Serbs in South America

Country	Population
Argentina	~5,000
Venezuela	<1,000

There are several Serb communities in South America , notably in Argentina and Venezuela. ^[1] Those comunities are conisted mostly of people with partial and distant Serb ancestry i.e. third- or fourth-generation of immigrants.

Notable people

• Miguel Avramovic (born 1981), Argentinian footballer, paternal Serb descent ^[2]
• Gastón Bojanich (born 1985), Argentinian footballer
• Marcelo Burzac (born 1988), Argentinian footballer ^[3]
• Jorge Capitanich (born 1964), Argentinian politician ^[4]
• Gloria Ana Chevesich (born 1958), Chilean judge, paternal Serb descent
• Eleodoro Damianovich (1843–1925), Argentine doctor
• Andrea Jeftanovic (born 1970), Chilean sociologist and author, paternal Serb descent
• Blagoje Jovović (1922–1999), Chetnik guerilla fighter
• Sergio Mihanovich (1937–2012), Argentine jazz musician, maternal Serb descent ^[5]
• Emilio Ogñénovich (1923–2011), Catholic archbishop of Mercedes-Luján, Argentine, paternal Serb descent
• Claudia Pavlovich Arellano (born 1969), Chilean politician, paternal Serb descent
• Miguel Socolovich (born 1986), Venezuelan baseball player ^[6]
• Milan Stojadinović (1888–1961), Serbian politician
• Lyanco (born 1997), Brazilian footballer, paternal Serb descent ^[7]
• Miloš Vukasović/Miguel Vucassovich (1842–1908), shipbuilder
• Paola Vukojicic (born 1974), Argentine field hockey player
• Geraldine Zivic (born 1975), Argentine-born Colombian actress, paternal Serb descent

See also

• Serbian Argentines
• Serbian Venezuelans
• Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Buenos Aires and South America

References

1. "Serbios Unidos | Inmigrantes Serbios en America Latina". 26 January 2012. Archived from the original on 26 January 2012. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
2. "BONJOUR MIGUEL AVRAMOVIC". Ohlala Mag. 14 June 2009.
3. Mozzart Sport 2013.
4. "Metropolitan Amfilohije meets with Jorge Capitanich, Governor of the province of Chaco". SPC.
5. «Cuando el amor era todo lo que teníamos. Sergio Mihanovich fue una figura fundamental del jazz argentino», artículo de Diego Fischerman en el diario Página/12 (Buenos Aires) del 8 de mayo de 2012.
6. "Son of a Falcon". VZBaseball. 22 July 2015.
7. "Fuga de avô da Iugoslávia e "não" a rival: assim beque parou no São Paulo". Globoesporte.

Sources

• Mozzart Sport (26 April 2013). "SRPSKI SINOVI: Orlovi iz Južne Amerike (VIDEO)". Mozzart Sport.

Further reading

• Vuković, Sava (1998). History of the Serbian Orthodox Church in America and Canada 1891–1941. Kragujevac: Kalenić.
• Serbios Unidos. "Inmigrantes Serbios en America Latina". Serbios Unidos.
• Bilbija, Bojan (29 December 2013), Dijaspora može da promeni Srbiju, Politika, procenjeno brojno stanje u januaru 2012 [estimation in January 2012]

External links

• "Iglesia Ortodoxa Serbia". www.diocesisargentina.org (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 7 May 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
• "Serbia y Montenegrina". www.buenosaires.gob.ar (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 18 May 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2023.