One of the visions of the borders of Greater Serbia as advocated by Serbian Radical politician Vojislav Šešelj, defined by the Virovitica–Karlovac–Karlobag hypothetical boundary to the west.
The term Greater Serbia or Great Serbia (Serbian: Велика Србија, romanized: Velika Srbija) describes the Serbian nationalist and irredentist ideology of the creation of a Serb state which would incorporate all regions of traditional significance to Serbs, a South Slavic ethnic group, including regions outside modern-day Serbia that are partly populated by Serbs.[1] The initial movement's main ideology (Pan-Serbism) was to unite all Serbs (or all territory historically ruled, seen to be populated by, or perceived to be belonging to Serbs) into one state, claiming, depending on the version, different areas of many surrounding countries, regardless of non-Serb populations present.
The Greater Serbian ideology includes claims to various territories aside from modern-day Serbia, including the whole of the former Yugoslavia except Slovenia and part of Croatia. According to Jozo Tomasevich, in some historical forms, Greater Serbian aspirations also included parts of Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.[2] Its inspiration comes from the medieval Serbian Empire which existed briefly in 14th-century Southeast Europe from 1346 to 1371, prior to the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans. Some territories intended to be incorporated in the Greater Serbia exceeded the boundaries of the Serbian Empire, however.
The term GreaterSerbia or Great Serbia (Serbian: Велика Србија, romanized: Velika Srbija) describes the Serbian nationalist and irredentist ideology...
Serbia and Montenegro (Serbian: Cрбија и Црна Гора, Srbija i Crna Gora), known until 2003 as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbian: Савезна Република...
agreed to this exchange. The Greater Croatian ideology, combined with Nazi racial theory, culminated in the genocide of Serbs, the Holocaust and the Porajmos...
side did not aim to restore Yugoslavia; instead, it aimed to create a "GreaterSerbia" from parts of Croatia and Bosnia. Other irredentist movements have...
by Serbian Radical Party members: Serbia portal Politics portal Conservatism portal Serbian nationalism GreaterSerbia Party of Serb Radicals Serbian Radical...
of greaterSerbian ideology". Ilija Garašanin was another early proponent of Serbian nationalism and a proponent of a GreaterSerbia - a Serbian state...
and Bosniaks living in areas intended to be part of GreaterSerbia were to be cleansed of non-Serbs regardless, in accordance with Mihailović's directive...
Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian...
memorandum in July 1941, that defined the borders of an ethnically pure GreaterSerbia. A similar document was put forward to the Yugoslav government-in-exile...
wars was to create an ethnically pure Serbian state, or "GreaterSerbia", encompassing Serbia as well as the Serb-populated areas in former Yugoslavia...
Serbs living in Croatia, supported by Serbia, opposed the secession and advocated Serb-claimed lands to be in a common state with Serbia. Most Serbs sought...
parts of Serbia prior to the unification. The state was ruled by the Serbian dynasty of Karađorđević, which previously ruled the Kingdom of Serbia under...
projects often use the term "Greater" to label the desired outcome of their expansion, as in "GreaterSerbia" or "Greater Russia". Irredentism is often...
is a GreaterSerbia, and if not that, then a Federal Yugoslavia". Serbia provided logistical support, money and supplies to the VRS. Bosnian Serbs had...
partition of the country along ethnic lines. Bosniak nationalism Greater Croatia GreaterSerbia Sandys, Peter J. (2019). The Waning of the West: an Inconvenient...
the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from the merger of the Kingdom of Serbia with the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (which was formed...
The coat of arms of the Republic of Serbia (Serbian Cyrillic: грб Републике Србије, romanized: grb Republike Srbije) consists of two main heraldic symbols...
German-occupied Serbia Nedić's Serbia (Serbian: Недићева Србија/Nedićeva Srbija) SerbiaSerbia–Banat Serbia under German military administration Serbia under German...
The Serbs of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian: Срби у Хрватској / Srbi u Hrvatskoj) or Croatian Serbs (Serbo-Croatian: Хрватски Срби / Hrvatski Srbi) constitute...
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