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Serb People's Party was an ethnic Serb

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...

(Croatian Serb

Serbs of Croatia

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) political party in the Kingdom of Dalmatia

Kingdom of Dalmatia

The Kingdom of Dalmatia was an administrative division of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1815 to 1918. Its capital was Zadar.-History:...

during the time of Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary

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.

Following the Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1876

Dalmatian parliamentary election, 1876

Parliamentary elections were held in the Kingdom of Dalmatia in 1876. The People's Party won with a record-largest majority of 30 seats in the 41 seat assembly. During the course of the government's mandate, Serb members of the People's Party formed their own Serb Party.-Results:...

, the People's Party

People's Party (Kingdom of Dalmatia)

People's Party was a political party in the Kingdom of Dalmatia. It was founded in 1861 after the failure of Bach's absolutism, as branch of the People's Party in Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia...

was in power. In 1878, led by Sava Bjelanović

Sava Bjelanovic

Sava Bjelanović was an Adriatic Serbian writer and politician, the leader of the coastal Serb Party and the most prominent Dalmatian Serb of the 19th century....

, the Serb members of the party left and founded the Serb Party. The Serb Party retained the leading position in the provinces of upper Dalmatia (Dalmatian hinterland): Kninska Krajina

Kninska Krajina

Kninska Krajina is a geographical region in Croatia. It is located around the town of Knin in northern Dalmatia.-Geography:Kninska Krajina is situated between Bukovica in the southwest, Lika in the northwest, Drniška krajina in the south, Cetinska krajina in the southwest, and Bosnia and...

, Bukovica

Bukovica

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, Ravni Kotari

Ravni Kotari

Ravni Kotari is a geographical region in Croatia. It is situated in northern Dalmatia, around Zadar. It is bordered by Bukovica to the northwest, lower Krka on the southeast and the Adriatic Sea. The biggest settlement of the region is the town of Benkovac...

, as well as the Bay of Kotor

Bay of Kotor

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(which is today in Montenegro

Montenegro

Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...

).

A significant member of the Serb Party was Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša

Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša

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. In his political efforts, he fought against the ethnic Italian domination in Dalmatian politics and culture, for the equality of religions and languages, for the emancipation of Serb populace in Dalmatia, the economic benefit of the province but also for the autonomy of Dalmatia and against the unification with Croatia-Slavonia. Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša had been the President of the Dalmatian parliament between 1870 and 1878 when he was overthrown by the clerical Croat fraction in the People's Party led by Mihovil Pavlinović.

The party issued the Srpski List (1880-1904).

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