What shapes Sebian national identity? The answer is complex and personal, but one key element is the Sebian national narrative. This includes the heroes and pivotal events taught in schools, the places central to the nation’s collective memory, and the language and beliefs that frame its worldview. A national narrative goes beyond history: it is […]

Serbian holidays show how civic and religious identity are often interchangeable in Serbia. Religion enters into almost every holiday listed below. Many of these holidays focus on family and tradition, but many observances focus on the sacrifices that Serbs have made in wars and battles ranging from the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 to WWI […]

Serbian cuisine is heavy on meat, dairy, and grains, a product of the nation’s geography and history. Serbia’s mountainous south lends itself to pastoralism and the earliest Serbs were mostly herdsmen. The Ottomans, who dominated Serbia from the 14th-19th centuries, were more interested in Serbia’s fertile river valleys, concentrated in the north. Serbs and their […]

The Talking Phrasebook Series presents useful phrases and words in side-by-side translation and with audio files specifically geared to help students work on listening skills and pronunciation. Below, you will find several useful phrases and words. To the left is the English and to the far right is the Serbian translation in both Latin and […]