List of Serb countries and regions

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Main article: History of the Serbs

This is a list of Serb countries and regions throughout history, called Serbian lands^[1] by historians (Serbian: Српске земље, Srpske zemlje). It includes empires, countries, states, provinces, regions and territories that have or had in the past one of the following characteristics:

• An ethnic Serb majority
• Serbs are an official, constitutional or titular nation
• Serbian as an official language
• A Serb ruling class or dynasty

It also includes states of Prehistoric Serbia (States within or part of present Serbian territory).

Prehistoric Serbia

• Moesia, Roman region and province 75 BC-3rd century

Historical political entities

Early

Map	Name	Years	Area	Notes
	White Serbia or Bojka	?	The location of White Serbia has been disputed. It has been described as: north of the Danube and the Carpathians[2] the modern Czech Republic[3] between the Elbe and Saale Rivers[4] Poland[5] Red Ruthenia[6] Lusatia, triangle of Germany, Czech republic and Poland.	Traditional homeland of the White Serbs in Europe.[7]
	Serbian Sklavinia	fl. 610-641 (680)	Balkans

Monarchy

Image	Map	Name	Years	Area	Notes
		Serbian Principality	~768-969	Serbia BiH Montenegro Croatia Albania	Held by the Vlastimirović dynasty. Časlav (r. 927-960) liberated the Serbian principalities from Bulgarian rule in 927. He enlarged Serbia, uniting the tribes of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Old Serbia and Montenegro (incorporated Zeta, Pagania, Zahumlje, Travunia[8], Konavle, Bosnia and Rascia into Serbia, "ι Σερβλια").[9][10] He took over regions previously held by Michael of Zahumlje, who disappears from sources in 925.[8] De Administrando Imperio describes his realm: the shores of the Adriatic Sea, the Sava river and the Morava valley as well as today's northern Albania.[10]
		Serbian Principality [Duklja]	1000-1148	Serbia BiH Montenegro Croatia Albania
		Serbian Grand Principality [Rascia]	1091-1217	Serbia BiH Montenegro Croatia Albania Macedonia
		Serbian Kingdom	1217-1345	Serbia BiH Montenegro Croatia Albania Macedonia
		Serbian Empire	1345-1371	Serbia Macedonia Montenegro Albania Greece Bulgaria
		Fall of the Serbian Empire
		Serbian Despotate

In Exile / Short-lived / Titular

• Serbian Empire of Jovan Nenad (1526–1527), Duchy of Syrmia of Radoslav Čelnik (1527–1530)

Modern political entities

Map of New Serbia and Slavo-Serbia

Kingdom of Serbia in 1913

• Military Frontier (1579–1881)
• Habsburg Serbia (1718–1739)
• Kingdom of Slavonia (1745–1868)
• New Serbia (1752–1764)
• Slavo-Serbia (1753–1764)
• Koča's Frontier (1788–1791)
• Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (1868–1918)
• Karađorđe's Serbia (1804–1813), Princedom of Serbia (1817–1882), Kingdom of Serbia (1882–1918)
• Serbian Voivodeship (1848–1849), Voivodeship of Serbia and Tamiš Banat (1849–1860)
• State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (1918)
• Banat Republic (1918)
• Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918–1929), Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929–1941)
• Serb-Hungarian Baranya-Baja Republic (1921)
• Kingdom of Serbia (1941–1944)
  • Banat (1941–1944)
• Republic of Užice (1941)
• Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (1945–1946), Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (1946–1963), Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1963–1992)
  • People's Republic of Serbia (1945–1963), Socialist Republic of Serbia (1963–1990), Republic of Serbia (1990–1992)
    • Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (1945–1974), Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (1974–1990), Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (1990–1992)
    • Autonomous Region of Kosovo and Metohija (1945–1974), Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo (1974–1990), Autonomous Province of Kosovo (1990–1992)
  • People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1945–1963), Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1963–1990), Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1990–1992)
  • People's Republic of Croatia (1945–1963), Socialist Republic of Croatia (1963–1990)
• Republic of the Serbian People of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992), Serb Republic (1992–1995)
  • Autonomous Area of Frontier (1991), Serbian Autonomous Area of Bosnian Frontier (1991–1992)
  • Serbian Autonomous Region of North-Eastern Bosnia (1991–1992)
  • Serbian Autonomous Region of Romanija (1991–1992)
  • Serbian Autonomous Region of Eastern Herzegovina (1991–1992)
• Republic of Serbian Frontier (1991–1995)
  • Serbian Autonomous Region of Knin Frontier (1990), Serbian Autonomous Area of Frontier (1990–1991)
  • Serbian Autonomous Area of Western Slavonia (1991)
  • Serbian Autonomous Area of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and West Srem (1991), United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia (1995–1998)
• Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2003), State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006)
  • Republic of Serbia (1992–2006)
    • Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (1992–2006)
    • Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (1992–1999)
      • UN-administered Kosovo (1999–Present)
        • North Kosovo

Present political entities

Serb-inhabited political entities at the end of the 20th century^{[citation needed]}

This is the list of the current states and regions where Serbs are in absolute or relative ethnic majority, are one of the constitutional or recognized peoples or Serbian language is official:

• Serbia

• Autonomous Province of Vojvodina
• Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija

• Republic of Kosovo (partially-recognised state)

• North Kosovo

• Bosnia and Herzegovina (constitutive nation)

• Serb Republic (majority)
• Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Montenegro (32% of the population, 63% speaks Serbian)
• Croatia (minority, 4% of the population) ^[11]
• Republic of Macedonia (minority) ^[11]
• Hungary (minority) ^[11]
• Albania (minority) ^[11]
• Romania (minority) ^[11]
• Slovakia (minority) ^[11]
• Czech republic (minority) ^[11]

Serbian lands-term

In 1857, while traveling across "Ancient Serbia", Alexander Fedorovich Gilferding (1831-1872), a Russian Slavist and travel writer of German origin, notes that "an Orthodox Serb, wherever he might live – in Bosnia, Herzegovina, Dalmatia, Hungary, Principality of Serbia – has, besides a church, one great homeland, Serbian land, which is, to tell the truth, divided among many masters, but it exists as an ideal, as the land of the unified Orthodox Serbian nation. He has his own oral tradition, folklore; he knows about Serbian Saint Sava, Serbian Emperor Dušan, Serbian martyr Lazar, hero Kraljević Marko. His current life rests upon the foundations of his nation and it is permeated with the previous historical life of the nation".^[12]

References

1. ^ E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936
2. ^ Google books search
3. ^ Google books search
4. ^ Google books search
5. ^ Google books search
6. ^ Google books search
7. ^ Projekat Rastko Cetinje - Petar Vlahovic: The Serbian Origin of the Montenegrins.
8. ^ ^{a b} The entry of the Slavs into Christendom, p. 209
9. ^ The early medieval Balkans, p. 160
10. ^ ^{a b} Južnoslavensko pitanje, p. 48
11. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} "Information on the status of Serbian people in the neighbouring countries, Ministry for Diaspora, Republic of Serbia". Archived from the original on 2007-11-24. http://web.archive.org/web/20071124130346/http://www.mzd.sr.gov.yu/_eng/polozaj_srba_u_okruzenju.asp. Retrieved 2007-05-15. 
12. ^ Elements Of Ethnic Identification Of The Serbs 727

See also

• Greater Serbia, irrendentist claim to regions historically and currently populated by Serbs
• List of regions of Serbia
• List of Serbian monarchs
• History of Serbia
• History of Montenegro
• History of Vojvodina
• History of Kosovo
• History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• History of Republika Srpska