Serbs - Serbs Serbs (in their language: Срби) are a south Slavic people which live mostly in Serbia. The language of Serbs is Serbian language. Of course, there are Serbs in Serb diaspora who no longer speak the language but are still considered Serbs. Most Serbs are Orthodox Christians of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Serbs converted from paganism (see Slavic religion) to Christianity before the Great Schism. After the Schism, those who lived under Orthodox sphere of influence became Orthodox and those who lived under Catholic sphere of influence became Catholic. Later with the arrival of the Turks, some Serbs converted to Islam. Most well known Catholic Serb is Ivo Andrić and most well known Muslim Serb probably is Mehmed Paša Sokolović. The principal state of the Serbs.
List of Serbs - List of Serbs This is list of Serbs and people in some way connected to Serbs or Serbia. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Serbs 1.1 Artists (writers, actors, producers, painters) 1.2 Saints 1.3 Scientists 1.4 Warriors 1.5 Athletes 1.6 Rulers 1.7 Misc 2 Connected to Serbs 3 Serbian language speakers, learners, etc. 4 Sorbs 5 See also Serbs Artists (writers, actors, producers, painters) Ivo Andrić (of Catholic extraction) Mira Furlan Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Milla Jovovich (Milica Nataša Jovović) (Serb-Russian) Emir Kusturica (Muslim) Milić od Mačve Karl Malden (Mladen Sekulović) Miloš Đoka Nikolić Dositej Obradović Milorad Pavić Petar Petrović Njegoš Josif Runjanin Zoran Živković Saints Saint Hieromartyr Lazar Saint Nikolai Velimirović Saint Sava Saint Simeon Scientists Mihajlo Pupin Mileva Marić Milutin Milanković Nikola Tesla Ruđer Josip Bošković from.
Karadjordje - stirred up to mutiny whole Belgrade pasaluk. At first whole mutiny was led under pretext of liberation from dahias, even for strengthening of central authority, but after Battle of Ivankovac in 1805 he started open combat with very Turkey and Sultan's authority for general liberation of Serbs. As army leader he excelled in 1806 in excellent victories in Battle of Mišar and Battle of Deligrad; by the end of that year he captured Belgrade and made alliance with Russia. In spring of 1809 he started successful offensive toward Montenegro but he had to return because of Turkish penetration from Niš toward Danube. Endangered by Napoleon, in 1812 Russia had to settle peace with Turkey. Serbs then stayed alone and open to Turkish revenge. In 1813 Turks attacked Serbia from three sides;.
Kingdom of Yugoslavia - state that existed from December 1, 1918 to 1941. It was formed in 1918 under name Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Serbo-Croatian Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca, Slovenian Kraljevina Srbov, Hrvatov in Slovencev, short Kraljevina SHS). On December 1 1918 it was proclaimed by the Prince Regent Alexander Karadjordjevic. The new government had to integrate regions politically as well as economically, which had very different historical experience as well as economic development. Kingdom gained most of Dalmatiabut Zadarand few islands were given to Italy. Rijeka was declared a free city but was soon occupied and in 1924 annexed by Italy. On the Austrian border, a plebiscite was held in Carinthia which opted for Austria. From Hungary, SHS gained the Vojvodina, an area with a strong German and Hungarian minority. In.
Kosovo War - Kosovo and Metohia (Kosova in Albanian), part of the former Yugoslavia. The conflict evolved in three distinct stages following several decades of occasionally violent clashes between Serbs and Albanians in the province: 1989-96: Curtailment of Kosovo's autonomy within Serbia, accompanied by alleged large-scale repression of Albanians by Serbian security forces and growing tension between Serbs and Albanians in the province. 1996-99: Guerrilla conflict between Albanian separatists and the Serbian and Yugoslav security forces, which Albanians characterised as a national liberation struggle and Serbs saw as terrorism. 1999: War between Yugoslavia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization between March 24 and June 10 1999, during which NATO heavily bombed Yugoslav targets and military units, Albanian guerrillas continued to attack Serbs and Serbian/Yugoslav forces conducted widespread ethnic cleansing of the Albanian population of.
Kosovo population data-points - study done for the internal use of the Austro-Hungarian army: In the mutesarifluk of Prizren there was some 500,000 inhabitants, out of that: 318.000 Serbs (64%), 161.000 Albanians (32%), 10.000 Roma (Gypsies) and Circassians, 2.000 Turks Balkan Wars, World War I. 1929 Serbs: 61% Others 39%. 1 1941 "Essentially unchanged". 1 World War II: displacement of Serbs; Post World War II 1948: 498,242 Albanians or 65% 1953: 524,559 Albanians or 65% 1961: 646,604 Albanians or 67%. 1 In 1968 under Albanian rule in the province, the local provincial statistical office is given authority over the census whereas in the rest of the country the census was under the tutelage of the Federal Statistical Commission. Allegations of census rigging (for the 1971 and 1981) census are made by Serbs and especially Turks,.
