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Serbian Despotate (Српска деспотовина)
Serbian Despotate (Српска деспотовина), 1402–1459, last medieval Serbian state ruled by despots Stefan Lazarević and Đurađ Branković; capitals Belgrade and Smederevo; fell to the Ottomans in 1459.
Serbian Despotate of Syrmia
The Serbian Despotate of Syrmia was territory in Syrmia, in present-day Serbia and Croatia, placed by the Hungarian crown under the rule of Serbian despots.
Serbian Dictionary
The Serbian Dictionary (Serbian: Srpski rječnik) is the foundational dictionary of the modern Serbian language, compiled by language reformer Vuk Karadžić and published in Vienna in 1818 and 1852.
Serbian dinar (дин)
The Serbian dinar (дин, ISO code RSD) is the currency of Serbia, divided into 100 paras and issued by the National Bank of Serbia since 1873.
Serbian Empire (Српско царство)
The Serbian Empire (Српско царство, Srpsko Carstvo) was a medieval Balkan state, elevated from a kingdom by Stefan Dušan, who ruled as emperor from 1346 to 1355.
Serbian folk lyric poetry
Serbian folk lyric poetry is the short, non-narrative branch of Serbian oral traditional song, covering ritual lyrics, love songs, and lullabies, first printed systematically by Vuk Karadžić in 1814.
Serbian language
Serbian, also known as srpski (српски), is a South Slavic language spoken by about 9 to 10 million people, official in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and written in both Cyrillic and Latin script.
Serbian literary criticism
Serbian literary criticism is the tradition of evaluative and interpretive writing about Serbian literature, practiced from the nineteenth century onward, with Jovan Skerlić as its formative figure.
Serbian mafia
Serbian mafia: organized crime groups based in Serbia, also called Balkan cartel groups, dominant in cocaine and arms trafficking, hierarchically structured, with documented state security ties since the 1990s Yugoslav collapse.
Serbian medieval fresco painting
Serbian medieval fresco painting is the monumental wall-painting tradition of medieval Serbian churches and monasteries, developed chiefly under the Nemanjić dynasty from the late twelfth century onward.
Serbian Modernism
Serbian Modernism (Српска модерна, Srpska moderna) is the literary movement that introduced symbolism into Serbian letters, centered on Belgrade from the 1890s to World War I.
Serbian Orthodox Archbishopric and Patriarchate of Peć
The Serbian Orthodox Archbishopric and Patriarchate of Peć (Пећка патријаршија) was the national church of medieval Serbia, founded by Saint Sava in 1219 and raised to a patriarchate in 1346.
Serbian Orthodox Church (Српска православна црква)
The Serbian Orthodox Church (Српска православна црква) is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church led by Patriarch Porfirije, covering Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo, and diaspora dioceses.
Serbian Progressive Party
Serbian Progressive Party (SNS, Српска напредна странка), right-wing populist ruling party of Serbia, founded 2008 by ex-Radicals Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić; governed since 2012 with the SPS, now facing early elections after student protests.
Serbian Radical Party (Српска радикална странка)
Serbian Radical Party (Српска радикална странка, SRS), far-right ultranationalist Serbian party founded by Vojislav Šešelj, founding assembly 1991, seeking a Greater Serbia; distinct from the 1881 National Radical Party.
Serbian Revolution
Serbian Revolution (Српска револуција), 1804–1835: First and Second Serbian Uprisings led by Karađorđe and Miloš Obrenović against Ottoman rule, ending with autonomy, the 1835 Sretenje Constitution, and abolition of feudalism; named by Ranke in 1829.
Serbian Romanticism
Serbian Romanticism (Српски романтизам) is the nineteenth-century Serbian literary movement that built artistic literature on folk language and poetry, dominant from the 1840s until realism succeeded it in the 1870s.
Serbian Social Democratic Party
The Serbian Social Democratic Party (SSDP) was a left-wing party in the Kingdom of Serbia, founded in 1903 and known for opposing the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913.
Serbian SuperLiga (Суперлига Србије)
Serbian SuperLiga (Суперлига Србије), Serbia's top football division, run as Mozzart Bet Super liga Srbije. Reform adopted 2025 cuts it from 16 to 12 clubs via a 14-club 2026/27 season, with a three-phase play-off/play-out format from 2027/28.
Serbian Uprisings (1804 and 1815)
The Serbian Uprisings (Sırp İsyanları) were two Serbian rebellions in the Belgrade Pashalik, in 1804 and 1815, led by Karađorđe and Milosh Obrenovic, ending in Serbian autonomy.
Serbian Vojvodina
Serbian Vojvodina (Srpska Vojvodina) was a short-lived self-proclaimed autonomous Serbian entity in the Austrian Empire, proclaimed at the May Assembly in Sremski Karlovci on 15 May 1848.
Serbian Vojvodina uprising
The Serbian Vojvodina uprising (Српска Војводина) was the armed and political struggle of the Serbs of southern Hungary in 1848 and 1849, ending in the Habsburg Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar.
Serbian–Ottoman Wars (1876–1878)
The Serbian–Ottoman Wars (Serbian: Српско-турски ратови), also called the Serbian Wars for Independence, were two wars fought by Serbia against the Ottoman Empire in 1876–1877 and 1877–1878.
Serbo-Bulgarian War
The Serbo-Bulgarian War was a brief war between Serbia and Bulgaria from 14 to 28 November 1885, triggered by Serbia's attempt to reverse Bulgaria's unification with Eastern Rumelia.
Serbo-Byzantine style
The Serbo-Byzantine style, also called the Vardar style, is a Serbian medieval architectural style fusing Byzantine church design with the Raška school, prominent from the late 13th to the late 14th century.
Serbo-Croatian (српскохрватски)
Serbo-Croatian (српскохрватски), also BCMS, is the pluricentric Štokavian South Slavic standard language of Yugoslavia, dissolved in 1991 into Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin standards that remain almost fully mutually intelligible.
Serbs (Срби)
Serbs (Срби, Srbi) are a South Slavic people of the Balkans, speaking Serbian and mainly Eastern Orthodox, living mostly in Serbia, Republika Srpska, and Montenegro.
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, also called Bosnian Serbs, are one of BiH's three constituent peoples, Orthodox and Cyrillic-script, about 35% in 1991, concentrated in Republika Srpska, the Serb-majority entity created by the 1995 Dayton Agreement.
Serbs of Montenegro
Serbs of Montenegro are the country's second-largest ethnic group: 205,370 people, 32.93% at the 2023 census, Serbian-speaking and Orthodox, with identity shaped largely by politics around statehood.
SERCA calcium pump
The SERCA calcium pump is a P-type ATPase that hydrolyzes one ATP to move two calcium ions into the endoplasmic reticulum, relaxing muscle and refilling calcium stores.