The Serbian army resisted the sudden night attack, while most of soldiers did not even know who they are fighting with, as Bulgarian camps were located next to Serbs and were considered allies.

According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, around 125, 000 ethnic Serbs who fled the 1991 – 1995 conflict are registered as having returned to Croatia, of whom around 55, 000 remain permanently.

Because many of the Roma are believed to have sided with the Serbs during the conflict, taking part in the widespread looting and destruction of Albanian property, Minority Rights Group International report that Romani people encounter hostility by Albanians outside their local areas.

He wrote that " the majority of the inhabitants of Southern Serbia are Orthodox Christian Macedonians, ethnologically more akin to the Bulgarians than to the Serbs.

Hungarians ( Székely and other Magyars ; see Hungarians in Romania ), especially in Harghita, Covasna, and Mureş counties, and the Roma are the principal minorities, with a declining German population ( Banat Swabians in Timiş ; Transylvanian Saxons in Sibiu, Braşov and elsewhere ), and smaller numbers of Czechs, Slovaks, Serbs, Chinese, Croats, and Banat Bulgarians ( in Banat ), Ukrainians ( especially in Maramureş and Bukovina ), Greeks of Romania ( especially in Brăila and Constanţa ), Turks and Tatars ( mainly in Constanţa ), Armenians, Russians ( Lipovans, Old Believers in Tulcea ), Jews and others.

* June 28 – Battle of Kosovo between Serbs and their Christian allies against Ottoman Turks: Both Emperor Murad I and the Serbian Prince Lazar are killed in battle.

* The government of Serbia claims there are around 250, 000. refugees and internally displaced persons ( IDPs ) from Kosovo, the vast majority of whom are Serbs, who still do not feel safe returning to their homes.

Many displaced Serbs are afraid to return to their homes, even with UNMIK protection.

Around 120, 000-150, 000 Serbs remain in Kosovo, but are subject to ongoing harassment and discrimination.

* The Bulgarians under Emperor Michael III are beaten by the Serbs in the battle of Velbuzhd, Bulgaria does not lose any territory to Serbia but is powerless to stop the Serbian advance towards the predominately Bulgarian-populated Macedonia.

Elements of the KLA are also responsible for post-conflict attacks on Serbs, Roma, and other non-Albanians, as well as ethnic Albanian political rivals ... widespread and systematic burning and looting of homes belonging to Serbs, Roma, and other minorities and the destruction of Orthodox churches and monasteries ... combined with harassment and intimidation designed to force people from their homes and communities ... elements of the KLA are clearly responsible for many of these crimes.

Most of their remains were buried at sea near the island of Vido, a small island at the mouth of Corfu port, and a monument of thanks to the Greek nation has been erected at Vido by the grateful Serbs ; consequently, the waters around Vido Island are known by the Serbian people as the Blue Graveyard ( in Serbian, Плава Гробница, Plava Grobnica ), after a poem written by Milutin Bojić following World War I.

Jonathan Levy, a lawyer who represented plaintiffs in a 1999 lawsuit against the Ustaše and others, said: " Many are still terrified of the Ustashe, the Serbs particularly.

The Serbs (, ) are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group living mainly in the Balkans and southern Central Europe.

Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in Romania, Hungary, Albania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The Serbs share cultural traits with the rest of Southeastern Europe, and are predominantly Orthodox Christians by religion.

There are several theories on the etymology of the ethnonym Serbs.

Y-chromosomal haplogroups identified among the Serbs from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina are the following:

The Croats, who are mentioned in De Administrando as living adjacent to the Serbs, have a distinction of predominant sphere of influence ; Croats are Roman Catholic, and are historically linked with the Holy Roman Empire from the early stage ( Western Roman Empire ); Italy, Austria and Hungary.

This set off a chain of events that led to World War I. Princip was a Yugoslav nationalist associated with the movement Mlada Bosna ( Young Bosnia ) which predominantly consisted of Serbs, but also Bosniaks and Croats.

From 1941 – 45, the Croatian Ustaše regime murdered around 500, 000 people, 250, 000 were expelled, and another 200, 000 were forced to convert to Catholicism ; the victims were predominantly Serbs but included 37, 000 Jews.

Sorbs (; ; also known as Wends, Lusatian Sorbs or Lusatian Serbs ) are a Western Slavic people of Central Europe living predominantly in Lusatia, a region on the territory of Germany and Poland.

Kosovo Albanians lived throughout the city, but most Serbs lived in the north side, divided from the predominantly Albanian south side by the Ibar River.

