		In Yugoslavia various clubs of Serbian Highflier fanciers stage many competition annually in flights of well trained flocks whose quality is primary judged by the number of hours what they spent in prescribe altitude.
	www.serbianhighflier.com /images/mainpage.htm (1315 words)

	SERBIAN MEDICAL SOCIETY
		SERBIAN MILITARY MEDICAL CORPS consists of objects and documents related to the work of our military medical corps from its founding (1840), through all the wars fought by Serbia “for independence and culture,” until the formation of the Yugoslav state (1919).
		SERBIAN MEDICAL SOCIETY consists of pictures, objects, and documents that represent over 125 years of this Society’s work, which in addition to the Serbian Registry, the Serbian lycées, Vujić’s theatre, as well as the founding Karlovac and Belgrade secondary schools, has become a part of Serbian history.
		SERBIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY is a collection of documents, photographs, and some objects that are related to the founding and initial year of work of the Serbian Red Cross Society.
	www.sld.org.yu /en/muzej.asp (501 words)

	Republic of Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
		The four firesteel-like elements surrounding a cross already appeared in the 14th century flag of the Byzantine Paleologues dinasty.
		The cross and circles device must be the cross and 4 C's (fire stalkers).
		Flag: serbian tricolour with the cross and four Cs in the centre.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/ba_serbs.html (2233 words)

	Orthodox Church Flags
		Many Christian countries began to use the Cross as their country's flag, and, in research on this question, I've found more than 1300 flags with crosses on them (in one form or another), and I'm sure there are more which I haven't found.
		Behind the mantling is, crossed per saltire, a Bishop's staff (in the style of the Greek Church) and a staff with the cross on it's top.
		Describing it, one could say that there is a white cross at the center, with a red cross behind it, and behind that another white cross with a blue cross behind it, all on a white field.
	www.fotw.us /flags/rel-orth.html (2812 words)

	Croatian and Bosnian Muslim Infantry Attack on Stalingrad \| Carl Savich \| Columns \| Serbianna.com
		Pavelic’s initial plan was to deport and kill the Serbian, Jewish, and Roma populations and to resettle their land with Croats and Slovenes.
		In September, 1942, the German Iron Cross 2nd class was awarded to Bosnian Muslim Sergeant Dzafer Babovic and Lt. Josip Zambata of the regiment for combat on the southern sector.
		Sanne awarded Pavicic the Iron Cross 1st class on October 16 in Stalingrad for “excellent leadership of the Croatian Legionnaire unit.” Pavicic had earlier been the commander of the Croatian Military Academy in the NDH and had been in the Army or Domobranstvo of the NDH.
	www.serbianna.com /columns/savich/045.shtml (5042 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Evelina Haverfield
		She served in Serbia as a hospital administrator and was part of a small group taken prisoner when the armies of the Central Powers overran Serbia in October and November 1915.
		By early 1917, with the fighting on the eastern front over, and unable to return to Serbia because of the enemy occupation there, Evelina returned to England, where she remained until after the Armistice of November 1918.
		It was there, in Baijna Bashta, that she contracted pneumonia, probably brought on by overwork and fatigue, and died prematurely at the age of 52, revered and honoured by the Serbs for her five years of humanitarian work on their behalf.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/haverfield.htm (563 words)

	Serbian Martyrology
		In the late 16th century the Turks hanged the Serbian Patriarch John Kantul because he supported a national movement for liberation, and Bishop Theodore of Vrshac was skinned alive in 1595 for the same reason.
		In the beginning of the 18th century the Serbian Orthodox Church in Dalmatia, which at that time was under the domain of the Venetian Republic, endured bitter persecution due to their Orthodox beliefs, which fostered their desire for national rights.
		For, as all pious Orthodox Christians believe, the Cross was the first step in the Lord's final victory over the devil and his power; and the Lord's Resurrection, the summit of this victory, granted true freedom to all those who endured.
	www.serfes.org /orthodox/serbianmartyrs.htm (2642 words)

	Serbia Info News / Return on Kosovo and Metohija
		Serbian Red Cross official Goran Nikolic said humanitarian aid from the Pcinjski district had also arrived in Kosovo Polje today.
		In Pristina arrived this evening also the Yugoslav Red Cross secretary Rade Dubajic and Serbian Red Cross secretary Radmila Cvetkovic, with their collaborates, who talked, with the representatives of the Interim executive committee and of the Red Cross representatives for the province, about the process of return and reception of the displaced persons.
		The number of Serbs, who returned from Serbian cities and willing to go home as soon as possible, at a reception center in Zubin Potok, also in the north of the province, has also gone up.
	www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-06/23/12822.html (760 words)

