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Religion in Serbia, the Glossary

Serbia has been traditionally a Christian country since the Christianization of Serbs by Clement of Ohrid and Saint Naum in the 9th century.^[1]

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Ada, Serbia

Ada (Ада; Ada) is a town and municipality located in the North Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.

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Agnosticism

Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or currently unknown in fact.

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Albanians

The Albanians (Shqiptarët) are an ethnic group native to the Balkan Peninsula who share a common Albanian ancestry, culture, history and language.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against, Jews.

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Atheism

Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija

The Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (Kosovo i Metohija, Kosova dhe Metohia), commonly known as Kosovo (Косово, Albanian: Kosova) and abbreviated to Kosmet (from '''Kos'''ovo and '''Met'''ohija; Serbian Cyrillic: Космет) or KiM (Serbian Cyrillic: КиМ), is an autonomous province defined by the Constitution of Serbia that occupies the southernmost part of Serbia.

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Čoka

Čoka (Чока,; Csóka,; Tschoka; Čoka) is a town and municipality located in the North Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.

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Bačka Topola

Bačka Topola (Бачка Топола,; Topolya) is a town and municipality located in the North Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.

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Bački Petrovac

Bački Petrovac (Бачки Петровац; Báčsky Petrovec; Petrőc) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.

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Balkans

The Balkans, corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions.

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Bečej

Bečej (Бечеј,; Óbecse) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.

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Belgrade

Belgrade.

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Belgrade Synagogue

The Belgrade Synagogue (script), officially the Sukkat Shalom Synagogue (script), is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in central Belgrade, near Obilićev Venac Square and central high street Knez Mihailova, in Serbia.

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Bosniaks

The Bosniaks (Bošnjaci, Cyrillic: Бошњаци,; Bošnjak, Bošnjakinja) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia, which is today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who share a common Bosnian ancestry, culture, history and language.

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Bujanovac

Bujanovac (Бујановац,; Bujanovc) is a town and municipality located in the Pčinja District of southern Serbia.

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Bulgarians

Bulgarians (bŭlgari) are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and its neighbouring region, who share a common Bulgarian ancestry, culture, history and language.

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Bunjevci

Bunjevci (Буњевци,; singular masculine|separator.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Catholic Church in Serbia

The Catholic Church in Serbia (Katolička crkva u Srbiji) is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in Serbia, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.

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Christians

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Clement of Ohrid

Clement or Kliment of Ohrid (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Климент Охридски, Kliment Ohridski; Κλήμης τῆς Ἀχρίδας, Klḗmēs tē̂s Akhrídas; Kliment Ochridský; – 916) was one of the first medieval Bulgarian saints, scholar, writer, and apostle to the Slavs.

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Conversion to Islam

Conversion to Islam is accepting Islam as a religion or faith and rejecting any other religion or irreligion.

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Croats

The Croats (Hrvati) or Horvati (in a more archaic version) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other neighboring countries in Central and Southeastern Europe who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language.

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Czechs

The Czechs (Češi,; singular Czech, masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.

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Dalmatia

Dalmatia (Dalmacija; Dalmazia; see names in other languages) is one of the four historical regions of Croatia, alongside Central Croatia, Slavonia, and Istria, located on the east shore of the Adriatic Sea in Croatia.

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East–West Schism

The East–West Schism, also known as the Great Schism or the Schism of 1054, is the break of communion between the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches since 1054.

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Eastern Catholic Churches

The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches, are 23 Eastern Christian autonomous (sui iuris) particular churches of the Catholic Church, in full communion with the Pope in Rome.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.

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Eastern Orthodoxy

Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.

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Eastern Orthodoxy in Serbia

Eastern Orthodoxy is the major Christian denomination in Serbia, with 6,079,396 followers or 85% of the population, followed traditionally by the majority of Serbs, and also Romanians and Vlachs, Montenegrins, Macedonians and Bulgarians living in Serbia.

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Eastern religions

The Eastern religions are the religions which originated in East, South and Southeast Asia and thus have dissimilarities with Western, African and Iranian religions.

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Freedom House

Freedom House is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. It is best known for political advocacy surrounding issues of democracy, political freedom, and human rights.

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Freedom of religion

Freedom of religion or religious liberty is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.

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Germans

Germans are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language.

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Gorani people

The Gorani or Goranci, are a Slavic Muslim ethnic group inhabiting the Gora region—the triangle between Kosovo, Albania, and North Macedonia.

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Hungarians

Hungarians, also known as Magyars (magyarok), are a Central European nation and an ethnic group native to Hungary and historical Hungarian lands (i.e. belonging to the former Kingdom of Hungary) who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language.

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Hungarians in Serbia

Hungarians in Serbia (Mađari u Srbiji; Szerbiai magyarok) are a recognized national minority in Serbia.

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Irreligion

Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Islam in Serbia

Serbia is a Christian majority country, with Islam being a minority faith representing around 4.2% of the total population (excluding the disputed region of Kosovo, in which Islam is the predominant faith) as per the 2022 census.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Judaism

Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.

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Kanjiža

Kanjiža (Кањижа, pronounced) formerly Stara Kanjiža (Стара Кањижа; קניזשא; Magyarkanizsa, formerly Kanizsa) is a town and municipality located in the North Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.

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Kingdom of Yugoslavia

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941.

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Kovačica

Kovačica (Ковачица,; Kovačica; Antalfalva; Covăcița) is a town and municipality located in the South Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.

