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Serbs in France (French: Serbes en France; Serbian: Срби у Француској, romanized: Srbi u Francuskoj) or French Serbs (French: Serbes français; Serbian: Француски Срби, romanized: Francuski Srbi), number around 62,740 according to estimations. [1]
The first wave of Serbs in France came together with other southern Europeans ( Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Greeks ). The majority of Serbs, however, came during the 1960s and 1970s, some also came later as refugees from the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s .
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.
France is also an EU member and Serbia is an EU candidate. There are between 70,000 and 100,000 people of Serbian descent living in France. Emmanuel Macron visited Serbia during July 2019. The last official visit of the French President to Serbia took place in September 2024. [4]
Many Serbs were recruited during the devshirme system, ... Serbia is the fourth modern-day European country, after France, Austria and the Netherlands, ...
People: Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Proposed: independence or unification with Serbia [19] [20] Political organisation: National Assembly of Republika Srpska (Government of Republika Srpska) Political parties: Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, Serbian Democratic Party [21] Autonomist movements. Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia
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The Sorbs are first mentioned in the 6th or 7th century. In their languages, the other Slavs call them the "Lusatian Serbs", and the Sorbs call the Serbs "the south Sorbs". [8] The name "Lusatia" was originally applied only to Lower Lusatia. [7] It is generally considered that their ethnonym *Sŕbъ (plur.