	SOC
		It was thus a weakened Serbian Orthodox Church that had to define its response to the events which tore Yugoslavia to shreds in the nineties.
		Serbian priests I interviewed several years ago estimated that perhaps five percent of the population were engaged in the Church in a significant way, with the vast majority of unbaptized.
		Many of the Serbian Church's present bishops and priests were among her most dissident clergy and her most persecuted confessors in the days of communism.
	www.kosovo.net /soctxt.html (3720 words)

	Medals.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Cross was awarded by the Board of the Red Cross Society, with the approval of the Chancellor of Royal Orders, for exceptional merit and services rendered to the Society in time of war or peace, for care and assistance of the sick and wounded, philanthropy and personal merit.
		The Cross was worn suspended from white ribbon; in 1912 the War Ribbon was introduced, being white with red edge stripes.
		The Medal was awarded to males and females, Serbian or foreign nationals, for active part taken in the care after sick and wounded during the war time.
	www.royalfamily.org /history/medals17.htm (234 words)

	Reverse ethnic cleansing: a post-war visit to Serbia and Kosovo
		In the case of the Serbian Democratic Party this remoteness from the public has been compounded by the fact that the party’s leader, Zoran Djindjic, left the country during the NATO bombardment and is widely regarded as a traitor.
		Several Serbian observers think that the presence of political leaders like Djindjic or Draskovic who both have a reputation for changing their views radically and falling out with allies to the discredit of the opposition has a limiting effect on protests all politicians in Serbia.
		However the streets in the Serbian part of town are clean (which may have given the impression that it escaped damage) unlike the Albanian area where rubbish in the form of clothes, rotting food and animal carcases lines the streets.
	www.agitprop.org.au /stopnato/19990722bhhrg.php (5140 words)

	First World War.com - Feature Articles - The Life of Evelina Haverfield - Supporting Serbs from London - and Women's ...
		Behind the liberating army, two S.W.H. units moved in to the devastated country to alleviate the suffering of the population, which was swept by typhus, pneumonia, and Spanish flu.
		As soon as the Serbian authorities could permit visitors into Serbia, Evelina returned as a Commissioner of the Serbian Red Cross Society in Great Britain, to supervise the shipment and distribution of supplies to needy Serbians throughout the country.
		When this task was completed in early 1919, and she had returned home, she began to plan for the care of some of the many Serbian children orphaned by the war.
	www.firstworldwar.com /features/haverfield_11.htm (523 words)

	FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
		Staro Cikatovo is located close to the Feronikl plant, which at times since early 1998 has served as a base of operations by Serbian security forces against KLA insurgents active in the area.
		Serbian forces had inflicted a fair amount of damage on Staro Cikatovo long before the March 1999 offensive.
		For the most part, however, the remaining residents were left undisturbed during this period, although they were frightened by the threats made during their detention in the school.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1999/glogovac/Glog997-04.htm (2334 words)

	Health Care- Canadian Red Cross
		To help, Red Cross is delivering life-saving services to many in their homes through mobile health and social service teams.
		The Canadian Red Cross is providing funding and a home care specialist in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to help revitalize the home care program and strategically plan for the future.
		Her mission in Vojvodina was to evaluate the pilot phase of the Home Care Programme, a project of the Serbian Red Cross.
	www.redcross.ca /print.asp?id=009334 (937 words)

	prisoners in Serbian jails 01 / missing persons
		Just five kilometers down the road from the cemetery where the Serbian group is looking for answers about its missing, lies the town of Suva Reka where 43 Albanian women and children were killed in March of 1999.
		The Association has numerous files on exactly such cases: in June, 1999, the entire Sutakovic family was abducted: father, mother, and their three sons, ages 20, 18 and 12; on July 17, 1988, on the outskirts of Orahovac the Baljosevic family was abducted -- father, mother, son, daughter-in-law and 13-month-old baby.
		According to the Association -- and its data is not disputed by the International Committee of the Red Cross -- 20 percent of the missing Serbs on their list were abducted before the NATO bombing started on March 24, 1999, five percent during the bombing, and 75 percent after the arrival of peacekeepers in Kosovo.
	www.bndlg.de /~wplarre/prisoners-in-Serbian-jails-01.htm (3322 words)

