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- The first Serb immigrants who arrived in America came from the Adriatic coast. Most of the second and biggest wave of immigration came from areas that were ruled by Austria-Hungary and Turkey at that time; these were places like Lika, Bania, Kordun, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Slavonia, Vojvodina, Kosovo and Metohija, as well as Montenegro.
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Serbian Americans (Serbian: српски Американци / srpski Amerikanci) or American Serbs (амерички Срби / američki Srbi), are Americans of ethnic Serb ancestry. As of 2013, there were about 190,000 American citizens who identified as having Serb ancestry.
Serbian immigration to the United States is only one of many Serbian migrations in a 13-century-long history. In the 14th century the Turkish invasion and oppressive rule over Serbian lands caused several large scale migrations to the north and west.
Jul 8, 2022 · Despite being one of the smaller ethnic communities in the United States, Serbian-Americans created and shaped American and world history, from George Fisher, one of Texas’ founders, to Mihajlo Pupin, who came to the United States with $5 and became one of the greatest minds ever, to Tesla, who illuminated the world.
During the sixth and seventh centuries, the Serbs, with other Slavic tribes, entered their Balkan homeland from the north and unlike their predecessors, Visigoths, Huns, Ostrogoths and Avars, formed permanent settlements there.
Serbian culture is based on Eastern Orthodox dogmas and ethics. Saint Sava expressed Serbian orthodoxy through the independent Serbian church which he established in 1219.
1 day ago · Serbian (and later Yugoslav) leader Slobodan Milošević attempted to craft a “Greater Serbia” from the former union, but his policies instead led to the secession of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia and civil war in the early 1990s.
Unlike Jovanović, who was a thoughtful student rather than a toiling immigrant, the Serb immigrants arriving in America during this period found low paying industrial jobs, lived in ethnic ghettoes, had a hard time learning English and no time for education.
