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 :All this bickering is getting us nowhere. I am going to address the issue of the name ""Serbia"" to finally end this.  
 *FACT #1: The German military authorities called this territory ""Serbia"" as in the ""Military Administration in Serbia"". 
 *FACT #2: Whatever the status of the puppet government, as a puppet state or puppet region, the government considered the territory to be ""Serbia"", there was a currency put out by the government of Nedic that said ""Serbia"" on it, with the Serbian double-headed eagle on it. Here is the Serbian dinar of 1941 that says ""Serbian National Bank"", indicating the existence of an entity of Serbia. 
 *FACT #3: Many World War II maps label this territory as ""Serbia"". 
 *FACT #4: Much if not all of this territory has been historically associated with Serbia whether as an Ottoman province, principality, or independent state. 
 *The combination of these four facts demonstrates that the term ""Serbia"" best describes this entity. The term ""Serbia"" should not be assumed to connote an independent state simply because an independent Serbia exists today, as a ""Serbia"" existed as a principality of the Ottoman Empire for years. Now as for whether Serbia was an independent state: from what I have read what we do know is that the Nedic government did attempt to make Serbia an independent state like Croatia under Axis rule. The regime produced its own currency and connected itself with the Serbian nation, i.e. ""Serbian National Bank"". However the situation in Serbia was like that of Belgium that was also under a German ""Military Administration"". This must be considered because within the Military Administration, Belgium was not an independent state. Still in places like Belgium and the Netherlands that had no independent states, there were puppet administrations and self-proclaimed leaders, such as Anton Mussert claiming to be the ""Leader of the Dutch Nation"". My conclusion is that the Serbian government under Nedic was attempting to gain recognition of Serbia as an independent state, like other Axis puppets tried to do, whether he got it needs to be demonstrated.  "