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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Church of the Holy Virgin of the Studenica Monastery in Serbia was built by Stefan Nemanja, the progenitor of the medieval Serbian dynasty of Nemanjić, to serve as a monastery and his burial church. There are no ...

Razvoj etnolingvistike moÿe se pratiti od XVIII (J. G. Herder), XIX veka (V. Humbolt, A. Afanasjev, F. I. Buslajev, A. A. Potebnja), tokom åitavog XX veka (F. Boas, E. Sapir 40-tih godina; semiotiåari V. V. Ivanov i V. N. ...

This paper argues that reporting on the Balkan Wars by some of the Austro-Hungarian media and state officials on the ground was not impartial, but rather aimed to obtain international public support for the planned military ...

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 ...