Serbinization

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noun

the act or process of making Serbian.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

nounSerbinization (uncountable)
  1. uncountablethe act or process of making Serbian.

    Albanians in Yugoslavia were subject to policies of deliberate assimilation and Serbinization.

    1984, Frederick L. Shiels, Ethnic Separatism and World Politics, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, →ISBN
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    But the advent of Milosevic in 1987, his strong nationalist stance and drive for systematic Serbinization, the collapse of the Serbian Communist Party, which was turned into Serbian Socialist Party, made things more tensed and worser,

    1992, Tun Thwin, Civil wars in Yugoslavia and Burma

    The Serbs from Belgrade argued that the colonization had injected artificially Croatian influence, while the Croats complained of Serbinization, as the colonists originated mainly from the Krajina.

    2009, Robert Stallaerts, Historical Dictionary of Croatia, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 28

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