On 25 July 1990, a Serbian Assembly was established in Srb, north of Knin, as the political representation of the Serbian people in Croatia.

The town has traditionally been known as the seat of Serbian Orthodox Church in the Habsburg Monarchy, as well as political and cultural capital of Serbian Vojvodina after the May Assembly and during the Revolution in 1848.

* Jasenovac Committee of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church

At the May Assembly in Sremski Karlovci ( May 13 – 15, 1848 ), recalling the privilege from 1691, the Serbs proclaimed the creation of the Serbian Vojvodina and elected Stevan Šupljikac as voivode.

Due to a growing isolation of the Republika Srpska after the peace was signed, she severed her ties with the SDS and formed Srpski narodni savez ( Serbian People's Alliance of the Republika Srpska ), and nominated Milorad Dodik, the then member of the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska whose SNSD party had only two MPs, for Prime Minister.

This Assembly established the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 9 January 1992, which became the Republika Srpska in August 1992.

Kovačević said Miodrag Mićić called him up on 30 March 2006, reportedly angry about his piece in the previous day's issue of Danas that among other things mentioned the fact that six Serbian Assembly Members of Parliament from Užice declared their personal monthly income to be over RSD1. 2 million (~€ 15, 000 ).

In 1848, after the May Assembly, the western Banat became part of the Serbian Vojvodina, a Serbian autonomous region within the Habsburg Monarchy.

The Serbian minority has formed the Community Assembly of Kosovo and Metohija in the city, but it has no police force.

On May 19, 2003, the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church recognized Bishop Nikolaj ( Velimirović ) of Ohrid and Žiča as a saint and decided to include him into the calendar of saints of Holy Orthodox Church ( March 18 and May 13 ).

His nickname Zmaj ( Змај, meaning " dragon ") derives from May Assembly date, 3 May 1848, in Serbian Cyrillic: 3. мај / Змај.

In 2008, the Community Assembly of Kosovo and Metohija was created to coordinate the efforts of the Serbian minority in Kosovo.

The Serbian parliamentary election, 2003 was held on 28 December 2003 to elect members of the National Assembly.

In the 2003 Serbian general elections, the party won 7. 6 % of the popular vote and 22 out of 250 seats in the National Assembly of Serbia.

Formerly the second-largest party in the Serbian National Assembly, it has branches in three of the nations that border Serbia – all former federal republics of Yugoslavia.

In the December 2000 Serbian parliamentary election, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia won 64. 7 % of the popular vote, securing 176 seats in the National Assembly.

In the early 2008 parliamentary election held in May 2008 following the self-proclaimed declaration of independence by the Serbian province of Kosovo, the DSS won 30 seats in the National Assembly in coalition with New Serbia.

In the 2008 parliamentary election, the pro-European bloc led by the DS received 38. 5 % of the popular vote, translating into 102 seats in the Serbian National Assembly, making it the largest political party bloc in parliament. The party also received three seats in the Community Assembly of Kosovo and Metohija, but refused to sit in the assembly until the situation in Kosovo stabilized.

On 7 January 1992, the Serb members of the Prijedor Municipal Assembly and the presidents of the local Municipal Boards of the SDS proclaimed the Assembly of the Serbian People of the Municipality of Prijedor and implemented secret instructions that were issued earlier on 19 December 1991.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

17-year-old Prince Peter was proclaimed to be of age and was declared king, though he was not crowned nor anointed ( a custom of the Serbian Orthodox Church ).

As per 2003 census results, 63. 49 % of the population declared their native language as Serbian, compared to 21. 96 % who declared as Montenegrin, the latter being mainly concentrated in Old Montenegro.

The 2011 census results show that 42. 88 % still declare Serbian to be their native language, while Montenegrin is declared by 36. 97 % of the population.

The Serbs in Croatia, intent on achieving independence from Croatia, left the Sabor and declared the autonomy of areas that would soon become the unrecognized Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ).

The 1993 language law declared that there was a single official language for Bosnians: " In the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Ijekavian standard literary language of the three constitutive nations is officially used, designated by one of the three terms: Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian.

Slobodan Milošević leader of the League of Communists of Serbia since May 1986, became the champion of the Serbian Nationalists when on 24 Apr 1987 he visited Kosovo Polje and, after local Serbs had clashed with the Police declared, ' No one has the right to beat you '.

When Šešelj beat the SPS candidate for the 1997 presidential election, despite the contest being declared invalid due to low turnout, he was again brought into the Serbian government.

In 2008, Aleksandar Vučić, a former member of the Serbian Radical Party, which advocated for a Greater Serbia, declared that the Greater Serbian project was unrealistic.

Babić's administration in Knin then announced the creation of a Serbian Autonomous District ( Српска аутономна област, САО, Srpska autonomna oblast, SAO ) of Krajina on December 21, 1990 and on April 1, 1991, declared that it would secede from Croatia to join Serbia.

After the former Yugoslav Republic of Croatia declared independence ( in 1991 ), the Serbs who lived in the region of former Military Frontier ( Vojna Krajina ) adopted that name ( Krajina ) in the name of the Republic of Serbian Krajina.

