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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 ...
Regent Alexander Karadjordjevic in the First World War
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2017)
This paper analyses the role played by Regent Alexander Karađorđević in Serbia’s politics and military effort during the First World War. He assumed the position of an heir-apparent somewhat suddenly in 1909, and then ...
Sava Nemanjić and Serbia between Epiros and Nicaea
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2014)
The authors analyze Serbia’s position and politics in relation to the Greek states of Epiros and Nicaea which emerged after the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1204. The available sources show that Serbia under Stefan 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 ...
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 ...