Milan Đukić (Serb People's Party Leader)
Milan Đukić may refer to: * Milan Đukić (politician), Croatian Serb politician * Milan Đukić (Vojvodina politician), Serbian politician in the province of Vojvodina *Milan Đukić (handballer) Milan Đukić (; born 16 August 1985) is a Serbian handball player for Macedonian club Eurofarm Pelister and the Serbia national team. Club career After playing for his hometown club Radnički Kragujevac, Đukić moved across the border to ...

Milan Đukić (politician)
Milan Đukić (; 10 April 1947, in Donji Lapac – 8 October 2007, in Donji Lapac) was a Croatian Serb politician. He was the leader of the Serb People's Party, and a former Deputy Speaker of the Croatian Parliament. Biography Đukić lead the Serb People's Party from the 1990s until his death in 2007. His party represented ethnic Serbs in Croatia who did not join a separatist rebellion against Croatia's independence movement from the former Yugoslavia. Đukić was the subject of heavy criticism from both Croats and Serbs within Croatia. Croats disliked him because he criticized the government's treatment of ethnic Serbs, who are the country's largest minority group. Ethnic Serbs at times disliked Đukić because he was seen as part of Croatia's political establishment. Đukić served as a lawmaker and Member of Parliament from 1992 until 2003. He served as Deputy Speaker of the Parliament from 1992 until 1996. His influence in government gradually diminished as other ethnic Se ...
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Serbs Of Croatia
The Serbs of Croatia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", Срби у Хрватској, Srbi u Hrvatskoj) or Croatian Serbs ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", хрватски Срби, hrvatski Srbi) constitute the largest national minority in Croatia. The community is predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christian by religion, as opposed to the Croats who are Roman Catholic. In some regions of modern-day Croatia, mainly in southern Dalmatia, ethnic Serbs have been present from the Early Middle Ages. Serbs from modern-day Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina started actively migrating to Croatia in several migration waves after 1538 when the Emperor Ferdinand I granted them the right to settle on the territory of the Military Frontier. In exchange for land and exemption from taxation, they had to conduct military service and participate in the protection of the Habsburg monarchy's border against the Ottoman Empire. They populated the Dalmatian Hinterland, Lika, Kordun, Banovina, Slavonia, an ...
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Milan Đukić (Vojvodina Politician)
Milan Đukić ( sr-cyr, Милан Ђукић; born 11 March 1975) is a politician in Serbia, currently serving his second term in the Assembly of Vojvodina. Đukić is a member of the Serbian Renewal Movement (''Srpski pokret obnove'', SPO). Private career Đukić is a lawyer. He lives in Novi Sad. Politician The SPO contested the 2008 Vojvodina provincial election as part of the '' For a European Vojvodina'' alliance led by the Democratic Party (''Demokratska stranka'', DS). Đukić received the twenty-fourth position on the alliance's electoral list and was awarded a mandate after the list won twenty-three seats. (From 2000 to 2011, mandates in Serbian elections held under proportional representation were awarded to parties or coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Đukić's list position had no specific bearing on whether or not he received a mandate.) ''For a European Vojvodina'' won a m ...
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Vojvodina
Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital Belgrade and the Sava and Danube Rivers. The administrative center, Novi Sad, is the second-largest city in Serbia. The historic regions of Banat, Bačka, and Syrmia overlap the province. Modern Vojvodina is multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, with some 26 ethnic groups and six official languages. About two million people, nearly 27% of Serbia's population, live in the province. Naming ''Vojvodina'' is also the Serbian word for voivodeship, a type of duchy overseen by a voivode. The Serbian Voivodeship, a precursor to modern Vojvodina, was an Austrian province from 1849 to 1860. Its official name is the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. Its name in the province's six official languages is: * Croatian: ''Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina'' * ...
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