In order to attract Serbs to be part of Croatia, on 11 May 1867, the Sabor solemnly declared that " the Triune Kingdom recognizes the Serbian / Vlach people living in it as a nation identical and equal with the Croatian nation.

As part of various Serbian states ( especially since the 12th century ), the Bokeljs ( especially Kotorans ) highly influenced the political life of the Serbian realm and sided with the Serbian crown, rather than the Papacy ( as occurred in the conflict between Kotor and Bar when the Pope supported Bar and the citizens of Kotor declared King Uros their Pope, in the 13th century ).

On 28 February 1992, the Constitution of the SR BiH declared that the territory of that Republic included " the territories of the Serbian Autonomous Regions and Districts and of other Serbian ethnic entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including the regions in which the Serbian people remained in the minority due to the genocide conducted against it in World War II ", and it was declared to be a part of Yugoslavia.

Serbia accepted all but one of the demands, to let the Austrian officers conduct an investigation on Serbian soil, which would have compromised its sovereignty.

** The Serbian Democratic Party declares the sovereignty of the Serbs in Croatia.

In August 2010, Vuk Drašković argued in favour of changing the Serbian Constitution of 2006 to remove references to Kosovo as a part of Serbia because according to him “ Serbia has no national sovereignty over Kosovo whatsoever.

Austria-Hungary would offer no territorial concessions to Serbia or Montenegro, but if they supported the annexation then Austria-Hungary would not oppose Serbian expansion in the Balkans, and support the Russian demand to revise Article 29 of the Treaty of Berlin which restricted Montenegrin sovereignty.

The same day, in response to rumours about an Austrian ultimatum, the Serbian Prime Minister Pašić stated that he would not accept any measures compromising on Serbian sovereignty.

* The Serbian eagle, a white two-headed eagle, which represents dual power and sovereignty ( monarch and church ), was the coat of arms of the Nemanjić dynasty.

Bayezid recognized Stefan Lazarević, the son of Lazar, as the new Serbian leader ( later despot ), with considerable autonomy.

* Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric < nowiki >*</ nowiki > ( autonomy recognized only by the Serbian Orthodox Church )

The southern Serbian province of Kosovo, while formally still part of Serbia ( according to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 ), moved toward local autonomy under the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo ( UNMIK ) and was dependent on the international community for financial and technical assistance.

Belgrade's rejection was based on the argument that the agreement contained provisions for Kosovo's autonomy that went further than the Serbian / Yugoslav government saw as reasonable.

On 23 March, the Serbian assembly accepted the principle of autonomy for Kosovo and non-military part of the agreement.

In March 1989 this was done, removing autonomy from Vojvodina and Kosovo, which caused great unrest in Kosovo On 28 June 1989 Slobodan Milošević made what became known as the Gazimestan Speech which was the centrepiece of a day-long event, attended by an estimated one million Serbs, to mark the 600th anniversary of the Serbian defeat at the Battle of Kosovo by the Ottoman Empire.

The code was used as a reference for Serbian communities under Turkish rule, which exercised considerable legal autonomy in civil cases.

However, local Serbian princes continued to reign as suzerains to the Byzantines, maintaining total autonomy over their lands, such as the zhupanate of Rascia while only nominally being Byzantine vassals.

# Cultural and educational autonomy of Serbs in Croatia, through use of Serbian language and writings, use of Serbian national symbols, education in Serbian, foundation of Serb organizations in education and culture, foundation of Serbian information media and the maintaining of Serbian traditions and customs

The SPS upon its foundation, was the heir to the League of Communists of Serbia and more particularly the agenda of Serbian President Slobodan Milošević, who had come to power promising the strengthening of Serb influence in Yugoslavia by reducing the autonomy of the provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina within Serbia, and had demanded a one-member-one vote system for the League of Communists of Yugoslavia which would have given a numerical majority to the Serbs.

During the inter-war period, the majority of Serbian politicians defended a strong centralised country, while their opponents demanded major autonomy for the regions.

Though ultimately unsuccessful, the First Serbian Uprising paved the way for the Second Serbian Uprising of 1815, which eventually succeeded in securing Serbian autonomy.

Since ethnic Bosniaks form a majority in only three eastern municipalities of Serbian Sandžak, and two eastern municipalities of Montenegrin Sandžak, and since the Serb and Montenegrin populations from this ethnically mixed region would oppose the idea of autonomy, it is unlikely that an eventual autonomous Sandžak would include municipalities with a majority Serb and Montenegrin ethnic populations.

In 1989, unilateral measures taken by Serbian President Slobodan Milošević shattered Kosovo's autonomy by reverting it to its pre-1974 status.

According to the story, St. Sava called for the creation of an independent church in Serbia that would remain Orthodox, and uttered the phrase to urge the Serbian people to declare national autonomy and resist domination by the Roman Catholic Church.

In 1989, the then Serbian President Slobodan Milošević promulgated a new constitution for Serbia that greatly reduced the province's autonomy and restored the old name, thus symbolically undoing the earlier reforms.

During the Hungarian Revolution in Vojvodina, in 1848, Prince Aleksandar Karađorđević sent Serbian volunteers under the command of Stevan Knićanin to help the Serbs ’ struggle for autonomy.