In the 19th century there was a strong cultural and political movement of "Serb-Catholics" in Dubrovnik. All notable citizens of Dubrovnik, among them the catholic pristers such as
Ivan Stojanović, considered themselves Serbs. There is a common misinterpretation that movement was sponsored and established by
Serbia. However, Serbia didn't get independency and the possibility of international agitation before 1878. Serbian cultural movement in Dubrovnik on the other side has raised in the 1820s and 1830s. There is a genuine statement on the national matter in the Dubrovnik almanac "Durbovnik - cvijet narodnoga knjizeštva" from 1851:
"I mi Srbi, neki smo iztočne crkve, neki zapadne, neki uniatske, a neki prešli smo na tursku vjeru; ništa manje svi smo Srbi, ter sastavljamo srbsko pleme, kojima god srbsko narečie jest narečie materinsko. Ima nas preko pet miliona, a živemo u Dalmaciji, u Ercegovini, u Crnojgori, u nekim predjelima gornje Albanije i Mačedonije, u Srbiji, u Slavoniji i u južnoj Ungariji [Vojvodini]."
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(lächerlicher smiley....aber kein anderer da)
