Serbs in Dubrovnik

The Serbs of Dubrovnik made up 3.25% of the town's population according to the 2001 Croatian population census. [ [http://www.dzs.hr/hrv/censuses/census2001/Popis/Graphs/SRBposto_zupbody.html#mbz19 Republika Hrvatska - Državni zavod za statistiku: Popis 2001] ] Their number before the Croatian War of Independence was higher - in the 1991 census, 4,765 (6.7%) people in Dubrovnik municipality declared as Serbs. [ [http://www.un.org/icty/indictment/english/str-ii010227e.htm ICTY] ] Historically, a number of notable Dubrovnik Catholics came to espouse a Serb national ideology and political goals. [ [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-6779%28198323%2942%3A3%3C448%3ATC%22ATD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O&size=LARGE Ivo Banac: The Confessional "Rule" and the Dubrovnik Exception: The Origins of the "Serb-Catholic" Circle in Nineteenth-Century Dalmatia] ]

Still, the Serbs from Dubrovnik from 2nd half of 20th century were the ones that came from neighbouring Eastern Herzegovina, as well as one that were military personnel of JNA and JRM.
For a short period of time, at the 2nd half of 19th century there was a Serbia-sponsored political movement of "Serb Catholics", that ceased to exist after the financial support from drained, and locals that stood by that policy came to their senses and abandoned the romantical views on Serbs and Serbia. By 1918 and formation of Yugoslavia, that movement ended.

Organisations

*Zadruga Srpkinja Dubrovkinja - founded in 1887
*Srpska dubrovačka akademska omladina - founded in 1900
*Srpska Zora - founded in 1901
*Gimnastičko-sokolsko društvo Dušan Silni - founded in 1907 and headed by Mate Gracić
*Matica srpska - founded in 1909, thanks to Konstantin Vuković
*Pasarićeva štamparija
*Štamparija Mata Gracića
*Savez srpskih zemljoradničkih zadruga
*Srpska štedionica
*"Dubrovnik" - a Serb newspaper

Notable individuals

*Aleksandar Apolonio
*Valtazar Bogišić
*Lujo Vojnović
*Milan Rešetar
*Henrih Barić
*Milan Milišić
*Antun Fabris
*Matija Ban
*Pero Budmani
*Ivo Kaznačić
*Luko Zore
*Krsto Dominković
*Antonije Vučetić
*Miho Vaketi
*Stefan Ivićević
*Marko Car
*Petar Kolendić
*Ivo Miljan
*Antun Kazali
*Antun Puljezi
*Jero Puljezi
*Ignjat Job
*Hermenegild-Đildo Job
*Mato Gracić
*Frano Kulišić
*Vid Vuletić Vukasović
*Mato Vodopić
*Ivo Šubert
*Stijepo Kobasica
*Marko Murat
*Vlaho Matijević
*Ivo Stanojević
*Dragutin Pretner
*Vjekoslav Pretner
*Blažo Zlopaša

Croatian War

During the Croatian war of independence, from October 1991 to May 1992, the Greater Serb-led Yugoslav People's Army assisted by Serb & Montenegrin paramilitariesFact|date=February 2007 put the city of Dubrovnik under siege and bombarded it with the objective of including it in a Serbian state. As a beginning of Serbo-Montenegrin aggression, in ideological terms, could be considered the inaugural gathering of Serb Democratic Party in Dubrovnik on March 10, 1991. [hr icon [http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=d95c2a09-dcb7-4aa0-9b28-8027dada964b&articleId=dac89987-bf1d-4f5e-92d8-aaa12cfaff1c Časopis za suvremenu povijest br. 1/2003.] Jakša Raguž: Osnivački skup SDS-a za Dubrovnik - otvorena najava agresije na dubrovačko područje
(Inaugural gathering of the Serb Democratic Party in Dubrovnik – an open announcement of aggresion on Dubrovnik region) ]

The first victim of the Serb bombing of Dubrovnik was a local Serb, poet Milan Milišić.Fact|date=February 2007 ICTY indictments have been issued for generals and officers of the Yugoslav People's Army who were involved in the bombing [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1575387.stm BBC News | EUROPE | Dubrovnik siege suspects named ] ] .

See also

*Dubrovnik
*Serbs of Croatia

References

External links

* [http://www.rastko.org.yu/rastko-du/istorija/jmitrovic/1992/jmitrovic-dubrovnik_l.html Srpstvo Dubrovnika] Sr icon
* [http://www.dzs.hr/hrv/censuses/census2001/census.htm Hrvatski popis stanovništva 2001] Hr icon
* [http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/hr-h848.html#1904 Flag of cultural society "Croatian and Serbian People's Home" from Cavtat (South of Dubrovnik) dating 1905]
* [http://www.rastko.org.yu/rastko-bo/istorija/zastava1905_l.html Narodna zastava ujedinjenih Srba i Hrvata, Dubrovnik 1905] Sr icon