СРБИ У ХРВАТСКОЈ
Serbs in Croatia

Summary/Abstract: At the end of the 20 Century, the territory of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) was marked by new states in which Serbs lost their status of constitutional people and became national minority. One of these new states is Croatia, in which Serbs are about to start proving their cultural identity. At the present time, Serbs in Croatia are an unstudied national minority. There are some ethnological research projects, but they are not sufficient for understanding the problem in total. Today, Serbs in the Republic of Croatia live in the following areas: Istra, north Dalmatia, Kordun, Lika, Gorski Kotar, Banija and west and east Slavonia. On the territories populated by Serbs, and beyond them, different cultures were dominant in the past, which resulted in differences in traditional cultural heritage within this relatively small territory (for example, differences in traditional culture of Dalmatia and Slavonia in clothing, cuisine, living conditions, working, customs…) After 1995, a big number of Serbs moved permanently or temporarily to Serbia (especially Vojvodina) and Montenegro, which suggests a need for researching Serbs from Croatia on these territories too, not only in the Republic of Croatia.

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