very short and messy and packed piece of serbia montenegros history

Im flying to belgrad tomorrow with petra.
there is this 24-7prayer meeting.

belgrad is the capital of serbia and montenegro.
serbia montenegro again, is a country in east europe.

it used to be a part of the former Yugoslavia, when it was formed in 1918.
before that serbia montenegro was influenced by turkey, venice, hungary, bulgary and russia.

then during the second world war the area was invaded by germany and later went through civil wars. during those times ove 1 million yugoslavians were killed. communism rose after the second world war.

croatia and slovenia left yugoslavia in 1991 and that started some etnic troubles between these neighbour countries. There are still etnic conflicts in the area.
in 1999 serbia forced the albanian muslims in kosovo area to leave their homes. this led to conflicts between the kosovo and serbian armies.
nato interrupted these conflicts by attacking with airforce, mostly bombing belgrad.
the new constitutional law in 2003 defined the union republic. both serbia and montenegro have their own parliaments, pms and presidents.

about the future, serbia has been talking about becoming part of the eu, but there are some troubles with that cause they havent arrested the former leaders who would need to be in court for their deeds during the wars. montenegro is going to vote about being independant in the end of this may, so I understood from the news couple of weeks ago. the kosovo area dreams about being independant as well.

there are 10 657000 inhabitants in the country,
63% are serbs
14 albanians
6 montenegroans
4 hungarians
and 13 other

there are 65% orthodox, 19%muslims, 4% roman catholics and 1% protestants

so, if you feel like sighing a small or a bigger prayer for serbia montenegro, I guess that would be nice. :) and we dont mind with petra, if you remember our journey as well, and the time of the conference. would be cool to get the right contacts, meet with right people and be a blessing.