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Latin Church

The Latin Church (Ecclesia Latina) is the largest autonomous (sui iuris) particular church within the Catholic Church, whose members constitute the vast majority of the 1.3 billion Catholics.

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Macedonians (ethnic group)

Macedonians (Makedonci) are a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group native to the region of Macedonia in Southeast Europe.

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Mali Iđoš

Mali Iđoš (Мали Иђош,; Kishegyes) is a village and municipality located in the North Bačka District of the autonomous province Vojvodina, Serbia.

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The mass media in Serbia refers to mass media outlets based in Serbia.

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Meša Selimović

Mehmed "Meša" Selimović (26 April 1910 – 11 July 1982) was a Yugoslav writer, whose works are widely considered some of the most important in Bosnian and Serbian literature.

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Methodism

Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.

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Montenegrins

Montenegrins (Black Mountain, or, Montenegrini) are a South Slavic ethnic group that share a common ancestry, culture, history, and language, identified with the country of Montenegro.

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Muslims (ethnic group)

"Muslims" (Serbo-Croatian Latin and Muslimani, Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic and Муслимани) is a designation for the ethnoreligious group of Serbo-Croatian-speaking Muslims of Slavic heritage, inhabiting mostly the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

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National Assembly (Serbia)

The National Assembly (Narodna skupština) or simply Skupština is the unicameral legislature of Serbia.

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New Belgrade

New Belgrade (Нови Београд / Novi Beograd) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade.

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Novi Pazar

Novi Pazar (Нови Пазар) is a city in Serbia.

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Novi Sad

Novi Sad (Нови Сад,; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia after the capital Belgrade and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina.

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Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Ottoman Empire era of rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina (first as a ''sanjak'', then as an ''eyalet'') and Herzegovina (also as a ''sanjak'', then ''eyalet'') lasted from 1463/1482 to 1878 de facto, and until 1908 de jure.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Pančevo

Pančevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Панчево,; Pantschowa; Pancsova; Panciova; Pánčevo) is a city and the administrative center of the South Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.

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Pannonian Rusyns

Pannonian Rusyns (translit), also known as Pannonian Rusnaks (translit), and formerly known as Yugoslav Rusyns (during the existence of former Yugoslavia), are ethnic Rusyns from the southern regions of the Pannonian Plain (hence, Pannonian Rusyns).

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Pew Research Center

The Pew Research Center (also simply known as Pew) is a nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.

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Preševo

Preševo (Прешево,; Preshevë) is a town and municipality located in the Pčinja District of southern Serbia.

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Preševo Valley

The Preševo Valley (Preševska dolina; Lugina e Preshevës) is a geopolitical region in southern Serbia, along the border with Kosovo.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Protestantism in Serbia

Protestants are the 4th largest religious group in Serbia, after Eastern Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholics and Muslims.

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Public holidays in Serbia

The public holidays in Serbia are defined by the Law of national and other holidays in the Republic of Serbia.

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Raška (region)

Raška (Рашка; Rascia) is a geographical and historical region of Serbia.

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Religion in Vojvodina

The dominant religion in Vojvodina is Orthodox Christianity, mainly represented by the Serbian Orthodox Church, while other important religions of the region are Catholic Christianity, Protestant Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.

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Religious discrimination

Religious discrimination is treating a person or group differently because of the particular beliefs which they hold about a religion.

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Religious festival

A religious festival is a time of special importance marked by adherents to that religion.

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Romani people

The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani and colloquially known as the Roma (Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle.

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Romanian Orthodox Church

The Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC; Biserica Ortodoxă Română, BOR), or Patriarchate of Romania, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, and one of the nine patriarchates in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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Romanians

Romanians (români,; dated exonym Vlachs) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation native to Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Sharing a common culture and ancestry, they speak the Romanian language and live primarily in Romania and Moldova. The 2021 Romanian census found that 89.3% of Romania's citizens identified themselves as ethnic Romanians.

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Romanians in Serbia

Romanians in Serbia (Românii din Serbia; Rumuni u Srbiji) are a recognized national minority in Serbia.

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Saint Naum

Naum (Bulgarian and Macedonian: Свети Наум, Sveti Naum, also known as Naum of Ohrid or Naum of Preslav (c. 830 – December 23, 910), was a medieval Bulgarian writer and missionary among the Slavs, considered one of the Seven Apostles of the First Bulgarian Empire. He was among the disciples of Cyril and Methodius and is associated with the creation of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic script.

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Saint Sava

Saint Sava (Sveti Sava,; Old Church Slavonic: ⰔⰂⰤⰕⰟ ⰔⰀⰂⰀ; Άγιος Σάββας; 1169 or 1174 – 14 January 1236), known as the Enlightener, was a Serbian prince and Orthodox monk, the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church, the founder of Serbian law, and a diplomat.

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Sandžak

Sandžak (Санџак) is a historical geo-political region located in the southwestern part of Serbia and the eastern part of Montenegro.

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Senta

Senta (Сента,; Hungarian: Zenta,; Romanian: Zenta) is a town and municipality located in the North Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.

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Serbia

Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain.

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Serbian language

Serbian (српски / srpski) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs.

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Serbian Orthodox Church

The Serbian Orthodox Church (Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.

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Serbs

The Serbs (Srbi) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to Southeastern Europe who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history, and language.

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Serbs in Vojvodina

The Serbs of Vojvodina are the largest ethnic group in this northern province of Serbia.

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Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist soteriology.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Serbia

Also known as Hinduism in Serbia, Hinduism in Serbia and Montenegro, Religious demographics of Serbia.

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