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The international name Slivovitz is derived from Serbian. [202] Plum and its products are of great importance to Serbs and part of numerous customs. [203] A Serbian meal usually starts or ends with plum products and Šljivovica is served as an aperitif. [203] A saying goes that the best place to build a house is where a plum tree grows best. [203]
Serbian state was elevated to a kingdom in 1217, during the reign of Nemanja's son, Stefan Nemanjić. [23] In the same time, Serbian Orthodox Church was organized as an autocephalous archbishopric in 1219, [24] through the efforts of Sava, who became the patron saint of Serbs. [25] Over the next 140 years, Serbia expanded its borders.
The history of Serbia covers the historical development of Serbia and of its predecessor states, from the Early Stone Age to the present state, as well as that of the Serbian people and of the areas they ruled historically. Serbian habitation and rule has varied much through the ages, and as a result the history of Serbia is similarly elastic ...
Serbia and Bosnian Serbs strongly opposed its adoption. The rally on Saturday included Orthodox Church prayers and folk dancing and carried the main message that Serbs, wherever they live, are one ...
BELGRADE/LONDON (Reuters) -Serbian officials installed homegrown spyware on the phones of dozens of journalists and activists, Amnesty International said in a report released on Monday, citing ...
Serbia won the first major battles of the war, including the Battle of Cer, [93] and the Battle of Kolubara. [94] Despite initial success, it was eventually overpowered by the Central Powers in 1915 and Austro-Hungarian occupation of Serbia followed. Most of its army and some people retreated to Greece and Corfu, suffering immense losses on the ...
Serbia is the nation state of the Serbs, who are Serbia's dominant ethnic group.Serbs are also dominant in Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.In the 19th century, the Serbian national identity was manifested, with awareness of history and tradition, medieval heritage, cultural unity, despite Serbs living under different empires.
One of its intellectuals was the Bosnian Serb nationalist Stevan Moljević who, in 1941, proposed in a paper which was titled "Homogenous Serbia" that an even larger Greater Serbia should be created, incorporating not only Bosnia and much of Croatia but also chunks of Romania, Bulgaria, Albania and Hungary in areas where Serbs don't represent a ...