List of Serb countries and regions

Part of a series of articles on
Serbs
Main article: History of the Serbs

This is a list of Serb countries and regions throughout history, called Serbian lands[1] by historians (Serbian: Српске земље, Srpske zemlje). It includes empires, countries, states, provinces, regions and territories that have or had in the past one of the following characteristics:

It also includes states of Prehistoric Serbia (States within or part of present Serbian territory).

Contents

Prehistoric Serbia

Historical political entities

Early

Map Name Years Area Notes
White Serbia or Bojka  ? The location of White Serbia has been disputed. It has been described as: Traditional homeland of the White Serbs in Europe.[7]
Serbian Sklavinia fl. 610-641 (680) Balkans

Monarchy

Image Map Name Years Area Notes
Serbian Principality ~768-969 Serbia
BiH
Montenegro
Croatia
Albania		 Held by the Vlastimirović dynasty. Časlav (r. 927-960) liberated the Serbian principalities from Bulgarian rule in 927. He enlarged Serbia, uniting the tribes of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Old Serbia and Montenegro (incorporated Zeta, Pagania, Zahumlje, Travunia[8], Konavle, Bosnia and Rascia into Serbia, "ι Σερβλια").[9][10] He took over regions previously held by Michael of Zahumlje, who disappears from sources in 925.[8] De Administrando Imperio describes his realm: the shores of the Adriatic Sea, the Sava river and the Morava valley as well as today's northern Albania.[10]
Serbian Principality [Duklja] 1000-1148 Serbia
BiH
Montenegro
Croatia
Albania
Serbian Grand Principality [Rascia] 1091-1217 Serbia
BiH
Montenegro
Croatia
Albania
Macedonia
Serbian Kingdom 1217-1345 Serbia
BiH
Montenegro
Croatia
Albania
Macedonia
Serbian Empire 1345-1371 Serbia
Macedonia
Montenegro
Albania
Greece
Bulgaria
Fall of the Serbian Empire
Serbian Despotate

In Exile / Short-lived / Titular

Modern political entities

Present political entities

This is the list of the current states and regions where Serbs are in absolute or relative ethnic majority, are one of the constitutional or recognized peoples or Serbian language is official:

Serbian lands-term

In 1857, while traveling across "Ancient Serbia", Alexander Fedorovich Gilferding (1831-1872), a Russian Slavist and travel writer of German origin, notes that "an Orthodox Serb, wherever he might live – in Bosnia, Herzegovina, Dalmatia, Hungary, Principality of Serbia – has, besides a church, one great homeland, Serbian land, which is, to tell the truth, divided among many masters, but it exists as an ideal, as the land of the unified Orthodox Serbian nation. He has his own oral tradition, folklore; he knows about Serbian Saint Sava, Serbian Emperor Dušan, Serbian martyr Lazar, hero Kraljević Marko. His current life rests upon the foundations of his nation and it is permeated with the previous historical life of the nation".[12]

References

  1. ^ E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936
  2. ^ Google books search
  3. ^ Google books search
  4. ^ Google books search
  5. ^ Google books search
  6. ^ Google books search
  7. ^ Projekat Rastko Cetinje - Petar Vlahovic: The Serbian Origin of the Montenegrins.
  8. ^ a b The entry of the Slavs into Christendom, p. 209
  9. ^ The early medieval Balkans, p. 160
  10. ^ a b Južnoslavensko pitanje, p. 48
  11. ^ a b c d e f g "Information on the status of Serbian people in the neighbouring countries, Ministry for Diaspora, Republic of Serbia". Archived from the original on 2007-11-24. http://web.archive.org/web/20071124130346/http://www.mzd.sr.gov.yu/_eng/polozaj_srba_u_okruzenju.asp. Retrieved 2007-05-15. 
  12. ^ Elements Of Ethnic Identification Of The Serbs 727

See also