List of Serb countries and regions

Main article: History of the Serbs

The term Serbian lands has been used for medieval Serbian state creations, for Serb-inhabited territories in the Ottoman and Habsburg period (15th–19th century), and in political-geopraphical use since the independence of Serbia and Montenegro. During the Yugoslav wars it was used for the ethnic unification of Serbs through union of Serbia, Montenegro, Republika Srpska and Republic of Srpska Krajina.

History

The "medieval Serbian lands" included Serbian tribes, polities and monarchies, such as Raška, Serbian Empire, etc.

Roots of the Greater Serbian ideology are often traced back to Serbian minister Ilija Garašanin's Načertanije (1844), who envisioned a reconstruction of the Serbian Empire and unification of "Serbian lands", which included Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, northern Albania, parts of Dalmatia and the Habsburg Military Frontier.

In 1857, while traveling across "Ancient Serbia", Alexander Fedorovich Gilferding (1831-1872), a Russian Slavist and travel writer of German origin, wrote: "an Orthodox Serb, wherever he might live – in Bosnia, Herzegovina, Dalmatia, Hungary, Principality of Serbia – has, besides a church, one great homeland, Serbian land, which is, to tell the truth, divided among many masters, but it exists as an ideal, as the land of the unified Orthodox Serbian nation. He has his own oral tradition, folklore; he knows about Serbian Saint Sava, Serbian Emperor Dušan, Serbian martyr Lazar, hero Kraljević Marko. His current life rests upon the foundations of his nation and it is permeated with the previous historical life of the nation".

The term was used by political theorist Dobrica Ćosić for the ethnic unification of Serbs through union of Serbia, Montenegro, Republika Srpska and Republic of Srpska Krajina during the Yugoslav wars (1991–95).

Middle Ages

Image	Map	Name	Years	Area	Notes
		Serbian Principality	~768-969	Serbia BiH Montenegro Croatia Albania	Held by the Vlastimirović dynasty. Časlav (r. 927-960) liberated the Serbian principalities from Bulgarian rule in 927. He enlarged Serbia, uniting the tribes of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Old Serbia and Montenegro (incorporated Zeta, Pagania, Zahumlje, Travunia, Konavle, Bosnia and Rascia into Serbia, "ι Σερβλια"). He took over regions previously held by Michael of Zahumlje, who disappears from sources in 925. De Administrando Imperio describes his realm: the shores of the Adriatic Sea, the Sava river and the Morava valley as well as today's northern Albania.
	100px	Principalities Travunia Zachlumia Pagania
		Kingdom of Duklja (Doclea)	1030s-1186	Serbia BiH Montenegro Croatia Albania
		Serbian Grand Principality [Rascia]	1091-1217	Serbia BiH Montenegro Croatia Albania Macedonia
		Serbian Kingdom	1217-1345	Serbia BiH Montenegro Croatia Albania Macedonia
100px		Kingdom of Syrmia	1282–1325	Serbia BiH
	100px	Serbian Empire	1345-1371	Serbia Macedonia Montenegro Albania Greece Bulgaria
100px		dissolution of Serbian Empire into: Empire of Simeon-Siniša (1359–1370) and Jovan Uroš (1370-1373) Empire of Empress Jelena (1356–1365) and Despotate of Jovan Uglješa (1365–1371) Domain of Kesar Vojihna (14th century) Domain of Radoslav Hlapen (14th century) Despotate of Toma Preljubović (1367-1384) Despotate of Jovan Asen (-1366) and Gospodin Aleksandar (1366-1370) Domain of Karl Topia (-1387) Domain of Mrnjavčević house (14th century) Domain of Dragaš house (14th century) Domain of Sevastokrator Vlatko Paskačić (14th century) Domain of Branković house (14th-15th century) Principality of Zeta of Balšić and Crnojević houses (1360s-1496) Domain of Čelnik of Musić noble family (14th century) Moravian Serbia (14th century-1402) Domain of Rastislalić house (14th century) Domain of Vojislav Vojinović (-1363) and Nikola Altomanović (1367-1373)
100px		Duchy of Saint Sava (till 1449 Duchy of Hum and the Coast)	1448–1483	Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro Serbia Croatia
		Serbian Despotate	1402-1459 (titular Serbian despots existed until 1537 in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary)	Serbia Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro Albania

