Serbian Cultural Society "Prosvjeta" (abbreviated: SKD "Prosvjeta" or СКД "Просвјета") is the central cultural, educational and scientific institution of the Serbs

Serbs

The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...

 in Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

, with the aim of preserving and developing national identity.

Prosvjeta is managed by principles of multiculturalism

Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism is the appreciation, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures, applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g...

 and interculturalism

Interculturalism

Interculturalism is the philosophy of exchanges between cultural groups within a society, as used by nationalists of the Canadian province of Quebec. Quebeckers have historically been sensitive to any perceived degradation of their heritage...

, and their own cultural awareness. In accordance with their understanding of national identity of Serbs in Croatia, Prosvjeta affirms its value in two ways: as part of Croatian culture and as part of the Serbian people culture as a whole.

Subcommittees

Prosvjeta has sub-committees in the following settlements in Croatia

• Beli Manastir
  Beli Manastir
  Beli Manastir is a town and municipality in eastern Croatia, the principal town of the Croatian part of Baranja, in the Osijek-Baranja county.-Name:...
  
  
• Bijelo Brdo
• Biskupija
  Biskupija
  Biskupija is a village and a municipality in Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia.The municipality covers a karst field called Kosovo polje located between the mountains of Promina and Veliki Kozjak...
  
  
• Bobota, Croatia
  Bobota, Croatia
  Bobota is a village in the municipality of Trpinja in Vukovar-Syrmia County, Croatia. The population is 1,540.-See also:*Bobota Canal-References:...
  
  
• Borovo, Croatia
  Borovo, Croatia
  Borovo , previously called Borovo Selo , is a village and an eponymous municipality in Vukovar-Syrmia County in eastern Croatia. It is located on the Danube across the border with Serbia, and has a population of 5,133 , with 86.56% of the population of Serb ethnicity...
  
  
• Bršadin
  Bršadin
  Bršadin is a village in eastern Croatia located on the D55 highway between Vukovar and Vinkovci....
  
  
• Bujština
• Dalj
  Dalj
  Dalj is a village on the Danube in eastern Croatia, near the confluence of the Drava and Danube, on the border with Serbia. It is connected with the D519 highway and administratively located in the municipality of Erdut, Osijek-Baranja County.-References:...
  
  
• Darda
  Darda, Croatia
  Darda is a village and a municipality just north of Osijek, Croatia, across the Drava river in Baranja. The population is 7,062 people.-Geography:The municipality of Darda includes following settlements:...
  
  
• Daruvar
  Daruvar
  Daruvar is a town in central Croatia, population 9,815 , total municipality population 13,243 ....
  
  
• Donje Dubrave
  Donje Dubrave
  Donje Dubrave is a village in Karlovac County, Croatia. It is located in the municipality of Ogulin on the old Josephine Road connecting Duga Resa and Senj. The Rijeka-Zagreb railway passes through the village. It has 250 inhabitants, most of them working on the railway in the nearby cities of...
  
  
• Donji Lapac
  Donji Lapac
  Donji Lapac is a small town and municipality in Lika, Croatia. The majority of the population are Serbs.-Geography:Donji Lapac is located a region of eastern Lika called Ličko Pounje, by the river Una that flows near the town in the valley between mountain Plješevica and Una on the altitude of 582m...
  
  
• Dvor
  Dvor
  Dvor is a town and a municipality in the Banovina region in central Croatia. Administratively it belongs to the Sisak-Moslavina County and is located across the Una River from Novi Grad in Bosnia and Herzegovina....
  
  

• Glina
  Glina, Croatia
  Glina is a small town in central Croatia, located southwest of Petrinja and Sisak in the Sisak-Moslavina county. It lies on the eponymous river of Glina.-History:...
  
  
• Gomirje
• Jagodnjak
  Jagodnjak
  Jagodnjak is a village and a municipality in the Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia. Jagodnjak development index is less than 50% of the Croatian average, which classifies them into 10% of the poorest municipalities...
  
  
• Karlovac
  Karlovac
  Karlovac is a city and municipality in central Croatia. The city proper has a population of 49,082, while the municipality has a population of 59,395 inhabitants .Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County...
  
  
• Kistanje
  Kistanje
  Kistanje is a village and municipality in Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia. According to the 2001 census, Kistanje municipality has 3,038 inhabitants of which 57.14% are Serbs and 41.31% are Croats.-History:...
  
  
• Kneževi Vinogradi
  Kneževi Vinogradi
  Kneževi Vinogradi is a village and municipality in Croatia. It is situated in the Osijek-Baranja County, on the southern slopes of Bansko Brdo, 11 km southeast of Beli Manastir. Its elevation is 103 m...
  
  
• Knin
  Knin
  Knin is a historical town in the Šibenik-Knin county of Croatia, located near the source of the river Krka at , in the Dalmatian hinterland, on the railroad Zagreb–Split. Knin rose to prominence twice in history, as a one-time capital of both the Kingdom of Croatia and briefly of the...
  
  
• Krnjak
  Krnjak
  Krnjak is a village and a municipality in Karlovac County, Croatia. There are a total of 2,164 inhabitants in the municipality , 61.5% which are Serbs and 35.4% which are Croats. By mother tongue there are 2,125 Croatian speakers, 15 Serbian speakers and 23 speakers of other languages...
  
  
• Korenica
  Korenica
  Korenica is a village in Lika, Croatia, located in the municipality of Plitvička Jezera, on the road between Plitvice and Udbina. It has 1,570 residents .In SFR Yugoslavia it was named Titova Korenica after Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito...
  
