List of Serb countries and regions

This is a list of Serb countries and regions throughout history, called Serbian lands by historians (). It includes empires, countries, states, provinces, regions and territories that have or had in the past one of the following characteristics:

• An ethnic Serb majority
• Serbs are an official, constitutional or titular nation
• Serbian as an official language
• A Serb ruling class or dynasty

It also includes states of Prehistoric Serbia (States within or part of present Serbian territory).

Prehistoric Serbia

• Moesia, Roman region and province 75 BC-3rd century

Historical political entities

Before the Serb arrival to the Balkans

Medieval political entities

• Principality of Rascia (630s-middle 9th century),
• Principality of Travunia (630s-middle 10th century)
• Principality of Zachlumia (630s-1326), Lordship of the Chełm (1326–1448), Duchy of Herzegovina (1448–1449), Duchy of Saint Sava (1449–1482)
• Principality of Pagania (630s-12th century)
• Principality of Doclea (630s-1018, 1036–1077), Kingdom of Duklja and Dalmatia (1077-12th century, early 13th century-14th century), Principality of Zeta (1360s-1496)
• Banate of Bosnia (12th-14th century), Kingdom of Bosnia and Serbia (1377–1463), Kingdom of Bosnia (1465–1476)
• Serbia (9th century), Principality of Serbia (927-960)
• Kingdom of Srem (1282–1325)
• Empire of Epirus (1359–1373)
• Empire of Serres (1356–1365), Despotate of Serres (1365–1371)
• State of Kesar Voihna (14th century)
• State of Radoslav Hlapen (14th century)
• Despotate of Epirus (14th century)
• State of Vojislav Vojinović (14th century)
• State of Sevastokrator Dejan (14th century)
• State of Sevastokrator Vlatko (14th century)
• Realm of Mrnjavčević house (14th century)
• Realm of Branković house (14th century-1427)
• Duchy of Herzegovina (14th - 15th century)
• Moravian Serbia (14th century-1402), Serbian Despotate (1402–1537)
• Serbian Empire of Jovan Nenad (1526–1527), Duchy of Syrmia of Radoslav Čelnik (1527–1530)

Modern political entities

• Military Frontier (1579–1881)
• Habsburg Serbia (1718–1739)
• Kingdom of Slavonia (1745–1868)
• New Serbia (1752–1764)
• Slavo-Serbia (1753–1764)
• Koča's Frontier (1788–1791)
• Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (1868–1918)
• Karađorđe's Serbia (1804–1813), Princedom of Serbia (1817–1882), Kingdom of Serbia (1882–1918)
• Serbian Voivodeship (1848–1849), Voivodeship of Serbia and Tamiš Banat (1849–1860)
• State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (1918)
• Banat Republic (1918)
• Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918–1929), Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929–1941)
• Serb-Hungarian Baranya-Baja Republic (1921)
• Kingdom of Serbia (1941–1944)
  • Banat (1941–1944)
• Republic of Užice (1941)
• Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (1945–1946), Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (1946–1963), Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1963–1992)
  • People's Republic of Serbia (1945–1963), Socialist Republic of Serbia (1963–1990), Republic of Serbia (1990–1992)
    • Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (1945–1974), Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (1974–1990), 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)
• 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), UN-administered Kosovo (1999–Present)

Present political entities

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

:* Autonomous Province of Vojvodina

:* Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija

• Republic of Kosovo (partially-recognised state)

:* North Kosovo

• Bosnia and Herzegovina (constitutive nation)

:* Serb Republic (majority)

:* Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Montenegro (constitutive nation)
• Hungary (minority)
• Albania (minority)
• Romania (minority)
• Croatia (minority; constitutional nation before the 1990 Croatian Constitution)
• Republic of Macedonia (minority)

References

See also

• Greater Serbia, irrendentist claim to regions historically and currently populated by Serbs
• 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

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