1526-1918

Image	Map	Name	Years	Area	Notes
		State of Jovan Nenad	1526-1527	Serbia Romania Hungary Croatia
		Duchy of Syrmia of Radoslav Čelnik	1527–1530	Serbia Croatia
		Military Frontier	1579–1882	Serbia Croatia Romania Hungary
100px		Habsburg Kingdom of Serbia	1718–1739	Serbia
100px		Kingdom of Slavonia	1745–1868	Serbia Croatia
		New Serbia	1752–1764	Ukraine
100px		Slavo-Serbia	1753–1764	Ukraine
		Koča's Frontier	1788–1791	Serbia
		Karađorđe's Serbia	1804–1813	Serbia Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro Bulgaria
100px		Princedom of Serbia	1817–1882	Serbia
		Serbian Voivodeship	1848–1849	Serbia Croatia Hungary Romania
		Voivodeship of Serbia and Tamiš Banat	1849–1860	Serbia Romania Hungary
100px		Kingdom of Serbia	1882–1918	Serbia Republic of Macedonia

1918-1990s

• State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (1918)
• Banat Republic (1918)
• Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918–1929), Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929–1941)
  • Banat, Bačka and Baranja (1918–1919)
• Serb-Hungarian Baranya-Baja Republic (1921)
• Kingdom of Serbia (1941–1944)
  • Banat (1941–1944)
• Republic of Užice (1941)
• Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (1944–1946), Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (1946–1963), Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1963–1992)
  • People's Republic of Serbia (1944–1963), Socialist Republic of Serbia (1963–1990), Republic of Serbia (1990–1992)
    • Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (1944–1963), Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (1963–1990), Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (1990–1992)
    • Autonomous Region of Kosovo and Metohija (1945–1974), Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo (1974–1990), Autonomous Province of Kosovo (1990–1992)
  • People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1945–1963), Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1963–1990), Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1990–1992)
  • People's Republic of Croatia (1945–1963), Socialist Republic of Croatia (1963–1990)

Since 1990s

• Republic of the Serbian People of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992), Serb Republic (1992–1995)
  • Autonomous Area of Frontier (1991), Serbian Autonomous Area of Bosnian Frontier (1991–1992)
  • Serbian Autonomous Region of North-Eastern Bosnia (1991–1992)
  • Serbian Autonomous Region of Romanija (1991–1992)
  • Serbian Autonomous Region of Eastern Herzegovina (1991–1992)
• Republic of Serbian Frontier (1991–1995)
  • Serbian Autonomous Region of Knin Frontier (1990), Serbian Autonomous Area of Frontier (1990–1991)
  • Serbian Autonomous Area of Western Slavonia (1991)
  • Serbian Autonomous Area of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and West Srem (1991), United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia (1995–1998)
• Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2003), State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006)
  • Republic of Serbia (1992–2006)
    • Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (1992–2006)
    • Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (1992–1999)
      • United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (1999–2008)
        • North Kosovo

Present political entities

Countries and territories with a Serb ethnic majority (Serbia and Republika Srpska) and minority (Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Kosovo) in 2010.

This is the list of the current states and regions where Serbs are in absolute or relative ethnic majority, are one of the constitutional or recognized peoples or Serbian language is official:

• Serbia (Serb majority; 83.3% ethnic Serbs)

• Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Serb majority; 66.76% ethnic Serbs)

• Bosnia and Herzegovina (constitutive nation)

• Republika Srpska (Serb majority; 88% ethnic Serbs)
• Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serb minority; 3% ethnic Serbs)
• Brčko District (Serb minority; ~40% ethnic Serbs)

• Montenegro (28.7% ethnic Serbs, 42.9% speaks Serbian)
• Croatia (Serb minority; 4%)
• Kosovo (partially recognised state, Serbian minority; 1.5%)

• North Kosovo (region of Kosovo, Serb majority; 95.5%)

• Republic of Macedonia (Serb minority; 1.8%)

Diaspora

Main article: Serb diaspora

• Hungary (minority)
• Albania (minority)
• Romania (minority)
• Slovakia (minority)
• Czech Republic (minority)

See also

• Greater Serbia
• List of regions of Serbia
• List of Serbian monarchs
• History of Serbia
• History of Montenegro
• History of Vojvodina
• History of Kosovo
• History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• History of Republika Srpska