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The Serbs of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian: Срби у Хрватској / Srbi u Hrvatskoj) or Croatian Serbs (Serbo-Croatian: Хрватски Срби / Hrvatski Srbi) constitute the largest national minority in Croatia. The community is predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christian by religion, as opposed to the Croats who are Catholic.
The Open Letter on the Position and Status of Serbs in Croatia was sent to the addresses of prominent Croatians and Serbians in September 2008. [1] [2] The letter spoke about the adverse social and economic circumstances in which Croatian Serbs had lived.
The Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian: Genocid nad Srbima u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj / Геноцид над Србима у Независној Држави Хрватској) was the systematic persecution and extermination of Serbs committed during World War II by the fascist Ustaše regime in the Nazi German puppet state known as the Independent ...
Since 2016, anti-fascist groups, leaders of Croatia's Serb, Roma and Jewish communities and former top Croat officials have boycotted the official state commemoration for the victims of the Jasenovac concentration camp because of their view that Croatian authorities tolerate the promotion of Ustaše legacy and refuse to act against revisionist ...
Croatian and Serbian, official in Croatia and Serbia respectively, are mutually intelligible standard varieties of the Serbo-Croatian language. Between the two states, 186,633 Serbs live in Croatia with 57,900 Croats living in Serbia (as of 2011). [1] [2] Croatia has an embassy in Belgrade and a general consulate in Subotica.
From an estimated 300,000 Croatian Serbs that were murdered by the Ustaše from 1941 to 1945, [15] more than 18,000 were from Glina at its surroundings. [36] According to historians Hannes Grandits and Christian Promitzer, the massacres that occurred in the town in 1941 took the lives of approximately 2,000 Serbs. [ 46 ]
The Yugoslav People's Army confiscated the weapons of Croatia's Territorial Defence in order to minimise the possibility of violence following the elections. [16] On 17 August, 1990 inter-ethnic tensions escalated into an open revolt of the Croatian Serbs, [16] centered on the predominantly Serb-populated areas of the Dalmatian hinterland around Knin, [17] and parts of Lika, Kordun, Banovina ...
Since 2018, Archive of Serbs in Croatia has co-published the journal Tragovi: Journal for Serbian and Croatian Topics. [1] Edited by Dejan Jović, this academic publication concentrates on Croatia–Serbia relations and encompasses a multidisciplinary approach, covering historical, political, legal, economic, cultural, and various other ...