Serbs in France

Serbs in France

Total population
120,000 (estimate)
Regions with significant populations
Paris, Île de France, Alsace, Franche Comté, Rhône-Alpes
Languages
French and Serbian
Religion
Serbian Orthodox Church
Related ethnic groups
South Slavs

Serbs in France (French: Serbes en France; Serbian: Срби у Француској/Srbi u Francuskoj) number around 120,000 according to estimations. They are located mostly in the regions of Paris, Lyon, Grenoble, Belfort, Montbéliard, Mulhouse and Strasbourg.

A wave of Serbs came with the influx of other Southern Europeans (Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, and Greeks) in the 1920s. A minority are (descendants of) people of Serbian origin who were established in France in the aftermath of the First World War (e.g. Michel Auclair). Most Serbs however moved to France during the 1960s and 1970s, some also came as refugees during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.

Notable people

• Vladimir Veličković, painter
• Bojan Zulfikarpašić, jazz pianist
• Nikola Karabatić, handball player
• Luka Karabatic, handball player
• SebastiAn, house artist
• Aleksandar Josipović, retired dancer
• Kristina Mladenovic, tennis player
• Irena Pavlovic, tennis player
• Dušan Maravić, football player
• Marko Muslin, football player
• Filip Nikolic, singer

See also

• France–Serbia relations
• St. Sava Church, Paris
• Serb diaspora

External links

• French-Serbian friendship site (in French and Serbian only)
• Serbian Orthodox Church in France (in French and Serbian only)
• Serbian-French association (in French and Serbian only)
• Serbian-French cultural and sports association (in French and Serbian only)