Serbs of Slovakia
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The Association of Serbs in Slovakia claim that 2,784 Serbs, born outside Slovakia, currently live in Slovakia, while another 800 Slovaks are of Serb descent. However, at the 2011 census, only 698 people claimed the Serbian ethnicity. Partially descent of Serb origin coming from marriage mostly from Serbian men and Slovakian women.
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Serbs in Bratislava
Already in the 19th century, the importance of the university in Požun began to attract a different layer of Serbs, the Serbian youth who studied there in the absence of Serbian higher education institutions in what was then southern Hungary. In 1866, there was a Serbian youth association "Sloboda" in what was then Požun, which was part of the wider "United Youth of Srpska". Its "Library of Serbian Youth" was founded in 1841, and its destiny is tied to the Lyceum of Požun. That library was closed since the time of the Hungarian revolt, because the work died down. It revived again only around 1860, and continued its activities.
Notable people
- Branko Radivojevič, Slovak ice hockey player of Serb parentage
- Marko Milinković, Serbian expatriate football player
- Slaven Dizdarević, Slovak Serb decathlete.
- Gavril Stefanović Venclović, Serb priest, writer, poet, orator, philosopher, and illuminator.
- Pavle Davidović, Serb general, Knight of the Military Order of Maria Theresa.