List of Serb countries and regions

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Main article: History of the Serbs

This is a list of Serb countries and regions throughout history, sometimes called Serb lands by historians (Serbian: Српске земље, Srpske zemlje). 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 or Serbia are an official, constitutional or titular nation
• Serbian as an official language
• A Serb ruling class or dynasty

Historical political entities

Early medieval

Map	Name	Years	Area	Notes
	White Serbia or Bojka	?	The location of White Serbia has been disputed. It has been described as: north of the Danube and the Carpathians the modern Czech Republic between the Elbe and Saale Rivers Poland Red Ruthenia Lusatia, triangle of Germany, Czech republic and Poland.	Traditional homeland of the White Serbs in Europe.
	Serbian Sklavinia	fl. 610-641 (680)	Balkans

Medieval

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.
		Serbian Principality [Duklja] (630s-1018, 1036–1077), Kingdom of Duklja and Dalmatia (1077-12th century, early 13th century-14th century)	1000-1148	Serbia BiH Montenegro Croatia Albania
		Principalities Travunia (~850-middle 10th century) Zachlumia (630s-1326), Lordship of the Chełm (1326–1448), Duchy of Saint Sava (1449–1482) Pagania (630s-12th century)
		Serbian Grand Principality [Rascia]	1091-1217	Serbia BiH Montenegro Croatia Albania Macedonia
		Serbian Kingdom	1217-1345	Serbia BiH Montenegro Croatia Albania Macedonia
		Kingdom of Syrmia	1282–1325	Serbia BiH
		Serbian Empire	1345-1371	Serbia Macedonia Montenegro Albania Greece Bulgaria
		Fall of the Serbian Empire 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 Voihna (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 Karlo Topija (-1387) Domain of Mrnjavčević house (14th century) Domain of Dragaš house (14th century) Domain of Sevastokrator Vlatko (14th century) Domain of Branković house (14th-15th century) Principality of Zeta of Balšić and Crnojević houses (1360s-1496) Domain of Čelnik Musa (14th century) Moravian Serbia (14th century-1402) Domain of Rastislalić house (14th century) Domain of Vojislav Vojinović (-1363) and Nikola Altomanović (1367-1373)
		Serbian Despotate	1402-1459 (titular Serbian despots existed until 1537 in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary)	Serbia Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro Albania
		Kingdom of Bosnia	1377–1463	Serbia Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro Croatia

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
		Habsburg Kingdom of Serbia	1718–1739	Serbia
		Kingdom of Slavonia	1745–1868	Serbia Croatia
		New Serbia	1752–1764	Ukraine
		Slavo-Serbia	1753–1764	Ukraine
		Koča's Frontier	1788–1791	Serbia
		Karađorđe's Serbia	1804–1813	Serbia Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro Bulgaria
		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
		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)
      • UN-administered Kosovo (1999–2008)
        • North Kosovo

Present political entities

Countries and territories with Serb population in 1998

Countries and territories with Serb population 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)

• Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Serb majority)
• Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (Serbian language official)

• Republic of Kosovo (partially recognised state, Serbian language official)

• North Kosovo (Serb majority)

• Bosnia and Herzegovina (constitutive nation)

• Republika Srpska (Serb majority)
• Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (constitutive nation)
• Brčko District (Serb plurality)

• Montenegro (32% of the population, 63% speaks Serbian)
• Croatia (minority, 4% of the population)
• Republic of Macedonia (minority)
• Hungary (minority)
• Albania (minority)
• Romania (minority)
• Slovakia (minority)
• Czech republic (minority)

Serbian lands-term

In 1857, while traveling across "Ancient Serbia", Alexander Fedorovich Gilferding (1831-1872), a Russian Slavist and travel writer of German origin, notes that "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".

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