Belgrade

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level