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Serbs

The Serbs (Serbian Cyrillic: Срби, romanized: Srbi, pronounced [sr̩̂bi]) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to Southeastern Europe who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history, and language.[29][30][31][32] They primarily live in Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro as well as in North Macedonia, Slovenia, Germany and Austria. They also constitute a significant diaspora with several communities across Europe, the Americas and Oceania.[33][34]

Not to be confused with Sorbs.

Total population

123,892 (2021)[2]

123,892 (2021)[2]

200,000(2023)est.[3]

95,962 (2016 est.)[4]

38,964 (2002)[5]

35,939 (2002)[6]

46,958[7]

1,000[8]

c. 110–120,000 (est.)

c. 110–120,000 (est.)

c. 70,000 (2001 est.)

c. 15,000 (est.)[9]

18,076 (2011)[10]

18,076 (2011)[10]

11,127 (2016)[11]

1,876 (2021)[12][13]

c. 313,198 (people with full or partial ancestry)[14][15]

c. 313,198 (people with full or partial ancestry)[14][15]

c. 300,000 (people with full or partial ancestry)[16]

c. 200,000 (2022 est.)[17][18]

c. 150,000 (2000 est.)[19]

193,844 (2021)[20]

193,844 (2021)[20]

96,530 (2016)[21]

30,000 (ancestry)[22]

21,000[23]

69,544 (2011)[24]

69,544 (2011)[24]

c. 15,000 (est.)[25]

c. 15,000 (est.)[25]

c. 20,000 (est.)[26]

The Serbs share many cultural traits with the rest of the peoples of Southeast Europe. They are predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christians by religion. The Serbian language (a standardized version of Serbo-Croatian) is official in Serbia, co-official in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is spoken by the plurality in Montenegro.

The first wave took place since the end of the 19th century and lasted until and was caused by economic reasons; particularly large numbers of Serbs (mainly from peripheral ethnic areas such as Herzegovina, Montenegro, Dalmatia, and Lika) emigrated to the United States.

World War II

The second wave took place after the end of . At this time, members of royalist Chetniks and other political opponents of communist regime fled the country mainly going overseas (United States and Australia) and, to a lesser degree, United Kingdom.

World War II

The third wave, by far the largest, consisted of economic emigration beginning in the 1960s when several Western European countries signed bilateral agreements with Yugoslavia, allowing the recruitment of industrial workers to those countries; this lasted until the end of the 1980s. The major destinations for migrants were , Austria, and Switzerland, and to a lesser extent France and Sweden. That generation of diaspora is collectively known as gastarbajteri, after German gastarbeiter ("guest-worker"), since most of the emigrants headed for German-speaking countries. These migrations left some parts of Serbia sparsely populated.[117]

West Germany

Later emigration took place during the 1990s, and was caused by both political and economic reasons. The caused many Serbs from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to leave their countries in the first half of the 1990s. The economic sanctions imposed on Serbia caused an economic collapse with an estimated 300,000 people leaving Serbia during that period, 20% of which had a higher education.[118][119]

Yugoslav wars

List of Serbs

Byzantine Illiricum - The Slavs Settlement (History of Balkan, part 1, Official chanel)

Byzantine Dalmatian – The Arrival of Serbs (History of Balkan, part 1, Official chanel)

(in Serbian)

Project Rastko – Serbian cultural and historical research society