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Poličnik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poličnik) and Ljubač (https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubač_(Ražanac)) near Zadar were full Orthodox Serb villages until 1696. when the bishop of Nin Juraj Parčić converted these village to Catholicism.
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Poličnik is known as the strongest ustashian stronghold in Ravni Kotari, and maybe even in whole northern Dalmatia. Croatians from Poličnik have identical traditional costumes as Serbs from Ravni Kotari and Bukovica.
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Serbs and Croats are two tribes of the same nation, separated by religion and culture to a lesser extent. Montengrins are a NATO-backed "ethnicity" split from Serbs in the last 30 years. Bosniaks are also a tribe of this nation, but more different culturally because of Islam. Slovenians are very close relatives, to the same level as Russians and Ukrainians... You can argue they are the same nation also
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NW Kajkavian Croats have nothing in common with Serbs, neither by language, common history, tradition, neither by genetics.
In fact they are autosomaly closer to Czechs and Slovaks than to us.
Same goes to Slovenians.
Štokavian and čakavian Croats are bit closer, but there are still differences.
Montenegrins are indeed of Serbian origin, and big part of Bosnian Muslims too, but difference toward Muslims are too high, and there is no possibility to we ever be common with them.
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Lol, I really don't know where you read these nonsenses, but it is totally wrong.
In the fact, Croats and Serbs were different groups in their ancestral homelands before they came to Balkans. Croats lived in today Ruthenia and Southern Poland and Serbs lived more north-western in today eastern Germany where Lužica Sorbs still live. It was even before appearance of Christianity, especially its variants.
Byzantine emperor Konstantin Porfirogenet wrote a book "De Administrando Imperio" in which he described migrations of Serbs and Croats to Balkans and listed regions which they have settled. I say different groups because nations in modern sense didn't exist prior French Revolution, of course.
Later some Serbs escaped from deep Balkan peninsula to Croatian lands because of Turkish conquests and they were very different people to local Croats in any sense.
Our languages are quite similar, although it was also a result of work of both Croatian and Serbian linguists in recent times, like Vuk Karadžić, Ljudevit Gaj, Pero Budmani, Đuro Daničić, Tomo Maretić etc. Prior these reforms Croatian was more similar to its Chaikavian and Kaikavian dialects and Serbian was more similar to Bulgarian and Old Church Slavic languages.
We lived in the common state during 20th century and that's all. We can proudly say that we belong to among the oldest groups in Europe that still exist, while the other groups were assimilated to bigger nations.
NATO and Montenegro is a special bullshit. Maybe Petrović dinasty was appointed by NATO, lol.
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You can hate each other as much as you want, but the differences between you are comparable with those between Romanian regions. There are definitely more differences between Little and Great Russians (language, culture, race) but they kept a single identity until early 1900s.
Your ethnic group, although quite homogenous, never gained a common identity due to religious/cultural reasons. You speak the same language with some accent differences, some purposefully chosen local words to inflate the differences. Looks wise, even though there is an East-West difference in pigmentation, there is still a lot more in common than there are differences. For anyone but yourselves, you are clearly one ethnic group!
So what? Your ethnicity is mostly based on locals that adopted Slavic language/culture, otherwise you would have looked like the East Slavs (which hardly is the case).In the fact, Croats and Serbs were different groups in their ancestral homelands before they came to Balkans
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