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1,000 Dinara, 1931
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10 Dinara, 1968
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Front: Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Serbian-American inventor and researcher
Tesla was born in Croatia of Serbian origin. He attended the Technical University
at Graz, Austria, and the University of Prague, majoring in engineering. It was in
Graz he discovered the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most
alternating-current machinery.
He emigrated to the United States in 1884 and sold the patent rights to his system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers,
and motors to George Westinghouse the following year. In 1891 he invented the Tesla
coil, an induction coil widely used in radio technology.
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Yugoslavia, located on the east shore of the Adriatic Sea, was composed of six
autonomous republics: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia
and Montenegro with two autonomous provinces within Serbia: Kosevo-Metohija and
Vojvodina. Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia declared their
respective independence 1991-1992. Yugoslavia was renamed the Federation of
Serb and Montenegro in 2003. In May 22, 2006 voters of Montenegro decided to
sever the country's union with Serbia.
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