Subgroup of Slavic peoples who speak the South Slavic languages
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South Slavs
Countries where a South Slavic language is the national language
Countries where East and West Slavic languages are the national language
Total population
c. 30 million
Regions with significant populations
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia
Languages
Eastern South Slavic: Bulgarian Macedonian Western South Slavic: Serbo-Croatian (Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian) Slovene
Religion
Eastern Orthodoxy: (Bulgarians, Macedonians, Montenegrins and Serbs)[citation needed]
Roman Catholicism: (Croats, Slovenes and Bunjevci)[citation needed]
Sunni Islam: (Bosniaks, Pomaks, Gorani, Torbeši and Ethnic Muslims)[citation needed]
Related ethnic groups
Other Slavs
South Slavs are Slavic people who speak South Slavic languages and inhabit a contiguous region of Southeast Europe comprising the eastern Alps and the Balkan Peninsula. Geographically separated from the West Slavs and East Slavs by Austria, Hungary, Romania, and the Black Sea, the South Slavs today include Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbs and Slovenes.
In the 20th century, the country of Yugoslavia (from Serbo-Croatian, literally meaning "South Slavia" or "South Slavdom") united a majority of the South Slavic peoples and lands—with the exception of Bulgarians and Bulgaria—into a single state. The Pan-Slavic concept of Yugoslavia emerged in late 17th-century Croatia, at the time part of the Habsburg monarchy, and gained prominence through the 19th-century Illyrian movement. The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929, was proclaimed on 1 December 1918, following the unification of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs with the kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro. With the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, several independent sovereign states were formed.
The term "Yugoslavs" was and sometimes is still used as a synonym for "South Slavs", but it never includes Bulgarians, and sometimes only refers to the citizens or inhabitants of former Yugoslavia, or only to those who officially registered themselves as ethnic Yugoslavs.
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Great Moravia. The East Slavs followed with the official adoption in 988 by Vladimir the Great of Kievan Rus'. The West Slavs' process of Christianisation...
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the South Slavic people and languages can be explained by two separate migratory waves of different Slavic tribal groups of the future SouthSlavs via...
to free Bosnia from Austrian rule and achieve the unification of the SouthSlavs. After attending anti-Austrian demonstrations in Sarajevo, he was expelled...
The 2015 IBD analysis found that the SouthSlavs have lower proximity to Greeks than with East Slavs and West Slavs and that there's an "even patterns of...
conquest separated the West Slavs from the SouthSlavs which influenced the formation of new Slavic identities. Part of Moravian Slavs also fled to the Duchy...
Romanians, Gagauz), but less with Balts, while the SouthSlavs share similar number with East and West Slavs, but fewer with Greeks. The phenomenon of distinct...
together with other Slavic movements such as the political movement of Pan-Slavism. The first and subsequent slets included an elaborate welcoming ceremony...
and ethnology, regarded the SouthSlavs as the descendants of ancient Illyrians. When Napoleon conquered part of the South Slavic lands, these areas were...
was signed, the Comanches lit signal fires on the area hills. Amongst SouthSlavs (Serbs, Montenegrins, Slovenes, Croats, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Bunjevci...
frontier in the early 6th century and who were the early SouthSlavs) and of the Antes (East Slavs). Specifically, he states that the Sclaveni and the Antes...
Genetic studies on Serbs show close affinity to other neighboring SouthSlavs. Y-chromosomal haplogroups identified among the Serbs from Serbia and near...
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that the SouthSlavs have lower proximity to Greeks than with East Slavs and West Slavs, and "even patterns of IBD sharing among East-West Slavs–'inter-Slavic'...
forming three main branches: the West Slavs in eastern Central Europe, the East Slavs in Eastern Europe, and the SouthSlavs in Southeastern Europe (Balkans)...
Yugoslavia (/ˌjuːɡoʊˈslɑːviə/; lit. 'Land of the SouthSlavs') was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992. It came into...
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