Belgrade

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.

• 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.

• Beograd

• Belgrader
• Belgradian

• Belgarde

• IPA^(key): /bɛl.ɡʁad/

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Belgrade f

1. Belgrade (the capital city of Serbia)