In contrast with their predominantly Orthodox Christian neighbours, Serbs, Greeks, and Bulgars, the Albanian population pursued a policy of collaboration with the Ottoman Empire.

The most easily recognizable feature that distinguishes the three ethnic groups is their religion, with Bosniaks predominantly Muslim, Serbs predominantly Orthodox Christians, and Croats Catholic Christians.

The JNA was ostensibly ideologically unitarian, but its officer corps was predominantly staffed by Serbs or Montenegrins ( 70 percent ).

The war was predominantly a territorial conflict between local Bosniaks and Croats backed by Zagreb, and Serbs backed by the JNA and Serbia.

After the death of John Zápolya, Duke of Erdelj ( Transylvania ) the King of Hungary and the Habsburg Emperor wanted to annex his lands, and civil war erupted between duchess Isabella ( wife of John Zápolya, and daughter of King of Poland ) and her supporters under command of Petar Petrovic ( predominantly Serbs ), and the George Martinuzzi ( or Đorđe Utješenović, later created a Cardinal as reward for his accomplishments in this conflict ).

The members were predominantly school students who were ethnic Serbs, but included Bosniaks.

The Guard was responsible to the command of the Territorial Defense, a regular military in charge of the rebel territories of Croatia populated predominantly by Serbs during the first half of the 1990s.

The Serbs are one of the three constitutive nations of this state, predominantly residing in its political-territorial entity named Republika Srpska.

Moreover, in Yugoslavia there existed the Jasenovac concentration camp ( August 1941 – April 1945 ), which was the only central extermination camp outside of Poland, and the only one not operated by Nazis, but by the fascist Ustaše forces of the Independent State of Croatia, the majority of whose victims were Orthodox Christian Serbs, Roma, and Jews.

The Russo-Turkish War was popular among Russians, who supported the independence of their fellow Orthodox Slavs, the Serbs and the Bulgarians.

Gaddafi aligned himself with the Orthodox Serbs against Bosnia and Herzegovina's Muslims and Kosovo's Albanians.

Some Serbian intellectuals sought to unite all of the Southern, Balkan Slavs, whether Catholic ( Croats, Slovenes ), Muslim ( Bosnian Muslims, Sandžak ), or Orthodox ( Montenegrins, Serbs, Macedonians ), under their rule ( under the so-called panserbic ideologue, accordingly as " Serbian nation of three faiths ").

Kosovo was sanctioned to deploy its own law enforcement, its own government, whilst all Yugoslav security forces ( i. e. the military, police, militias and paramilitaries ) were repelled from entering the region, breeching conditions which did allow a presence of Belgrade forces within Kosovo to protect objects of interest to the Serbs and the various other nationalities ( such as the Orthodox monasteries, and the Catholic churches used by Kosovo's ethnic Croats ).

According to Orthodox Serbs, the 33 knotted prayer rope should be worn on the left hand, and when praying, held with the thumb and forefinger of the right hand.

According to the 1702 data, the population of the town was composed of 215 Orthodox and 13 Catholic houses, while according to the 1753 data, the population of the town numbered 3, 843 people, of which 3, 110 were ethnic Serbs.

Although the Serbs and Bulgarians share Slavic kinship, Orthodox Christianity and cultural traits, the two peoples have been relatively hostile against each other in history and were early on understood as distinct ethnic groups.

The identity of ethnic Serbs was historically largely based on Orthodox Christianity and on the Serbian Orthodox Church, to the extent of the claims that those who are not its faithful are not Serbs.

Of all Slavs and Orthodox Christians, only Serbs have the custom of slava.

Local Serbs have erected one of the most prominent monuments in central Trieste: the Serbian Orthodox Church of Saint Spyridon ( 1854 ).

The leader of the Third Crusade Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa openly plotted with the Serbs, Bulgars, Byzantine traitors, and even the Muslim Seljuqs against the Empire and at one point even sought Papal support for a Crusade against the Orthodox Byzantines.

In 1918 Ykov J. Odzich, a Serbian Orthodox priest, arrived in Midvale to tend to the needs of the Serbs ; but through a series of unfortunate events his tenure did not last.

In 1687 Palanka was included into Habsburg Monarchy and more Orthodox Serbs settled here.

During this period Senta was mainly populated by Serbs and had a small Orthodox church.

Orthodox Greeks were seen as part of the millet-i Rûm ( literally " Roman community ") which included all Orthodox Christians, including besides Greeks also Bulgarians, Albanians, Vlachs, Macedonian Slavs, Georgians, Arabs, Romanians and Serbs, despite their differences in ethnicity and language and despite the fact that the religious hierarchy was Greek dominated.