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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.
Proponents of this theory (for example Jovan I. Deretić, Olga Luković Pjanović , Miloš Milojević) claimed that Serbs either came to the Balkans long before the 7th century or Serb 7th-century migration to the Balkans was only partial and Serbs who, according to De Administrando Imperio, came from the north found in the Balkans other Serbs ...
The Ministry of Diaspora (MoD) estimated in 2008 that the Serb diaspora numbered 3,908,000 to 4,170,000, the numbers including not only Serbian citizens but people who view Serbia as their nation-state regardless of the citizenship they hold; these could include second- and third-generation Serbian emigrants or descendants of emigrants from ...
The "Serbian renaissance" is said to have begun in 17th-century Banat. [56] The Serbian Revival began earlier than the Bulgarian National Revival. [57] The first revolt in the Ottoman Empire to acquire a national character was the Serbian Revolution (1804–1817), [55] which was the culmination of the Serbian renaissance. [58]
Today there is a vibrant Serbian community, particularly in Juneau, but Serbs can be found across the state. [26] Recently, it has become commonplace for Serbian workers to come to Alaska annually to work for a few months in canneries, where food and accommodation is provided. These workers stay on temporary work visas, and speak English. [27]
The Yugoslav wars caused many Serbs from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to leave their countries in the first half of the 1990s. The international economic sanctions imposed on Serbia caused economic collapse with an estimated 300,000 people leaving Serbia during that period, 20% of which had a higher education.
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: херцеговачких Срби, romanized: hercegovačkih Srbi), are native and one of the three ...
According to the 2022 census, Serbs are the largest ethnic group in the country and constitute 80.6% of population (86.6% if categories not declared and unknown nationalities are excluded). Hungarians are the largest ethnic minority in Serbia, concentrated predominately in northern Vojvodina and representing 2.8% of the country's population (3% ...