In 1921 Misirkov wrote a letter to the Serbian Ambassador at Sofia asking him to secure his appointment to a teaching post at the grammar school in some Macedonian town, but his application was rejected.

In grammar school he studied English, German and French, which was very helpful during his university studies because they did no have a corresponding literature in Serbian.

On St. Sava ’ s Day 1810, blind and seriously ill, Vukovic donated 20 000 forints for foundation of a Serbian grammar school in Novi Sad.

With the arrival of the teachers Georgije Magarašević, Mojsije Petrović, Ignjat Jovanović and Pavel Jozef Šafarik the number of the classes was increased to six, and at the beginning of October 1819 the Serbian Orthodox's Great Grammar School in Novi Sad became a complete grammar school.

The grammar school had six classes until 1848, and all the subjects were taught in German, apart from religious lessons which were taught in Serbian.

When the High Schools of Novi Sad and Karlovci became state schools Serbian nation was left without the classical grammar school.

Ljiljana Crepajac ( Serbian Cyrillic: Љиљана Црепајац ) ( born 1931 ) is a Serbian classical scholar, philologist, a full-time professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy on the subject Historical grammar of Old Greek ; she is the head of the Department of Classical Sciences ( since 1994 ), and she has been a full professor since 1987.

In 1892 he taught at a Serbian grammar school in Turnu Severin, in Romania.

The town featured the earliest Serb and Slavic grammar school ( Serbian: gimnazija / гимназија, French: Lycée ) founded on August 3, 1791.

An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August – November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence

As in Ancient Greek, the functions of the ablative case in Serbian are performed by the genitive case.

In Austria, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian nationalist insurgents ( The Black Hand ) is blamed for igniting World War I after a succession of minor conflicts, while belligerents on both sides in World War II used operatives specifically trained for assassination.

In that engagement at least 3 other Serbian aircraft were shot down by USAF F-16C fighters using AIM-9 missiles ( see Banja Luka incident for more details ).

Six Serbian MiG-29 were shot down by NATO ( 4 USAF F-15C, 1 USAF F-16C, 1 Dutch F-16A MLU ), all of them using AIM-120 missiles ( the kill by the F-16C may have happened due to friendly fire, from SA-7 MANPAD fired by Serbian infantry ).

Bayezid ascended to the throne following the death of his father Murad I, who was killed by Serbian knight Miloš Obilić during ( June 15 ), or immediately after ( June 16 ), the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, by which Serbia became a vassal of the Ottoman Empire.

Supported by a research fellowship from Columbia University, for several years, Bartók and Ditta worked on a large collection of Serbian and Croatian folk songs in Columbia's libraries.

Unification or Death (), unofficially known as the Black Hand ( Црна рука, Crna ruka ), was a secret military society formed by members of the Serbian army in the Kingdom of Serbia, which was founded on 6 September 1901.

Just prior to World War I, under the orders of the Chief of Serbian Military Intelligence, Serbian Military Officers and remnants of the by then moribund Black Hand organized and facilitated the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria on occasion of his visit to Sarajevo, Bosnia.

The group encompassed a range of ideological outlooks, from conspiratorially-minded army officers to idealistic youths, sometimes tending towards republicanism, despite the acquisition of nationalistic royal circles in its activities ( the movement's leader, Col. Dragutin Dimitrijević or " Apis ," had been instrumental in the June 1903 coup which had brought King Petar Karađorđević to the Serbian throne following 45 years of rule by the rival Obrenović dynasty ).

In March 1909, Serbia was forced to accept the annexation and restrain anti-Habsburg agitation by Serbian nationalists.

In the Kresna straits the Greeks were ambushed by the Bulgarian 2nd and 1st Army newly arrived from the Serbian front that had already taken defensive positions there following the Bulgarian victory at Kalimanci.

Stjepan Radić During a Parliament session in 1928, the Croatian Peasant Party's leader Stjepan Radić was mortally wounded by Puniša Račić, a deputy of the Serbian Radical People's Party, which caused further upsets among the Croatian elite.

Macedonian, although mutually intelligible with Bulgarian, certain dialects of Serbian and to a lesser extent the rest of the South Slavic dialect continuum is considered by Bulgarian linguists to be a Bulgarian dialect, in contrast with the contemporary international view, and the view in the Republic of Macedonia which regards it as a language in its own right.

Diocletian was demonized by his Christian successors: Lactantius intimated that Diocletian's ascendancy heralded the apocalypse, and in Serbian mythology, Diocletian is remembered as Dukljan, the adversary of God.

" It was later used in 2008 by pro-western Serbian voters ahead of an election.

In 1345, the Serbian King Stefan Uroš IV Dušan proclaimed himself Emperor ( Tsar ) and was crowned as such at Skopje on Easter 1346 by the newly created Patriarch of Serbia, and by the Patriarch of Bulgaria and the autocephalous Archbishop of Ohrid.

Vuk Branković was the last Serbian and Christian prince to rule Skopje during the medieval period.

According to the first dictionary of modern Serbian language ( published by Vuk Stefanović-Karadžić in 1818 ) vukodlak / вукодлак ( werewolf ) and vampir / вампир ( vampire ) are synonyms, meaning a man who returns from his grave for purposes of fornicating with his widow.

* First Serbian dictionary, made by Vuk Karadžić.

* November 7 – Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbian language ( d. 1864 )

* February 7 – Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbian language ( b. 1787 )

* In November 2008, Portuguese Foreign Minister Luís Amado met with his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremić in Belgrade and voiced his support for removing the suspension of a trade agreement between Serbia and the European Union.

Source: Vuk Stefanović Karadžić " Srpske narodne pjesme " ( Serbian folk poems ), Vienna, 1841

Vuk Karadžić, reformer of the modern Serbian language.

Serbian Cyrillic was devised in 1814 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić, who created the alphabet on phonemic principles, the Cyrillic itself has its origins in Cyril and Methodius ' transformation of the Greek script in the 9th century.

The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet was devised in 1814 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić, who created the alphabet on phonemic principles.

The army under Prince Lazar consisted of his own troops, a contingent led by Serbian nobleman Vuk Branković, and a contingent sent from Bosnia by King Tvrtko I, commanded by Vlatko Vuković.

Prince Lazar was the ruler of Moravian Serbia, and the most powerful among the Serbian regional lords of the time, while Vuk Branković ruled a part of Kosovo and other areas, recognizing Lazar as his overlord.

Out of approximately 30, 000 fighters present, 12, 000 to 15, 000 were under Lazar's command, with 5, 000 to 10, 000 under Vuk Branković, a Serbian nobleman from Kosovo, and just as many under nobleman Vlatko Vuković.

The Serbian army had Prince Lazar at its center, Vuk on the right and Vlatko on the left.

Vuk Branković (, ) ( born 1345-died October 6, 1397 ) was a Serbian medieval nobleman who during the Fall of the Serbian Empire inherited a province in present day south and southwestern Serbia ( including Kosovo and Metohija ), the northern part of present day Macedonia and northern Montenegro.

After the Battle of Kosovo Vuk was briefly de facto most powerful Serbian lord.

Vuk Branković belonged to a noble Serbian family which held a prominent role in 13th and 14th century Serbia under the Nemanjić dynasty.

In the partition of Altomanović's land, Vuk got areas of Raška ( including the old Serbian capital Ras ) and lands in Polimlje in present day northern Montenegro.

After the Battle of Maritza, Ottomans forced the southern Serbian feudal lords ( in present-day Macedonia and Greece ), Konstantin Dragaš, king Marko, Toma Preljubović and others, to become their vassals, and started to attack the northern Serbian lands ruled by prince Lazar and Vuk.