	The American Red Cross During WWI \| ARC \| Chapter V, Work Elsewhere Overseas \| Medical Front WWI
		A permanent Red Cross Commission for Italy was appointed in the fall of 1918 and arrived in Rome during the latter part of December.
		Relief was extended by the Red Cross to destitute children and aged persons repatriated by the Germans through Switzerland, interned Allied soldiers, interned civilians of the United States and Allies, and to Swiss families whose sons or fathers were in the service of the United States or Allied Governments.
		Although the American Red Cross had representatives in the Balkans as early as the winter of 1914-1915, relief activities did not assume large proportions until the summer of 1918, when commissions were sent to Serbia and Roumania.
	www.vlib.us /medical/Arc/ARC5.htm (5381 words)

	CRIN - Child Rights Information Network - Resources -
		It found that the Serbian authorities and Serbian Red Cross were meeting the immediate humanitarian need of the affected communities – but that the needs of two groups of young people had not been addressed in the initial response.
		The Red Cross told Save the Children that there were 31 children in the refugee centre, including 15 babies who lacked nappies and simple hygiene items.
		The Serbian Red Cross estimates that 7,165 families have been affected by landslides and floods in 30 municipalities.
	www.crin.org /resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=8014 (473 words)

	Life of Newly Canonized Holy Hierarch Saint Nicholai (Velimirovic) of Ochrid and Zicha Serbia
		On May 19, 2003, the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, with one heart and one voice, unanimously decided to enter Bishop Nicholai (Velimirovic) of Ohrid and Zicha into the calendar of saints of our Holy Orthodox Church.
		He returned to Serbian in 1919 and was elected and consecrated a bishop that same year, at age 39.
		Serbian Patriarch Gavrilo and Bishop Nicholai were sent to the infamous Dachau concentration camp, where — although they suffered horribly — they both survived the war.
	www.serfes.org /lives/holyhierarchsaintnicholai.htm (1573 words)

	Touchstone Archives: Not the Chaplain of Ethnic Cleansing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It was thus a weakened Serbian Orthodox Church that had to define its response to the events that tore Yugoslavia to shreds in the nineties.
		Two Serbian friends of mine had to delay their wedding in Belgrade, having decided they would not allow a priest to bless their marriage whose main interest was his fee.
		Sava arrived to deliver aid packages in the war-ravaged village of Crnobreg last November, he was dismayed to discover the sign of the cross had been painted on many walls and gates—clearly the work of Serbian security forces who often make use of “the Serbian cross” in the fight against ethnic Albanian separatists.
	www.touchstonemag.com /archives/article.php?id=12-03-057-r (1865 words)

	Foundation
		Mihajlo Jovanovic, the Head of Serbian Orthodox Church, was elected as the President of new charitable Society.
		For the period of the crisis in the territory of ex-Yugoslavia in 90s of XX century, the former components of the Red Cross of Yugoslavia (from Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina) left this society.
		On August 3rd 1993, The International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed the recognition of the Yugoslav Red Cross and its continuous activity since the international recognition of the Montenegrin and Serbian societies of 1876.
	www.jck.org.yu /foundation/found.htm (498 words)

	pieces050399
		Brooks was later awarded the Distinguished Service Cross during a battle at Argonne-Meuse, when he took over command of a platoon after the lieutenant was seriously wounded.
		Receiving the Serbian War Cross was a former Covington woman, Gertrude Orr.
		In 1919 Gov. James D. Black authorized formation of a Serbian Relief Committee in Kentucky to aid children who had either lost their parents or become separated from them during the war.
	www.kypost.com /opinion/pieces050399.html (1475 words)

	Red Cross Red Crescent - News
		On April 18, 254 children from 75 cities in Serbia and Bosnia, accompanied by the Red Cross workers, arrived in Belgrade en route to Athens for an Easter holiday.
		Milenovic says that raising funds for the programme in Serbia is difficult, so the Hellenic Red Cross and Greek families cover most of the cost.
		Sladjana Dimic has been coordinating the programme since 1993 and she remembers the time in 1995 when she and her colleagues were accompanying 1,360 children crowded into 11 train wagons.
	www.ifrc.org /docs/news/03/03042901 (1042 words)

	ERPKIM Archive \| Explosion at UN Mission in Kosovo, March 12, 2005
		He underlined that the task and obligation of not only the International Committee of the Red Cross, but the international community as a whole, is to secure conditions for the return of internally displaced persons to their homes.
		President of the Serbian National Council of Central Kosovo, Dragan Velic, explained that reasons for launching the petition are the catastrophic conditions and overall horrible situation for the Serb population in Kosovo, for which Jessen-Petersen is largely to be blamed.
		The main focus of the Info-Service is the life of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Serbian community in the Province of Kosovo and Metohija.
	www.kosovo.net /news/archive/2005/March_12/1.html (1254 words)

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