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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.
A map of the 14th-century Serbian Empire. Following the growing nationalistic tendency in Europe from the 18th century onwards, such as the Unification of Italy, Serbia – after first gaining its principality within the Ottoman Empire in 1817 – experienced a popular desire for full unification with the Serbs of the remaining territories, mainly those living in neighbouring entities.
Ottoman Serbia. Jovan Nenad's Uprising (1526–1527) Long War (1593–1606) Banat Uprising (1594) Herzegovina Uprising (1596–1597) Great Turkish War (1683–1699) Kočina Krajina Serb rebellion (1788) Slaughter of the Knezes (1804) Ottoman expansion in Europe ended with their defeat in the Great Turkish War in 1699. [6]
The history of modern Serbia began with the fight for liberation from the Ottoman occupation in 1804 (Serbian Revolution).The establishment of modern Serbia was marked by the hard-fought autonomy from the Ottoman Empire in the First Serbian Uprising in 1804 and the Second Serbian Uprising in 1815, though Turkish troops continued to garrison the capital, Belgrade, until 1867.
Monument to Karađorđe and Church of Saint Sava in Belgrade. Serbian nationalism asserts that Serbs are a nation and promotes the cultural and political unity of Serbs. [1] It is an ethnic nationalism, [1] originally arising in the context of the general rise of nationalism in the Balkans under Ottoman rule, under the influence of Serbian linguist Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and Serbian ...
The Serbian Revolution (Serbian: Српска револуција / Srpska revolucija) was a national uprising and constitutional change in Serbia that took place between 1804 and 1835, during which this territory evolved from an Ottoman province into a rebel territory, a constitutional monarchy, and modern Serbia.
Pan-Slavism and Yugoslavism versus Pan-Serbism, in the Kingdom of Serbia and Serb community in Austria-Hungary. Serb unification in the Balkan Wars and World War I, and Austrian thwarting of Serbian expansion and influence. [2] Creation of the Serbian Banovina in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1940. [3] Status of Serbia (and Serbs) within SFR ...
Serbia's strategic location between two continents has subjected it to invasions by many foreign armies. The Thracians dominated Serbia before the Illyrian migration in the southwest. [4] Greeks colonized the south in the 4th century BC, the northernmost point of the empire of Alexander the Great being the town of Kale. [5]