Serbian nationalism
（重定向自Serbdom）
![The white double-headed eagle of the Nemanjić dynasty of Serbia of the 12th to 14th centuries, the basis of the Serbian eagle.](/Images/godic/202502/10/Orlovi3316.jpg")
![Monument to Karađorđe in Belgrade. Karađorđe led the Serbian Revolution that sought to liberate Serbia from rule by the Ottoman Empire.](/Images/godic/202502/10/Statue_of_Karadjordje_in_Belgrade3316.jpg")
![Portrait of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, the founder of Serbian nationalism.](/Images/godic/202502/10/Vuk_Karadzic_Kriehuber_cropped3316.jpg")
![Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia (1989–1997), President of FR Yugoslavia (1997–2000).](/Images/godic/202502/10/Slobodan_Milosevic3316.jpg")
Serbian nationalism asserts that Serbs are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of Serbs. It is an ethnic nationalism, originally arising in the context of the general rise of nationalism in the Balkans under Ottoman rule, under the influence of Serbian linguist Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and Ilija Garašanin. Serbian nationalism was an important factor during the Balkan Wars which contributed to the decline of the Ottoman Empire, during World War I, and again during the breakup of Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s.