Kosovo Serb enclaves - the few remaining areas of the Serbian province of Kosovo where Serbs, Roma and other minorities live peacefully without the constant violence and intimidation (ethnic cleansing) of their Albanian neighbours, albeit in relatively small enclosures. Ibarski Kolasin around Northern Kosovska Mitrovica, Leposavic, Zubin Potok and Zvecan Sirinicka Zupa with center in Strpce Kosovosko Pomoravlje around Gnjilane and Kosovska Kamenica Priluzje Gracanica with Laplje Selo Gorazdevac Bica Velika Hoca.
Krajina - districts: Banat Krajina Slavonian Krajina Croatian Krajina Due to the constant border wars, the area became rather depopulated, and the authorities encouraged immigration of various peoples. The majority of settlers were Serbs and Vlachs who came from territories in the southeast, fleeing the Turk occupation. Germans and Magyars mostly came as administrative personnel, and there was a number of other settlers and military persons from other parts of Austria-Hungary such as the Czechs, Slovaks, Ukrainians/Ruthenes and others. During the 1990s, the parts of the Krajina which were found on the territory of the former Yugoslav Republic of Croatia organized into Serb Autonomous Regions and finally the Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK) in 1991 after Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia. This political unit lasted until 1995 when Croatian forces in May took.
Kravica - of 357, of whom 353 were declared as Serbs, with no declared Croats, Muslims or Yugoslavs. On January 7, 1993, Orthodox Christmas Day, Muslim forces attacked the village. Men, women and the elderly were killed with no remorse, among them were Mara Božić (born 1909), Vladimir Stojana Stojanović (b. 1915), Risto Koste Popović (b. 1920), Mitar Cvijana Nikolić (b. 1927). According to witnesses, the Muslims were led by Naser Oric..
Jasenovac - camp and its management and supervision were entrusted to Department III of the Croatian Security Police (Serbo-Croatian Ustaška Narodna Služba: UNS), headed by Vjekoslav (Maks) Luburic, who was personally responsible for everything that happened. Some six hundred thousand people were murdered at Jasenovac, mostly Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, and opponents of the Ustasa regime. The number of Jewish victims was between twenty thousand and twenty-five thousand, most of whom were murdered there up to August 1942, when deportation of the Croatian Jews to Auschwitz for extermination began. Jews were sent to Jasenovac from all parts of Croatia from Zagreb, from Sarajevo, and from other cities and smaller towns. On their arrival most were killed at execution sites near the camp: Granik, Gradina, and other places. Those kept alive were mostly skilled at.
Janko Bobetko - Spring", Bobetko, who sided with the reformist Croatian Communist leaders, was demoted and expelled from Yugoslav Army after Tito's crackdown on Croatian leadership. In 1993, during the Medak pocket military operation against the Krajina Serbs, the Croatian soldiers supposedly committed crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war, and the ICTY subsequently indicted Bobetko as the supreme commanding officer. Bobetko refused to accept the indictment and refused to surrender to the court, indignantly claiming that such an indictment questions the legitimacy of the whole military operation. The crisis protracted as the popular opinion concurred with Bobetko, and the Croatian government wouldn't assert an unambiguous position over his extradition. This contributed to the rapid physical deterioration of already gravely ill Bobetko, and he died in 2003 before being.
July 11 - US currency. 1960 - Dahomey (now Benin), Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), and Niger all gain independence. 1962 - First transatlantic satellite television transmission. 1962 - Soviet cosmonaut Micolaev is four days in space, a record. 1971 - Copper mines in Chile nationalised. 1973 - A Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, resulting in the death of 122 people. 1975 - Chinese archeologists discover a large burial site with 6,000 clay statutes of warriors from 221 BC. 1977 - Martin Luther King is posthumously rewarded the Medal of Freedom. 1979 - The space station Skylab returns to Earth. 1987 - According to the United Nations, on this day the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 mark. 1991 - A Nigerian DC-8 crashes while landing at Jeddah, Saudi.
June 15 - 1094 - Valencia falls to El Cid 1215 - King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta 1616 - Pacifique Duplessis opens first school for Indian children in Canada, at Tadoussac, Quebec 1389 - Battle of Kosovo: Turks defeat Serbs and Bosnians 1590 - Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther 1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the United States Army 1776 - American Army of the Continental Congress retreats south, setting fire to Montreal, Quebec 1804 - The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified 1814 - 500 Americans cross Lake Erie to burn and loot Port Dover and Long Point, Ontario 1836 - Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state 1844 - Charles Goodyear receives a patent.
