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.

The propagandists who want people to believe " neutral policies " equalized Serbs and Croats severely restricted free speech and did not protect citizens from ethnic attacks.

The Bosnian Serbs did not include Zulfikarpašić's proposition alongside their propositions.

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 ).

The Serbs in particular did not agree and refused to vacate any of the territory they had seized in northern Macedonia ( that is, the territory roughly corresponding to the modern Republic of Macedonia ), saying that the Bulgarian army had failed to accomplish its pre-war goals at Adrianople ( to capture it without Serbian help ) and that the pre-war agreement on the division of Macedonia had to be revised.

The two brothers experienced little difficulty with either the Serbs or the Ottomans but they did provoke the neighboring Austro-Hungarian Empire, and spent the night in " a wretched cell.

In 1040 however, the Serbs again revolted as did the Bulgarians in western Bulgaria and Macedonia in the same year.

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.

Authorities of Croatia and Serbia agreed to Vance's plan, but the leaders of SAO Krajina rejected it, even though it offered Serbs quite a large degree of autonomy by the rest of the world's standards, as it did not include full independence for Krajina.

However, UNPROFOR did not intervene in 1995 when the Bosnian Serbs set up their artillery around the city and began shelling it indiscriminately.

Serbs who were opposed to Milošević and his Socialist Party of Serbia did point out, however, that the West failed to support Serbian people who demonstrated daily for three months the winter of 1996-1997, and that Milošević had been losing support long before the bombing ( in fact demonstrations against Miloševićes regime had been going on since 1991 ).

It is not certain whether Hungarians or Serbs were largest ethnic group in the city in this time, since 1910 census is considered partially inaccurate by most historians because this census did not recorded the population by ethnic origin or mother tongue, but by the " most frequently spoken language ", thus the census results overstated the number of Hungarian speakers, since this was official language at the time and many non-Hungarian native speakers stated that they most frequently speak Hungarian language in everyday communication.

During the course of the war, it was rapidly evident that neither did the Albanians see Serbia as liberators, as suggested by King Peter I, nor were the Serbs prepared to act upon his declaration.

Žerjavić also stated that the majority of Croats and Serbs fought side by side against the Nazis, as did he, in Tito's partisan army.

On the other hand, unlike the treatment by members of the Serbian Democratic Party ( SDS ) and the Croatian Democratic Union ( CDU ) of minorities in their respective areas of control during the Bosnian War, the SDA party reportedly did not engage in organized persecution of Serbs and Croats in the areas under its control.

Milošević responded to press questions of whether the Serbian government approved the Bosnian Serbs, by claiming that the Serbian government did not directly support the Srpska government or Serb military forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina in their war but claimed that Serbs had the right to self-determination.

The Rambouillet talks did not yield any results since Serbs and Albanians had two opposite goals-the Albanians wanted an independent Kosovo, while the Serbs wanted to return them autonomy, but refused disarming their forces there or allowing international peacekeepers to be deployed.

Although Sultan Selim III granted authority to the peaceful Hadži Mustafa Pasha, however tensions between the Serbs and the Janissary command did not subside.

The autonomous political organisations of the region were also suppressed by Tito ( along with others such as the Croatian Spring ); however, the Yugoslav constitutions of 1965 and 1974 did give substantial rights to national minorities including the Serbs in SR Croatia.

The first unit of volunteers, primarily Serbs, was dispatched to Serbia via Odessa and Romania but did not reach Serbia until 1915, shortly before the country was finally overrun.

When, under the terms of the Accord, Ilidža was placed within the territory of the Bosnian Federation, the vast majority of Serbs fled the city to live in the Republika Srpska, destroying some buildings as they did so.

That is why the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, established in 1918, did not obtain the confirmation and permission of the Croatian Parliament.

The reconstruction of events in Račak was prevented by two armed Albanians, one with a Kalashnikov and the another with a pistol, who chased off court officials, telling them, " we don't want any cockroachs ( Serbs ) in our village.

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.

The Serbs are a Slavic people, specifically of the South Slavic subgroup, which has its origins in the 6th and 7th century communities developed in Southeastern Europe ( see Great Migration ).

The Battle of Kosovo in 1389 ( see Ottoman wars in Europe and Serbian – Ottoman wars ) marked the beginning of the fall of the Serbia, and prompted several migrations of Serbs from their lands in the south towards the Christian lands in the north of the Ottoman borders, crossing the Danube and Sava rivers to Central Europe ( today's Vojvodina, Slavonia, Transylvania and Hungary proper ).

The Serbs are a Slavic people, specifically of the South Slavic subgroup, which has its origins in the 6th and 7th century communities developed in Southeastern Europe ( see Great Migration ).

Nazi-sponsored Croatia had a notable Serb community, roughly two million strong, which the Croatian Ustaše sought to eliminate through genocide: In the Croats ' political programme it was explained that " ⅓ of the Serbs were to be killed, ⅓ were to be expelled and ⅓ were to be forcibly converted to Catholicism " ( see World War II persecution of Serbs ).

