The Serbs (Serbian Cyrillic: Срби, romanized: Srbi, pronounced [sr?^bi]) are a South Slavic ethnic group and nation, native to the Balkans in Southeastern Europe. The majority of Serbs live in their nation state of Serbia, as well as in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Kosovo.
April 6, 1992 – December 14, 1995
A majority of Croats wanted Croatia to leave Yugoslavia and become a sovereign country, while many ethnic Serbs living in Croatia, supported by Serbia, opposed the secession and wanted Serb-claimed lands to be in a common state with Serbia.
It was considered a terrorist group until the breakup of Yugoslavia. Military precursors to the KLA began in the late 1980s with armed resistance to Yugoslav police trying to take Albanian activists in custody.
Turkish private individuals and groups financially supported the Bosnian Muslims, and some hundreds of Turks joined as volunteers. Greatest private aid came from Islamist groups, such as the Refah Party and IHH. As a NATO member, Turkey supported and participated in NATO operations, including sending 18 F-16 planes.
The war ended in 1995 after Nato bombed the Bosnian Serbs and Muslim and Croat armies made gains on the ground. A US-brokered peace divided Bosnia into two self-governing entities, a Bosnian Serb republic and a Muslim-Croat federation lightly bound by a central government.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is an upper middle-income country which has accomplished a great deal since the mid-1990s. Today, it is an EU potential candidate country and is now embarking on a new growth model amid a period of slow growth and the global financial crisis.
More than 96% of population of Bosnia and Herzegovina belongs to one of its three autochthonous constituent peoples: Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats.
Male circumcision is nearly universal in the Muslim world and in Israel due to the religious beliefs of the majority of Muslims and Jews; however, some non-Muslim groups living within Muslim-majority countries, such as Armenians and Assyrians, do not practice it.
Between 180,000 and 200,000 people inhabited Bosnia and Herzegovina, the majority were Croats, Serbs, Muslims and in smaller percentages Slovenes, Czechs and others. Students of Napredak were not only Bosnian Croats, but also Croats from other regions.
OVERALL RISK : LOWBosnia and Herzegovina is generally a safe country. Its people are very kind and happy to help, and tourists especially shouldn't encounter any bigger problems in this country. Small towns do not face almost any serious crimes, though that's not the case with its capital, Sarajevo.
The largest Bosnian American communities in the US are found in St. Louis (Bevo Mill's "Little Bosnia"); followed by Chicago, Jacksonville, New York City, Detroit, and Houston. Atlanta has Georgia's largest Bosnian American community with approximately 10,000 in the metro area.
What religion is Bosnians?
Islam
Eastern Orthodox Church
Catholic Church
Agnosticism
There are three ethnic types in Bosnia: Serbs, Croats, and Bosnian Muslims. They are all of Slav origin. Bosnian Muslims are descendants of Serbs and Croats who converted to Islam some years ago. No, there were never illyrians in bosnia.
"Serbs and Croats can understand each other on the level of basic communication. Croatians have coined entirely new words, Bosniaks have peppered their speech with Turkic terms and phrases, and Serbs throughout the region remain committed to using the Cyrillic alphabet instead of Latin script.
Bosnian is one of three such varieties considered official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with Croatian and Serbian. It is also an officially recognized minority language in Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Kosovo. Bosnian uses both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, with Latin in everyday use.
They are mutually intelligible. And the overwhelming consensus among linguists is that Montenegrin and Serbian, as well as Bosnian and Croatian, are basically the same language.
| Serbo-Croatian |
|---|
| Ethnicity | Bosniaks Croats Montenegrins Serbs |
| Native speakers | 21 million (2011) |
| Language family | Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic South Slavic Western South Slavic Serbo-Croatian |
| Standard forms | SerbianCroatian Bosnian Montenegrin |
Linguistic AffiliationSerbian is a member of the Slavic branch of Indo-European languages. Other Slavic languages include Russian, Polish and Ukrainian. Serbian is a part of the South Slavic sub-group of Slavic. Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Slovene are also South Slavic languages.
Croatian is written in Gaj's
Latin alphabet. Besides the Shtokavian dialect, on which Standard
Croatian is based, there are two other main dialects spoken on the territory of
Croatia, Chakavian and Kajkavian.
Croatian language.
| Croatian |
|---|
| Writing system | Latin (Gaj's alphabet) Yugoslav Braille |
| Official status |
After the breakup, the republics of Montenegro and Serbia formed a reduced federative state, the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia (FRY), known from 2003 to 2006 as Serbia and Montenegro.
Yugoslavia.
| Yugoslavia Jugoslavija Југославија |
|---|
| Official languages | Serbo-Croatian Macedonian Slovene |
| Demonym(s) | Yugoslav |
Serbian is the official language of the Republic of Serbia, and it is also spoken by minorities living in other countries such as Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Along with Bosnian, Croatian, Slovene, and Montenegrin, Serbian belongs to the western group of the South Slavic Languages.