  
• Mali Gradac
  Mali Gradac
  Mali Gradac is a village in Croatia....
  
  
• Markušica
  Markušica
  Markušica is a village and a municipality in Vukovar-Syrmia County, Croatia. There are 3,053 inhabitants, the majority of the population which are Serbs, who make up 90.76% of the population according to the 2001 population census...
  
  
• Mirkovci
  Mirkovci
  Mirkovci is a village and the suburb of town Vinkovci, in eastern Croatia. It is in the Syrmia region, located immediately southeast of Vinkovci. The Vinkovci-Gunja railway separates it from the rest of the city...
  
  

• Moslavina
  Moslavina
  Moslavina is a microregion in Croatia, administratively divided into the counties of Zagreb, Sisak-Moslavina and Bjelovar-Bilogora. The main city in the region in terms of traffic, commerce and business is the city of Kutina , with 24,000 citizens. Other important centres are Ivanić grad , Čazma,...
  
   Garešnica
  Garešnica
  Garešnica is a town and municipality in Bjelovar-Bilogora County, Croatia. It is part of Moslavina. There are a total of 10,466 inhabitants . , 82% of the inhabitants are Croats....
  
  
• Negoslavci
  Negoslavci
  Negoslavci is a village and a municipality in Vukovar-Syrmia County, Croatia. There are 1,466 inhabitants, the majority of the population which are Serbs, making up 96.58% of the population according to the 2001 population census...
  
  
• Okučani
  Okucani
  Okučani is a village in western Slavonia, Croatia. It is located at the contact point between the Posavina plain and the southern slopes of Psunj; 19 km southeast of Novska and 17 km west of Nova Gradiška; elevation 119 m. Chief occupations are farming, livestock breeding, fishing and...
  
  -Rajić
• Ogulin
  Ogulin
  Ogulin is a town in north-western Croatia, in Karlovac County. It has a population of 8,712 , and a total municipal population of 15,054...
  
  
• Osijek
  Osijek
  Osijek is the fourth largest city in Croatia with a population of 83,496 in 2011. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja county...
  
  
• Ostrovo
• Pačetin
  Pačetin
  Pačetin is a village in the municipality of Trpinja, Vukovar-Srijem County, easternmost Croatia. The population is 548 .It is located between Vukovar and Vinkovci.-Population:-References:...
  
  
• Petrinja
  Petrinja
  Petrinja is a city in central Croatia near Sisak in the historic region of Banovina. The city belongs to Sisak-Moslavina County .- History :The name of Petrinja has its roots in Latin petrus, meaning "stone"...
  
  
• Plaški
  Plaški
  Plaški is a village and a municipality in Karlovac County, Croatia. It is part of Lika.- Geography :Plaški is situated in the lower part of the Ogulin-Plaški valley. Together with Gorski kotar and Lika, the Ogulin-Plaški valley forms Mountainous Croatia...
  
  
• Sisak
  Sisak
  Sisak is a city in central Croatia. The city's population in 2011 was 33,049, with a total of 49,699 in the administrative region and it is also the administrative centre of the Sisak-Moslavina county...
  
  
• Srpske Moravice
• Rijeka
  Rijeka
  Rijeka is the principal seaport and the third largest city in Croatia . It is located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and has a population of 128,735 inhabitants...
  
  

• Split
• Trpinja
  Trpinja
  Trpinja is a village and municipality in the Vukovar-Syrmia County in eastern Croatia. There are 1,537 inhabitants in village Trpinja and 5,680 inhabitants in the municipality according to the 2011 census. The majority of the population are Serbs, making up 89.29% of the population according to...
  
  
• Udbina
  Udbina
  Udbina is a village and a municipality in the Lika region of Croatia. It is an administratively part of in the Lika-Senj county.-Geography:The village is located in the large karst field called Krbava...
  
  
• Vera
• Virovitica
  Virovitica
  Virovitica is a Croatian town near the Croatian-Hungarian border. It is situated near the Drava river and belongs to the historic region of Slavonia. Virovitica has a population of 14,663, with 21,327 people in the municipality...
  
  
• Vojnić
  Vojnic
  Vojnić is a municipality in Karlovac County, Croatia. There are 5,495 inhabitants, 50% which are Serbs and 36% which are Croats. The municipality is part of Kordun.-Demography:...
  
  
• Vrbovsko
  Vrbovsko
  Vrbovsko is a town in western Croatia, situated at the far east of the mountainous region of Gorski kotar in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar county; on its 280 square kilometers area, Vrbovsko features 60 settlements and a total of 5,019 inhabitants...
  
  
• Vrginmost
• Vrhovine
  Vrhovine
  Vrhovine is a town and a municipality in Lika-Senj County, Croatia. The municipality is part of Lika.-Population/Demographics:According to 2001 census, Vrhovine had 905 inhabitants of which 55.03% were Serbs and 38.45% were Croats. The majority of the population of the municipality is elderly...
  
  
• Vukovar
  Vukovar
  Vukovar is a city in eastern Croatia, and the biggest river port in Croatia located at the confluence of the Vuka river and the Danube. Vukovar is the center of the Vukovar-Syrmia County...
  
  
• Zagreb
  Zagreb
  Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
  
  
• Zapadna Slavonija
• Žegar
  Žegar
  Žegar is a settlement in the Šentjur municipality in eastern Slovenia. It lies just off the regional road leading southeast of Šentjur towards Kozje. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja statistical region.-External links:*...