In Serbia ( the nation-state ), 6. 2 million Serbs constitute about 62 % of the population ( 83 % excluding Kosovo, see Status of Kosovo ).

The South Slavs The Serbs, a Slavic people, specifically of the South Slavic subgroup, have their origins in the 6th and 7th century communities developed in Southeastern Europe ( see Great Migration ).

The Serbs, a Slavic people, specifically of the South Slavic subgroup, has its origins in the 6th-and 7th century communities developed in Southeastern Europe ( see Great Migration ).

A punitive force sent by the Bulgarians was defeated. Thus we see a continuous cycle of dynastic strife amongst Vlastimir ’ s successors, stirred on by the Byzantine and Bulgarians, who were effectively using the Serbs as pawns.

The Bosnian Muslims and Croats see this as an act of breaking the Dayton Agreement, while Serbs see it as an example of self-determination.

Majority-Eastern Orthodox groups other than Romanians included sizeable communities of Greeks ( a highly influential and omnipresent one for much of the city's history, it was mentioned in Bucharest as early as 1561 and, after reaching its peak in the 18th century, entered a process of regression ), Aromanians ( first attested in 1623, but probably counted among the Greeks by previous testimonials ), Serbs and Bulgarians, alongside other South Slavs ( Bulgarians and Serbs were confounded in common reference until the 19th century ; at the same time, sources more readily distinguished between groups of traders from Gabrovo, Chiprovtsi, or Razgrad ; an important group of Bulgarians retreated with the Russians at the close of the war of 1828-1829, and settled in Bucharest as gardners and milkmen ), as well as Arab parishioners of the Antiochian Orthodox Church, Russians ( see also Bucharest Russian Church ), and most of the Albanians present.

In 1918, the entire Baranya was captured by Serbian troops and was administered by the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, but as a Republic, see: Baranya-Baja Republic.

About 83 % of Serbs see Russia as their first ally on the international scene.

The principal minorities in Romania are Hungarians ( Szeklers and Magyars ; see Hungarians in Romania ) ( especially in Harghita, Covasna and Mureş counties ) and Roma people, with a declining German population ( in Timiş, Sibiu, Braşov ) and smaller numbers of Poles in Bucovina ( Austria-Hungary attracted Polish miners, who settled there from the Kraków region in Poland in the 19th century ), Serbs, Croats, Slovaks and Banat Bulgarians ( in Banat ), Ukrainians ( in Maramureş and Bukovina ), Greeks ( Brăila, Constanţa ), Turks and Tatars ( in Constanţa ), Armenians, Russians ( Lippovans, in Tulcea ) and others.

The initial status negotiations focused on technical issues important for Kosovo's long-term stability, particularly the rights and protection of Kosovo's minorities ( and especially the Kosovo Serbs ).

Serbian President Slobodan Milošević's unequivocal desire to uphold the unity of Serbs, a status threatened by each republic breaking away from the federation, in addition to his opposition to the Albanian authorities in Kosovo, further inflamed ethnic tensions.

Another related feature, often lamented by Serbs themselves, is disunity and discord ; as Slobodan Naumović puts it, " Disunity and discord have acquired in the Serbian popular imaginary a notorious, quasi-demiurgic status.

In Serbian epic poetry and song ( e. g. " Radul-bey and Bulgarian King Šišman " and the song " Dušan's Wedding "), Miloš Obilić is often grouped along with other literary creations like Karadjordje, Vuk Karadžić and Njegoš as Serbs of Dinaric origin who distinguished themselves as the great moral and / or intellectual minds of the past in contradistinction to Bulgarian contemporaries, who could claim no such status.

The New York Times suggested that this criticism of Ahtisaari on the part of the Serbs had led to the " bogging down " of the Kosovo status talks.

Serbs became opposed to any status that would make them remain in an independent Croatia.

After Tuđman was elected, the first democratic constitution was drafted and gave the Serbs a minority status within Croatia.

The creation of Krajina was triggered by the fact that the new Croatian government changed the constitutional status of Serbs in Croatia from nation to national minority.

Although change was made by more than 2 / 3 majority, and there was given guarantees for civil rights for every Croatian citizen, from the point of view of the Serbs this revoking of their nation status was illegal, thus the creation of Krajina ( internationally unrecognized entity ) was seen by them as legal way to protect their rights.

In November 1630, the Emperor proclaimed the so-called Statuta Wallachorum or Vlach Statute, which regulated the status of so-called Vlach settlers ( which included Croats, Serbs and Vlachs ) from the Ottoman Empire with regard to military command, their obligations and rights to internal self-administration.

Serbs were the larger of the two constitutive nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( later the second largest of three, when Bosniaks, then known as Muslims by nationality, gained constitutive status in 1968 ).

Another related feature, often lamented by Serbs themselves, is disunity and discord ; as Slobodan Naumović puts it, " Disunity and discord have acquired in the Serbian popular imaginary a notorious, quasi-demiurgic status.

After the First World War, in 1919-1920 when Kriva Palanka for the first time gets a status of municipality as part of the Vardar Banovina of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes it gets its first native president ( mayor ) and the physical appearance which was mostly maintained till today.