English

Noun

Serbdom ‎(uncountable)

1. The Serb ethnic identity and community.
   • Mary Fulbrook (1993) National histories and European history, Westview Press, ISBN 978-0-8133-1956-8, page 146

     Serb identity (the centrality of Orthodoxy to the definition of Serbdom; the continuity of Serbian state tradition; the relations of the Serbs to the other South Slavs)

   • Iván Zoltán Dénes (2006) Liberty and the Search for Identity: Liberal Nationalisms and the Legacy of Empires, Central European University Press, ISBN 978-963-7326-44-8, page 405

     ...raised the public opinion to an awareness of the national solidarity of Serbia with the other parts of Serbdom, and, along with it, awareness of a Slav unity.

   • William Jovanovich (1998) Serbdom, Black Mountain Publishers, ISBN 978-0-9667623-0-3, page 119:

     In those dark times what consoled him was Serbdom, the comity of all Serbs who know their sacrifices and do not regret them.

   • Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal, Oxford University Press, USA, 16 February 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-973036-0, 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.

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