Serbdom
See also: Serbiandom
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editSerbdom (uncountable)
- The Serbs, as a people, seen as constituting a unified cultural or political community.
- 2003, William Jovanovich, The Temper of the West, page 106:
- In those dark times what consoled him was Serbdom, the comity of all Serbs who know their sacrifices and do not regret them.
- 2011, Gerard Toal, Carl T Dahlman, Bosnia Remade, page 53:
- The dilemma arose from what nationalists perceived as an intolerable disjuncture between the broad geographical extent of Serbdom—the imagined community of Serbs—and the Serbian state as a territorial homeland.
- 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 62:
- Serbia had needed the nationalist networks in the past and would depend on them again when the moment came, as Pašić knew it some day would, to redeem Bosnia and Herzegovina for Serbdom.
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editstate of being a Serb (both Balkan and Lusatian)