Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Lord in Zagreb

The Serbs of Zagreb ( sh, Srbi u Zagrebu / ) are a traditional minority group that lives in the

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Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slov ...

History

In 1718 the

Treaty of Passarowitz The Treaty of Passarowitz, or Treaty of Požarevac, was the peace treaty signed in Požarevac ( sr-cyr, Пожаревац, german: Passarowitz), a town that was in the Ottoman Empire but is now in Serbia, on 21 July 1718 between the Ottoman ...

opened the

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river and the

Adriatic Sea The Adriatic Sea () is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula. The Adriatic is the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea, extending from the Strait of Otranto (where it connects to the Ionian Sea) to t ...

for international trade with Austrian emperors granting priviledges to Ottoman traders including the right for "Greek" merchants to settle in

Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into prov ...

, Rijeka,

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. Serbs became equal citizens of Zagreb in 1781 after Emperor Francis II released an edict named

Patent of Toleration The Patent of Toleration (german: Toleranzpatent) was an edict of toleration issued on 13 October 1781 by the Habsburg emperor Joseph II. Part of the Josephinist reforms, the Patent extended religious freedom to non-Catholic Christians livi ...

Religious life

Zagreb is the seat of the

Metropolitanate of Zagreb, Ljubljana and all Italy Metropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana ( sr, Митрополија загребачко-љубљанска, Mitropolija zagrebačko-ljubljanska) is an Eastern Orthodox eparchy (diocese) and one of the five honorary Metropolitanates of the Se ...

. In addition to this there is also the Monastery of Saint Parascheva of the Balkans

Secular life

There are more prominent Serbs who participated in the social life of the city and among them may be enumerated the following. In 1834 Hristifor Stanković, president of the Zagreb Orthodox Church municipality, built the first theater in Gradec. Poet

Petar Preradović Petar Preradović (19 March 1818 – 18 August 1872) was a Croatian poet, writer, and military general. He was one of the most important Croatian poets of the 19th century Illyrian movement and the main representative of romanticism in Croatia. ...

was a prominent participant of the

Illyrian movement The Illyrian movement ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Ilirski pokret, Илирски покрет; sl, Ilirsko gibanje) was a pan-South-Slavic cultural and political campaign with roots in the early modern period, and revived by a group of young Croatian inte ...

after whom today one of the city squares is named. Banker Atanas Popović was one of the founders of

First Croatian Savings Bank The First Croatian Savings Bank ( hr, Prva hrvatska štedionica, german: Erste kroatische Sparkasse) was a significant Croatian bank headquartered in Zagreb. The bank was founded in 1846 and liquidated in 1945. It has been described as "the ...

. Father of

Dejan Medaković Dejan Medaković ( sr-cyr, Дејан Медаковић; 7 July 1922 – 1 July 2008) was a Serbian art historian, writer and academician. Medaković had served as President of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1998 to 2003, as Dean ...

, Bogdan Medaković was the

Speaker of the Croatian Parliament The speaker of the Croatian Parliament ( hr, Predsjednik Hrvatskog sabora, literally the president of the Croatian Parliament) is the presiding officer in the Croatian Parliament, Croatia's legislative body. Under Article 97 of the constituti ...

from 1913 till 1918.

Organizations

In Zagreb, there are several institutions of the Serbian national minority:

Prosvjeta The Serbian Cultural Society "Prosvjeta" (abbreviated: SKD "Prosvjeta" or sr-cyrl, СКД "Просвјета") in Zagreb, Croatia is an independent, non-governmental cultural and scientific organization that takes special responsibility for pro ...

, Serb Democratic Forum, Privrednik, Serb National Council, and Serbian Orthodox Secondary School. There is also the Central Library of Serbs in Croatia as part of Prosvjeta, Tesla Bank,

which maintains the Choral Society and Museum. Every year since 2006 there are held days of Serbian culture. Weekly Novosti (Croatia), Novosti and monthly magazine Identitet are published in Zagreb.

Notable individuals

*Kantakuzina Katarina Branković (1418–1492) *Đuro Daničić (1825–1882) *Vladan Desnica (1905–1967) *

(1922–2008)

References

Sources

External links

*http://www.snv.hr/ *http://www.danisrpskekulture.com/ History of the Serbs of Croatia Serb communities in Croatia History of Zagreb Serbs of Croatia, *Zagreb {{Zagreb-stub