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The Russian Secret Service and King Alexander Obrenović of Serbia (1900–1903)
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2012)
The period of 1900-1903 saw three phases of cooperation between the Russian Secret Service (Okhrana) and King Alexander Obrenović of Serbia. It is safe to say that the Secret Service operated in Serbia as an extended arm ...
The First Coronation Churches of Medieval Serbia
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2017)
The medieval ceremony of coronation as a rule took place in the most important church of a realm. The sites of the coronation of Serbian rulers before the establishment of the Žiča monastery church as the coronation church ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Modernization Mixed with Nationalism
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2014)
This essay reflects on a particular manner in which modernisation have taken place in the Balkans in modern history, from the 1878 Berlin Congress onwards. The Balkan countries faced twofold difficulties in their development: ...
Pašić and Milovanović in the Negotiations for the Conclusion of the Balkan Alliance of 1912
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2014)
This essay examines the divergence in views and actions between the two leading Serbian statesmen, Nikola Pašić and Milovan Milovanović, during the course of negotiations with Bulgaria which led to the conclusion of the ...
Serbia, the Serbo-Albanian Conflict and the First Balkan War
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2014)
After the restoration of Serbia in 1830, the areas of medieval Serbia left out of her borders were dubbed Old Serbia - Kosovo, Metohija, Rascia (the former sanjak of Novi Pazar and the neighbouring areas). Old Serbia (from ...
Croatian Pretensions to Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1848
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2014)
Since the early 1860s many Croat politicians, both prominent (from Ante Starčević and Ante Pavelić to Franjo Tudjman) and little known, have been openly expressing the ambition to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina to Croatia ...