Names of the Serbs and Serbia

The Serbs are and have been referred to by other terms as well. Some of them are:

• Servians, medieval French and English rendering of the Serbs
• Rascians, refering to the population of medieval Serb state Rascia (the one and same people as the other tribes of Duklja, Travunija, Neretva, Zahumlje that all belong to the Serb ethnos)
• Triballians, a Thracian tribe later assimilated to the local Slavs, by Byzantine authors
• Slavs,

Misnaming

Because of a confusion of ethnicity/nationality with religious affiliation, many authors from historic times referred to and recorded Serbs by the following names:

• Vlachs; term used during the Middle Ages from Venetian and Croatian authors to denote Serbs of Orthodox Christian faith in the West Roman lands.
• by the regional names of: Bosnians, Herzegovinians and Montenegrins.