List of Serbian neighborhoods

This is a list of historical and traditional city neighborhoods or quarters with a significant Serbian population.

Modern

Neighborhood	Location	Total population		Official			Estimation
		Population	Year	Serbs	%	Year	Serbs	%	Year
Balkan Mile[1][2]	Hernals, Vienna, Austria	~10,000	2012					~80%
Eller	Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany
East Side	Chicago, IL, United States
Eatonville	Toronto, Canada	19,131	2006	613	3.2% [3]	2006	1000-2000	5-10%
Irving Park	Chicago, IL, United States
Norwood Park	Chicago, IL, United States
Ridgewood[4]	Queens, New York City, NY, United States

Historical

• Serbian Quarter, Prizren, Kosovo

The neighborhood was attacked in an Albanian Pogrom in 2004, burning several churches and buildings. Since then the Serb population has dropped dramatically.^[5]

• Serbian Quarter, Székesfehérvár, Hungary

Serbs settled during the Ottoman-Austrian wars in the 17th century.

• Serb Street, Budapest, Hungary
• Belgrad Forest, Sarıyer, Istanbul, Turkey

After the sacking of Belgrade in the 16th century, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent settled thousands of Serbs into the wooded area of Istanbul.^[6]

• Balkan Street, Zurich, Switzerland^[7]
• Bournville, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.

A community of Serbian refugees was allowed to settle after World War I, and more refugees came after World War II.^[8]

• Logan Square, Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Goodrich–Kirtland Park, Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Most Serbs lived in the area north of Superior Ave between East 20th and 40th streets. Hamilton and St.Clair avenues were particularly dense areas of Serbian settlement.^[9]

References

1. "Introduction to Urban Geography" (PDF). University of Vienna. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-04. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
2. "The Serbian Scene in Ottakring". Diepresse.com. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
3. "Release of the 2006 Census on Language, Immigration, Citizenship, Mobility/Migration" (PDF). Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
4. "New York - Serbian Association of New York". Archived from the original on 2013-02-23. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
5. "Рaging against remaining Serbs in Prizren".
6. Jacob Watson (2011-04-01). "Getting Back to Nature in Istanbul | BootsnAll Travel Articles". Bootsnall.com. Retrieved 2012-09-26.
7. Gordan Bowker (2011-04-01). James Joyce: A New Biography. ISBN 9780374178727. Retrieved 2013-10-07.
8. "Church history and heritage". Church of the Holy Prince Lazar, Birmingham. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
9. "SERBS - The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History". Bootsnall.com. 1997-07-22. Retrieved 2012-12-28.