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The term Greater Serbia or Great Serbia (Serbian: Велика Србија, romanized: Velika Srbija) describes the Serbian nationalist and irredentist ideology of the creation of a Serb state which would incorporate all regions of traditional significance to Serbs, a South Slavic ethnic group, including regions outside modern-day Serbia that ...
An ideology is a collection of ideas. Typically, each ideology contains certain ideas on what it considers to be the best form of government (e.g. autocracy or democracy) and the best economic system (e.g. capitalism or socialism). The same word is sometimes used to identify both an ideology and one of its main ideas.
Serbia claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia has about 6.6 million inhabitants, excluding Kosovo. Its capital Belgrade is also the largest city. Continuously inhabited since the Paleolithic Age, the territory of modern-day Serbia faced Slavic migrations in the 6th century.
[1] [2] Some scholars believe that the prehistoric Vinča signs represent one of the earliest known forms of writing systems (dating to 6000–4000 BC). [3] 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]
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.
Jović, at the time the Serbian Minister of the Interior, organized the youth wing of the SNO into the White Eagles, [257] a paramilitary closely based on the World War II Chetnik movement, [242] and called for "a Christian, Orthodox Serbia with no Muslims and no unbelievers."
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 ...
Serbia had one of the highest birthrates in Europe with the population increasing by 71.3% between 1880-1914. [14] At least part of the population increase was due to the structure of the zadruga , which provided for sharing the burden of child-rearing while also ensuring that young man could marry without first owning land or learning a craft ...