>Serbia as a part of Yugoslavia will be counted to the east anyway. From my POV the east starts 5 kilometers away - just the other bank of the river. :)
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>And this is common. Moroco is counted to the orient. There is not much of the occident that far west. (Hence the arabic Maghreb - west - for that area, only that this starts with Lybia what is a bit in the east)

In that sense, the east begins 60 km south of here... on turkish side of Belgrade :). OTOH, I heard that the Balkans begin(s?) in Schillerstrasse in München.