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In the mid-9th century the so-called Bavarian Geographer wrote that people named Zeriuani had so large kingdom that all Slavic peoples originated from there (or from them). [32] [33] According to one of interpretations, Zeriuani are identified with Serbs, and there are opinions that "Serbs" was an old name of all Slavic peoples. [34]
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]
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.
There are 185 303 people of Serbian origin living in Switzerland, making the 4th largest ethnic group. They are located mostly in the regions of Geneva, Lausanne, Basel and Zurich. Most Serbs moved to Switzerland during the 1960's and 1970's, some also came as refugees during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990's. The first migration of Serbs to ...
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 ...
List of people from Serbia is a list of notable people from Serbia. The list contains names of people who are associated with Serbia and its territory by their place of birth , and also by naturalization , domicile , citizenship or some other similar connection, modern or historical.
Under the Constitution of Serbia, Serbian Cyrillic is the only script in official use; [7] it is also co-official in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. [8] The double-headed eagle and the shield with fire steels are the main heraldic symbols which have represented the national identity of the Serbian people across the centuries. [9]
The Serbs were often called "Triballi" in Byzantine works. [29] The Triballi was an ancient Thracian tribe that inhabited the area of the Morava Valley in southern Serbia. They were last mentioned in the 3rd century. The educated Byzantine authors sought an ancient name for the Serbs, and adopted it as the most likely. [30]