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Old Serbia and Macedonia, map by Jovan Cvijić ca. 1915. Old Serbia already encompasses the whole of Kosovo, Sandjak and most of North Macedonia and per its author was populated by Serbs. Ethnographic maps showing the Macedonian region and Old Serbia were part of a wider conflict involving similar competing maps of the region that was played ...
The Principality of Serbia (Modern Serbian: Кнежевина Србија / Kneževina Srbija) was one of the early medieval states of the Serbs, located in the western regions of Southeastern Europe. It existed from the 8th century up to c. 969–971 and was ruled by the Vlastimirović dynasty.
Early historical mentions of other Serb-sounding names that some researchers are trying to connect with the Serb people. In the same book where he mentioned people named Serboi, Claudius Ptolemy also mentioned city named Serbinum in Pannonia. [6] Ancient geographer Strabo mentioned that river Xanthos in Lycia was formerly named Sirbis. [7]
Lepenski Vir site in Serbia. First human settlement in Europe is Iron Gates Mesolithic (11000 to 6000 BC), located in Danube River, in modern Serbia and Romania.It has been described as "the first city in Europe", [3] [4] due to its permanency, organisation, as well as the sophistication of its architecture and construction techniques.
The History of the Serbs spans from the Early Middle Ages to present. [1] Serbs, a South Slavic people, traditionally live mainly in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and North Macedonia. A Serbian diaspora dispersed people of Serb descent to Western Europe, North America and Australia.
Early Slavs, especially Sclaveni and Antae, including the White Serbs, invaded and settled Southeastern Europe in the 6th and 7th century. [48] Up until the late 560s, their activity was raiding, crossing from the Danube, though with limited Slavic settlement mainly through Byzantine foederati colonies. [ 49 ]
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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 ...