Author name: Jeremiah

A black and white photograph by Spiridon Gopčević, showing a family in traditional dress from Old Serbia. Mother and father are sitting, flanked by their daughters, who are standing.

Old Serbia: a Geographic and Ethnographic Picture (1912), V

By: Jevto Dedijer V From the sixteenth century onwards in this region there are ethnographic changes, which have always come out to the detriment of the Serbian people. These ethnographic changes did not occur because Serbian people are less capable of cultural struggle, but due to a state joining a people to uproot the Serbian […]

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19th century copper gravure map, showing Serbia, Montenegro and parts of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.

Old Serbia: a Geographic and Ethnographic Picture (1912), IV

By: Jevto Dedijer IV Due to the unbearable political circumstances, especially with regards to the lack of security of life and the oppression of Albanians and Turks the economic circumstances in this region have remained, despite the huge natural wealth, very primitive. The rural populace practices animal husbandry, agriculture and are migrant labourers. The south-facing

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Landscape photograph of Ovce Pole in North Macedonia.

Old Serbia: a Geographic and Ethnographic Picture (1912), III

By: Jevto Dedijer III According to various natural characteristics of Old Serbia we can distinguish two parts, the Skoplje one and the Kosovo part of Old Serbia. Both are separated with the Šara-Karadag mountain range, which creates not only one barrier to traffic, but creates an important climate and phytogeographic border. On the southern side,

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An early 20th century map showing the extent of Serbia, Old Serbia and Macedonia and Montenegro before the First Balkan War in 1912.

Old Serbia: a Geographic and Ethnographic Picture (1912), I

By: Jevto Dedijer In this article I tried to give a well-rounded image about the land and inhabitants of Old Serbia. The materials were mostly taken from Cvijić’s work “The Basic Geography and Geology of Macedonia and Old Serbia”, which due to its voluminosity and a strictly scientific character is not accessible to the wider

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The cover of the 1880 Austro-Hungarian census of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

On the emigration of Bosnian Mohammedans (1910)

By Jovan Cvijić Published originally in “Književni glasnik”, 16. June 1910. It is known that Mohammedans started emigrating from Bosnia and Herzegovina after the [Austro-Hungarian, translator’s note] Occupation; before 1908. the emigration was down to a trickle; since the Annexation it has increased to its greatest scope. This is a special type of migration. In

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The Pomor of Serb POWs and Civilians in Austro-Hungarian camps during WWI 1914-1918, SUMMED NUMBERS

Original research paper by Mirčeta Vemić, Institute of Geography “Jovan Cvijić”, Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences: http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0352-5732/2014/0352-57321447201V.pdf UDC 94(100)”1914/1918″ UDC 343.819.5(=163.41)(493.5)”1914/1918″ DOI: 10.2298/ZMSDN1447201V COLLECTED DATA ON AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR SERBS The system of the great number of camps which existed on the territory of Central Powers during the First World War has not

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The Pomor of Serb POWs and Civilians in Austro-Hungarian camps during WWI 1914-1918, LITERATURE

Архив Војске Србије (1915). Војска Краљевине Србије, Кутија 12, Фасцикла 2, док бр. 22. Српски заробљеници у логору Хајнрихсгрин (1–28). Архив Војске Србије (1916). Пописник бр. 5, К–400А, Ф–3, док. бр. 1–11. Број заточеника по логорима за 1916. годину. Архив Југославије (1921а). Војна гробља, Фонд 63, Фасцикла 231. Ситуациона скица гробља заробљеника логора у Јиндриховицама.

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A composite black and white image. The left half is a black and white photograph, showing workers digging up graves from the WWI Braunau (today Broumov, Czechia) concentration camp in WWI. The right half is a black and white photograph showing how the exhumed bones were stored in boxes that were laid to rest in an ossuary.

The Pomor of Serb POWs and Civilians in Austro-Hungarian camps during WWI 1914-1918, BRAUNAU

Original research paper by Mirčeta Vemić, Institute of Geography “Jovan Cvijić”, Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences: http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0352-5732/2014/0352-57321447201V.pdf UDC 94(100)”1914/1918″ UDC 343.819.5(=163.41)(493.5)”1914/1918″ DOI: 10.2298/ZMSDN1447201V CONCENTRATION CAMP BRAUNAU (CZECH – BROUMOV) (K. u. k. Kriegsgefangenenlager Braunau) 35 000 internees, 2674 Serb grave sites Concentration Camp Braunau (Czech – Broumov) or the “Imperial and Royal Camp for

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A black and white photograph showing the Heinrichgruen camp from WWI. It is today Jindrihovice in Czechia.

The Pomor of Serb POWs and Civilians in Austro-Hungarian camps during WWI 1914-1918, HEINRICHSGRÜN

Original research paper by Mirčeta Vemić, Institute of Geography “Jovan Cvijić”, Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences: http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0352-5732/2014/0352-57321447201V.pdf UDC 94(100)”1914/1918″ UDC 343.819.5(=163.41)(493.5)”1914/1918″ DOI: 10.2298/ZMSDN1447201V Translated by Books of Jeremiah CONCENTRATION CAMP HEINRICHSGRÜN (Czech: JINDŘIHOVICE) (K. u. k. Kriegsgefangenenlager Heinrichsgrün) 66.000 internees, 4.306 victims, 2.573 grave sites for Serbs Concentration camp Heinrichsgrün, or “Imperial and Royal

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