Banatska Crna Gora

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Banatska Crna Gora (Serbian Cyrillic : Банатска Црна Гора, meaning "Black Mountain of Banat") is a historical region between Timișoara and Lugoj in western Romania.

The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet is an adaptation of the Cyrillic script for the Serbian language, developed in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin, the other being Latin.

Timișoara County Seat in Timiș, Romania

Timișoara is the capital city of Timiș County, the 3rd largest city in Romania and the main social, economic and cultural centre in western Romania.

Lugoj Municipality in Timiș, Romania

Lugoj is a city in Timiș County, Banat, western Romania. The Timiș River divides the city into two halves, the so-called Romanian Lugoj that spreads on the right bank and the German Lugoj on the left bank. It is the seat of the Eparchy of Lugoj in the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic. The city administers two villages, Măguri and Tapia.

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History

"Banatska Crna Gora" is the native Serbian name for the region. [1] Radič, the Serbian magnate, received possessions in Banatska Crna Gora. [2]

Population

The region is inhabited by Eastern Orthodox Serbs (see Serbs in Romania ). [3] They speak a dialect of the Serbian language. [4] Pavle Ivić (1924–1999) studied their speech.

Serbs Ethnic group

The Serbs are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group that formed in the Balkans. The majority of Serbs inhabit the nation state of Serbia as well as in the disputed Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Montenegro. They form significant minorities in North Macedonia and Slovenia. There is a large Serb diaspora in Western Europe, and outside Europe there are significant communities in North America and Australia.

Serbian language South Slavic language

Serbian is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs. It is the official language of Serbia, the territory of Kosovo, and one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition, it is a recognized minority language in Montenegro where it is spoken by the relative majority of the population, as well as in Croatia, North Macedonia, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.

Pavle Ivić Serbian linguist

Pavle Ivić was a Serbian South Slavic dialectologist and phonologist.

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References

  1. Serbian Studies. North American Society for Serbian Studies. 1995. Established in 1199, Srpska Canda became a predominantly Serbian town by 1647. Brought into existence in 1421, Bosna was renamed Bosnjak in 1717 and then Moldava Noua sometime before 1378. Banatska Crna Gora is the indigenous ...
  2. Ljubivoje Cerović (1997). "Srbi u Rumuniji od ranog srednjeg veka do današnjeg vremena". Srpsko plemstvo u Banatu i Krišani.
  3. Branko Tošović (January 2010). Korrelative Grammatik des Bosni(aki)schen, Kroatischen und Serbischen: Dio 1. Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie. LIT Verlag Münster. pp. 152–. ISBN   978-3-643-50100-4.
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