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Serbian migrations to Pannonia started much before Habsburgs, but existed in Habsburg period as well.
In 1480s there was many fight on the southern borders of Hungary and in Bosnia. The initiative was given almost equally by Serbian border guards and Turks. Despot Vuk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuk_Grgurević) stood out in particular. In autumn 1481. despot Vuk defeated Turkish army of the Smederevo commander Skender bey, and he broke into Serbia all the way to Kruševac. Serbian chronicles record how he took away a lot of people from Kruševac area. He took away over 60 000 Serbs from Kruševac area, and devastated whole area. By order of Hungarian king those Serbs moved around Timişoara. Hungarian king in general wanted to inhabit the sparsely populated southern areas, and to strengthen Serbs on that side in order to be more capable for resistance. From 1478. to 1482. in Hungary settled about 200 000 Serbs, according to one of his statements. "In the order to bind immigrant Serbs as strongly as possible and get new ones from migration, Hungarian parliament passes an act exempting Serbs from paying taxes (desetak) to the Catholic clergy."
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History of Serbs - Vladimir Ćorović (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Ćorović)
About Serbian migrations to Pannonia in Habsburg period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_...s_of_the_Serbs
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