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A community of Serbian refugees was allowed to settle after World War I, and more refugees came after World War II. [8] Logan Square, Chicago, Illinois, United States; Goodrich–Kirtland Park, Cleveland, Ohio, United States; Most Serbs lived in the area north of Superior Ave between East 20th and 40th streets.
Although Republika Srpska is variously glossed in English as “Serb Republic”, [13] “Bosnian Serb Republic”, [14] or “Republic of Srpska”, the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and English-language news sources such as the BBC, [15] The New York Times, [16] and The Guardian [17] generally refer to the entity by its transliteration.
The Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serbian Cyrillic: Срби Босне и Херцеговине, romanized: Srbi Bosne i Hercegovine), often referred to as Bosnian Serbs (Serbian Cyrillic: босански Срби, romanized: bosanski Srbi) or Herzegovinian Serbs (Serbian Cyrillic: херцеговачки Срби, romanized: hercegovački Srbi), are native and one of the three ...
The “All-Serb Assembly” with a slogan “One People, One Gathering” included thousands of Bosnian Serbs and those who traveled to the Serbian capital, Belgrade, from neighboring countries ...
The Three-finger salute, also called the "Serb salute", is a popular expression for ethnic Serbs and Serbia, originally expressing Serbian Orthodoxy and today simply being a symbol for ethnic Serbs and the Serbian nation, made by extending the thumb, index, and middle fingers of one or both hands.
During World War I one of the most important commanders in the Serbian army was Pavle Jurišić Šturm, a Serbian general, who was according to Serbian sources of Sorbian origin. [8] However, he is not mentioned in any Sorbian sources. In 1944 Sorb writer Jurij Chěžka was killed in Serbia, reportedly on his way to join Yugoslav Partisans. [9]
Names of the Serbs and Serbia are terms and other designations referring to general terminology and nomenclature on the Serbs (Serbian: Срби, Srbi, pronounced) and Serbia (Serbian: Србија/Srbija, pronounced). Throughout history, various endonyms and exonyms have been used in reference to ethnic Serbs and their lands.
A large part of the Serb population was expelled or forced to flee in order to survive. [73] Serbian estimations put the number of expelled at around 100,000; an estimated 40,000 from the Italian-occupation zone, 30,000 from the German zone, and 25,000 from the Bulgarian zone. [74]