Belgrade

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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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  • Rhymes: -eɪd
  • IPA(key): /ˈbɛlɡɹeɪd/
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Belgrade

  1. The capital city of Serbia; former capital of Yugoslavia; former capital of Serbia and Montenegro.
  2. (metonymically) The Serbian or Yugoslav government.
    • 2007, John Laughland, chapter 8, in Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milošević and the Corruption of International Justice, London: Pluto Press, →ISBN, page 170:
      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.

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Belgrade f

  1. Belgrade (the capital city of Serbia)
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