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia - of war, genocide and crime against humanity. It can try only individuals, not organizations, governments etc. The maximum sentence it can impose is life imprisonment. Various countries have signed agreements with the UN to carry out custodial sentences. Some of the critiques of the court include: A small portion of the indictees were accused of crimes committed against Serbs, while practically the whole Serb political and military establishment is indicted. The Court was established by the UN Security Council instead of the UN General Assembly which makes it seem like a court created by the Great Powers in order to try citizens of smaller nations. Many of the indictees are still not apprehended -- while this may not be in the jurisdiction of the court, it still badly reflects on its.
Independent State of Croatia - making its presence), and the southern by the Fascist army. After the capitulation of Italy in 1943, Croatia acquired Northern Dalmatia (Split and Šibenik). The State was officially a Kingdom with its ruler, Tomislav II, a Savoy. Most of its population was non-Croat (with Orthodox Serbs, Slavic Muslims, Germans and Hungarians making up a good bit), thus some historians scough at its ironic name. Furthermore, the state attempted to carry out a mass scale genocide trying to rid itself of some 2,2 million Orthodox Serbs and 100,000 other undesirables (Jews, Gypsies). The Independent State of Croatia effectievly ceased to exist in May 1945, with the advance of Tito's partizan forces, joined by the Soviet Red Army. The Democratic Federal Yugoslavia came into being later that year, with the same teritory as.
Independent Democratic Serbian Party - Svetozar Pribičević's Independent Democratic Party from the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The party is led by Vojislav Stanimirović and aims to speed up the process of returning the Serb population that left Croatia after Croatian military operation Storm in 1995 which abolished the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina and put that territory under Croatian control. In the elections of November 2003, it beat its main rival, the Serb Popular Party (SNS), taking all three seats destined for Serb representatives in the Croatian parliament. After the elections, the Independent Democratic Serbian Party made an agreement with ruling Croatian Democratic Union led by Ivo Sanader in which they agree on fullfilling several SDSS demands such as refugee return, strenghtening of national equality, judicial reform and cooperation with neighbouring countries. See also: List of political.
Istria - Hum and Roč. Most of Istria lies in Croatia today. It has a long tradition of tolerance between the people who live there, be it Croats, Italians, Slovenians, Serbs or anyone else. The Istrians are somewhat skeptical of official Zagreb and like their cultural autonomy..
Istrians - completely mixed with 170,000 Croats (43%), 150,000 Italians (38%) and 55,000 Slovenes (14%). After World War I, Istria passed from Habsburg to Italian rule, under which the Slavs complained of being forced to Italianize their names. Also, more than 50,000 Italians have been colonized by the Mussolini Fascist regime in Istria from other parts of Italy (Calabria, Sicily) in order to make the province ethnically Italian. Following the Second World War, Istria became part of Yugoslavia and around 200,000 Italians, Croats and Slovenes, fearing the Communist oppression, fled from Istria. The Istrian peninsula was subsequently populated with Croats, Slovenes, Serbs and Montenegrins. Although most Istrians are ethnically Croats, a strong regional identity has developed over the years. The Italian minority is small, but the Istrian county is bilingual. In the 1990.
Ivo Andric - and Graz. Because of his political activities, Andrić was interned by the Austrian government during World War I in the Doboj Austrian detention camp alongside with civilian Serbs and pro-Serb south Slavs. Under the newly formed Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia), Andrić held a number of diplomatic posts, including that of ambassador to Germany. His ambassadorship ended in 1941, and during World War II Andrić lived in Belgrade. The post-war decade was his most productive period. Following the death of his wife in 1968, he slowly reduced his activities. As the time went by, he became increasingly ill and eventually died on March 13th, 1975. The material for his works was mainly drawn from the history, folklore and culture of his native Bosnia. Andrić.
Hacek - of hacek (and the acute) for Latin characters was introduced by Jan Hus in the 15th century into the Czech language and today it is also used by the Slovaks, Slovenians, Croatians, Serbs, Upper Lusatian and Lower Lusatian Sorbs, Lithuanians, Latvians and partly by the Poles. It is also often used for international transliteration. Examples of letters with the háček/caron: Č/č Ĺ /š Ž/ž The HACEK organisms are a set of slow-growing Gram negative bacteria that a part of the human normal flora and are a frequent cause of endocarditis in children. The name is formed from their initials: Haemophilus aphrophilus and Haemophilus paraphrophilus Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans Cardiobacterium hominis Eikenella corrodens Kingella kingae.
