Political and social rivalries in nineteenth-century Serbia: vabe or Nema kari

The nature of the relationship between the Serbs from Serbia and the Serbs from the Habsburg Monarchy in the nineteenth century is important for understand-ing the process of national development of the Serbian people as a whole. Therefore the paper analyzes the controversy over vabe or Nema kari, as the Serbs from Austria were called, which was one of the factors responsible for internal instability of the Principality of Serbia in the nineteenth century.