List of Serb countries and regions

Main article: History of the Serbs

The term Serbian lands has been used for medieval Serbian state creations, for Serb-inhabited territories in the Ottoman and Habsburg period (15th–19th century), and in political-geopraphical use[1] since the independence of Serbia and Montenegro. During the Yugoslav wars it was used for the ethnic unification of Serbs through union of Serbia, Montenegro, Republika Srpska and Republic of Srpska Krajina.

History

The "medieval Serbian lands" included Serbian tribes, polities and monarchies, such as Raška, Serbian Empire, etc.[1]

Roots of the Greater Serbian ideology are often traced back to Serbian minister Ilija Garašanin's Načertanije (1844),[2] who envisioned a reconstruction of the Serbian Empire and unification of "Serbian lands", which included Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, northern Albania, parts of Dalmatia and the Habsburg Military Frontier.[3]

In 1857, while traveling across "Ancient Serbia", Alexander Fedorovich Gilferding (1831-1872), a Russian Slavist and travel writer of German origin, wrote: "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".[4]

The term was used by political theorist Dobrica Ćosić for the ethnic unification of Serbs through union of Serbia, Montenegro, Republika Srpska and Republic of Srpska Krajina during the Yugoslav wars (1991–95).[5]


Middle Ages

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,[6] Konavle, Bosnia and Rascia into Serbia, "ι Σερβλια").[7][8] He took over regions previously held by Michael of Zahumlje, who disappears from sources in 925.[6] 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.[8]
Principalities
Kingdom of Duklja (Doclea) 1030s-1186 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
Kingdom of Syrmia 1282–1325 Serbia
BiH
Serbian Empire 1345-1371 Serbia
Macedonia
Montenegro
Albania
Greece
Bulgaria
dissolution of Serbian Empire into:
Duchy of Saint Sava (till 1449 Duchy of Hum and the Coast) 1448–1483 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Montenegro
Serbia
Croatia
Serbian Despotate 1402-1459 (titular Serbian despots existed until 1537 in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary) Serbia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Montenegro
Albania

1526-1918

Image Map Name Years Area Notes
State of Jovan Nenad 1526-1527 Serbia
Romania
Hungary
Croatia
Duchy of Syrmia of Radoslav Čelnik 1527–1530 Serbia
Croatia
Military Frontier 1579–1882 Serbia
Croatia
Romania
Hungary
Habsburg Kingdom of Serbia 1718–1739 Serbia
Kingdom of Slavonia 1745–1868 Serbia
Croatia
New Serbia 1752–1764 Ukraine
Slavo-Serbia 1753–1764 Ukraine
Koča's Frontier 1788–1791 Serbia
Karađorđe's Serbia 1804–1813 Serbia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Montenegro
Bulgaria
Princedom of Serbia 1817–1882 Serbia
Serbian Voivodeship 1848–1849 Serbia
Croatia
Hungary
Romania
Voivodeship of Serbia and Tamiš Banat 1849–1860 Serbia
Romania
Hungary
Kingdom of Serbia 1882–1918 Serbia
Republic of Macedonia

1918-1990s

Since 1990s

Present political entities

Countries and territories with a Serb ethnic majority (Serbia and Republika Srpska) and minority (Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Kosovo) in 2010.

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:

Diaspora

Main article: Serb diaspora

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Vuković & Vemić 2014.
  2. ↑ Cohen, Philip J.; Riesman, David (1996). Serbia's Secret War: Propaganda and the Deceit of History. Texas A&M University Press. p. 3. ISBN 0-89096-760-1.
  3. ↑ Balazs Trencsenyi; Michal Kopecek (1 November 2006). National Romanticism: The Formation of National Movements. Central European University Press. pp. 240–. ISBN 978-963-7326-60-8.
  4. ↑ "Elements Of Ethnic Identification Of The Serbs" (PDF): 727.
  5. ↑ Dejan Jović (January 2009). Yugoslavia: A State that Withered Away. Purdue University Press. pp. 135–. ISBN 978-1-55753-495-8.
  6. 1 2 The entry of the Slavs into Christendom, p. 209
  7. ↑ The early medieval Balkans, p. 160
  8. 1 2 Južnoslavensko pitanje, p. 48
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "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. Retrieved 2007-05-15.

Sources

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