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Bulgarian Crimes against Civilians in Occupied Serbia during the First World War
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2013)
Since sufferings of civilian populations during the First World War in Europe, especially war crimes perpetrated against civilians, have - unlike the political and military history of the Great War - only recently become ...
Alone of All Her Sex? The Dutch Jeanne Merkus and the Hitherto Hidden Other Viragos in the Balkans during the Great Eastern Crisis (1875–1878)
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2017)
This paper deals with the question as to whether the well-reported Dutch volunteer warrior Jeanne Merkus was indeed the sole female fighter at the time of the anti-Ottoman rebellions and the wars in the Balkan Peninsula ...
David Urquhart’s Perceptions of the Eastern Question. The Affairs of Serbia
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2014)
At the beginning of his diplomatic career in Constantinople in 1835, David Urquhart was instrumental in promoting the British cause by endorsing its political grand design and mercantile interests in Turkey, Greece, the ...
Between word of the law and practice: A case of the Hungarian speakers in Serbia
(Berlin : De Gruyter, 2017)
The paper initially presents the Serbian legislative framework relevant to the use of minority languages. The ethnolinguistic vitality of the Hungarian-speaking population in Serbia is then analysed, particularly in the ...
Italian Volunteers in Serbia in 1914
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2018)
Seven Italian volunteers decided on 29 July 1914 to join the Serbian army responding to a proclamation issued by the son of Giuseppe Garibaldi, Ricciotti. They were Republicans and Anarchists, and saw their engagement as ...
Grand Župan Uroš II of Rascia
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2016)
Historical data on the person and policies of the “veliki [grand] župan” Uroš II - archžupan in Byzantine sources, magnus comes in Latin texts - can be found in twelfth-century Serbian, Greek, Hungarian, German and Russian ...
Official Commemoration of the NATO Bombing of Serbia. A Case Study of the Fifteenth Anniversary
(Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2016)
This article analyses how NATO’s bombing of Serbia has been officially commemorated in that country. Initially, it provides an overview of the commemorations performed between 2000 and 2013, covering both the commemorative ...
The New Territories of Serbia after the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913. The Establishment of the First Local Authorities
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2013)
In the Balkan Wars of 1912-13, the Kingdom of Serbia wrested Old Serbia and Macedonia from Ottoman rule. The process of instituting the constitutional order and local government institutions in the liberated and annexed ...
Herbert Vivian. A British Traveller in Late Nineteenth-Century Serbia
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2013)
The famous British journalist and author Herbert Vivian (1865-1940) visited Serbia twice (1896 and 1903). On his first visit he stayed for several months in order to research into everyday life, customs, political situation ...
The Double Wreath: A Contribution to the History of Kingship in Bosnia
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2014)
The fact that ban Tvrtko of Bosnia had maternal ties with Nemanjić dynasty and seized certain areas of the former Serbian Empire was used as a basis for him to be crowned king of the Serbs and Bosnia in 1377 in the monastery ...