Four major groups contributed to the ethno genesis of living Serbs and Serb-derived pseudo-ethnicities: The first group who contributed to the ethnogenesis of the Serbs were the Neolithic farmers *& herdsmen who ebnetered Europe in 6000 AD. The ancestors of all living Serbs built the very first communities that Europe had ever known.

The second group, that contributed to the ethnogenesis of the Serbs were the proto-Dinaric Bell Beaker people, an offshoot of the first group of neolihic farmers, who migrated from the Near East to central Europe during the Mesolithic Era 13 000 years ago. Many of them spread to other parts of Europe but most of these people migrated to the Western Balkans, where they evolved into Neolithic farming communities.

The third group that contributed to the ethnogenesis of the Serbs was the Hallstatt Illyrians who migrated from Lower Austria during the Bronze Age in 2000 BC. When they arrived in the Balkans, the Illyrians mixed with the previous inhabitants, who assimilated the Illyrian culture & ethno-tribal identity. By 500 BC, six major Illyrian groups developed out this hybridized population.

The fourth group that contributed to the ethnogenesis of the Serbs was Roman soldiers from Northern Italy who often settled in lands in which they completed their military service after attaining Roman citizenship. The Romans massacred 150 000 Illyrians in northern & central Albania. They also Romanized the Illyrians by imposing the Latin language as the lingua franca & Roman administration & identity on the Illyrians after 9 AD.

The fifth group that contributed to the ethnogenesis of the Serbs was the Slavs. Slavic tribes had settled on the north bank of the Sava & Danube Rivers by 550 AD. From here they besieged the Romanized Illyrians, causing a southward migration of Romanized Pannonian Illyrians deeper south into Bosnia & Dalmatia and the Asiatic Dardanians into previously depopulated Central Albania. By 620 AD, the Slavs, aided by the Avars, had settled eastern Dardania & the Pelloponnese.

An additional contemporaneous invasion went through Austria settling Istra, Northern Italy, Dalmatia, Montenegro & Northern Albania. Leading of this invasion, were the Serboi, who arrived in the Western Balkans in 620 AD from Eastern Germany, Western Ukraine & Southern Poland and settled lands already inhabited by the Romanized Pannonian & Dalmatian Illyrians. The Serboi mixed with the Romanized Pannonian & Dalmatian Illyrians, who assimilated the Serb language & ethno-tribal identity.

The sections below explain the migrations, the ethnic affiliation and the physical type of each of these groups who contributed to the ethnogenesis of contemporary Orthodox Serbs and Serb-derived pseudo-ethnicities of the so-called stokavian sub-division of what was once called the 'Serbo-Croatian language' - regardless of religious affiliation.

The material used in these sections is research by top contemporary international scholars in the fields of Physical & Cultural Anthropology & History, as well as the writings of ancient geographers.

This is also the only theory of ethnogenesis I know of to incorporate the latest genetic studies & the fossil record. Thus, the theory outlined in these is pages is unique & more credible than others that don't incorporate the sciences in their theory.