Editing Transport in Serbia (section)

===Historical preview===
[[File:Autoput80.jpg|thumb|[[Brotherhood and Unity Highway|Brotherhood and Unity motorway]] in [[Yugoslavia]]|left]]
The [[Brotherhood and Unity Highway]] was one of the first motorways of Central-Eastern Europe. Opened as early as 1950, it became the backbone of Yugoslav road system, and linked Belgrade through [[Zagreb]] and [[Ljubljana]] with Austrian border, and through [[Niš]] and [[Skopje]] with Greek border. It became the main road link between Central Europe and South-Eastern Europe and Middle East. Nowadays, the section going from Belgrade to the Croatian border is known as the [[A3 motorway (Serbia)|A3]], and links Serbia directly by motorway to Slovenia, Italy, Austria and the rest of Western Europe. While the section linking Belgrade to Niš and further to the border with [[North Macedonia]] is the [[A1 motorway (Serbia)|A1 motorway]] and stretches all the way until [[Athens]], passing through Skopje and [[Thessaloniki]]. With the break-up of Yugoslavia and the geostrategical change, the A1 was linked with the motorway linking Belgrade further North towards [[Novi Sad]], [[Subotica]] and the border with [[Hungary]] going all way until [[Budapest]]. In Niš, the motorway has an extension that runs through [[Pirot]] towards the border with Bulgaria, linking it further with Bulgarian capital [[Sofia]] and running all the way until [[Istanbul]] becoming the most accessible motorway linking the Balkans with Turkey, Middle East and rest of Asia.