Serbs

State · 1805–1915 CE · at its largest around 1912 CE

Serbian insurgents and the autonomous Serbian state that emerged from uprisings against Ottoman rule, beginning with Karadorde's First Serbian Uprising of 1804.

On its lands while it lasted

Serbian Revolution (1804–1835 CE): Serbian uprisings against Ottoman rule began at Orasac in 1804 under Karadorde. It produced the Principality of Serbia, whose autonomy the Ottomans formally recognised in 1830.
Josip Broz Tito (1892 CE – 1980 CE): Leader of the Yugoslav Partisans in World War II and ruler of socialist Yugoslavia from 1945 until his death, a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement.