Serbs

Overseas

Serbs are the South Slavic ethnic group and nation, native to the Balkans in Southeastern Europe.

The majority of Serbs live in their nation state of Serbia, as alive as in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Kosovo. They also gain significant minorities in North Macedonia and Slovenia. There is a large Serb diaspora in Western Europe, and external Europe and there are significant communities in North America and Australia.

The Serbs share numerous cultural traits with the rest of the peoples of Southeast Europe. They are predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christians by religion. The Serbian language is official in Serbia, co-official in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is spoken by the plurality in Montenegro.

Genetic origins

According to a triple analysis – autosomal, mitochondrial and paternal — of usable data from large-scale studies on Balto-Slavs and their proximal populations, the whole genome SNP data situates Serbs with Montenegrins in between two Balkan clusters. Y-DNA results show that haplogroups I2a and R1a together stand for the majority of the makeup, with more than 53 percent. The aforementioned Serbian Y-chromosomes belong to lineages believed to be pre-Neolithic. such significant levels are possibly the result of Neolithic migrations encroaching on Paleolithic populations against the Adriatic Sea.

According to several recent studies Serbia's people are among the tallest in the world, after Montenegro and the Netherlands, with an average male height of 1.82 metres 6 ft 0 in.