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There are about 120,000 Serbs in France today. They are located mainly in the regions of Paris, Lyon, Grenoble, Belfort, Mulhouse, Montbéliard and Strasbourg . The first wave of Serbs in France came together with other southern Europeans ( Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Greeks ).
Serbs in France Serbes en France Срби у Француској Srbi u Francuskoj; Total population; 62,740 (Serbian nationals, 2018 estimate) [1] – 200,000 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs Serbian) [2]
France is also an EU member and Serbia is an EU candidate. There are between 70,000 and 100,000 people of Serbian descent living in France. Emmanuel Macron visited Serbia during July 2019. The last official visit of the French President to Serbia took place in September 2024. [4]
The Yugoslav wars caused many Serbs from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to leave their countries in the first half of the 1990s. The international economic sanctions imposed on Serbia caused economic collapse with an estimated 300,000 people leaving Serbia during that period, 20% of which had a higher education.
The idea launched by Serb nationalists that all Serbs living in the Western Balkans should be part of the same political sphere and live in a joint state led to the breakup of the former ...
The Serbs share many cultural traits with the rest of the peoples of Southeast Europe. They are predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christians by religion. The Serbian language (a standardized version of Serbo-Croatian) is official in Serbia, co-official in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is spoken by the plurality in Montenegro.
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