THE SERBS AND THEIR STATEHOOD FROM THE SETTLING TO THE BALKAN PENINSULA UNTIL THE FIRST SERBIAN UPRISING: AN OVERVIEW

• Main Authors: Ema MILJKOVI Ć, Ionuţ Cojocaru
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editura Academiei Oamenilor de Ştiinţă din România 2015-11-01
• Series: Annals: Series on History and Archaeology (Academy of Romanian Scientists)
• Subjects: The Serbs; Serbian History; Serbian State; Serbian Statehood; Nemanji ć Dynasty; the Ottomans
• Online Access: http://aos.ro/wp-content/anale/IVol7Nr2Art.2.pdf

The aim of this paper is the overview of the Serbian history since their migration to the Balkan Peninsula in the 7th century until the First Serbian Uprising in the beginning of the 19th century. The authors wanted to present the development of the Serbian history from the tribe (7th century) to the state (9thcentury) and then to the statehood (12th century). The special attention has been paid to the period under the Ottoman rule, since it was a period of the lost statehood, but the Serbs, as well as the Romanians, although in the different circumstances, managed to maintain their national identity and religion. The First Serbian Uprising presents the beginning of the modern statehood in the Serbian history.