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The paper presents biographical data on Nićifor Perić, Metropolitan of Raška-Prizren and Skenderija. It analyzes his role of a religious leader, who also had jurisdiction in the marital and partly hereditary law. A special focus is put on his work concerning the establishment of important church institutions and funds. The paper explains his relationship towards education and one part focuses on the issue of the monastery of Visoki Dečani, especially when the foundation of the Committee for debt settlement and stay of Russian monks there is concerned. The paper also explains the nature of the Metropolitan’s misunderstandings both with the Ottoman authorities and the authorities of the Kingdom of Serbia, because he did not yield in his firm attitude concerning the preservation of church privileges, including the authority over schools. Another focus is on the relationship of the Great Church (Ecumenical Patriarchate) with Metropolitan Nićifor and the events that took place during his rule in the Raška-Prizren and Skenderija Metropolitanate.

The paper focuses on the historiographical work of Simeon Piščević (1731–1797) History of Serbian People (Istorija srpskog naroda) written in Russia at the end of the 18th century. Simeon Piščević was a Serb who started serving military in the Austrian army during the War of the Austrian Succession and then went to the Russian army, where he got as far as to the rank of general. Miloš Crnjanski partly based the main character of his novel Migrations (Seobe) on this person. The first part of the paper focuses on the history of his manuscript, which remained unknown until the end of the 19th century, while the second part presents the structure of this work, the sources on which the author relied and the methods that Piščević applied as a historian.

There are various doubts and ambiguities regarding the dispatch of the memorandum by the Government of the Independent State of Croatia (ISC) to the Western Allies asking for military intervention in early May 1945, giving rise to different interpretations in historiography. These varying interpretations are related to the circumstances of the dispatch of the memorandum, its text, the actions of prominent representatives of the Ustasha government, relations between the new Yugoslav authorities and Western allies, especially the British and the role of Archbishop Stepinac and the Holy See in the ISC. In order to understand the memorandum, it is necessary to consider the most important political and military circumstances at the end of World War II in Yugoslavia, especially the politics of the new Yugoslavia and the Western powers, primarily the British. The representatives of the Holy See in the ISC and the Archbishop of Zagreb, Alojzije Stepinac, played an important role in efforts to preserve the Ustasha state. This paper was written based on unpublished and published archival sources and relevant historiographical literature.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of two important factors in the process of the constitutional organization of Serbia and Romania during the 19th century: the external factors and internal socio-political circumstances. Therefore, the constitutional models, modes and types of implementation are an important part of this work. Using analytical and comparative methods, I will discuss the similarities and differences in the processes of constitutionalization in one part of the Balkans region.

Since 1969 Serbia has been conducting the programme of eradication louse-borne typhus. To this effect of Law on the eradication of communicable diseases has been passed. In addition to Republic Commission, as well as 6 regional commissions, and 18 communal commissions in whose territory the disease is being eradicated, have been formed. The operations consist of four phases: preparatory attack, consolidation and final phase. The methods and measures applied under the programme include the measures concerned with the control of vectors, i.e. lousiness, measures to detect the source of infection, respectively patients with louse-borne typhus and Brill-Zinsser disease. The control of louseiness effected through the impregnation of underwears and bed linens by means of syntheic insecticides (DDT, Maltox), as well as through health education activities, has yielded good results, so that the highest rate of lousiness: 9.08% (Sjenica, Tutin 4.37%), was reduced to less than 1% in 1972. To detect the source of infection, both active and pasiive investigation has been carried out. Active investigation included regular control of the health state through thermometry applied to registered households with lice. Passive investigation is carried out trough out -patient units and residential services which take care of all febrile patients coming from endemic areas. The results obtained from the three-year operations indicate that the percentage of dected patients with Brill-Zinsser amounts to 0--4--3.9%, as well as that it is still lagging behind with respect to the immunity acquired through previous affections in the endemic areas. The distribution of detected patients with Brill-Zinsser especially indicates that a small number of patients from endemic ares has been detected. The paper presents the criteria for the evaluation of results, making a proposal that a professional body should be formed at the federal level to coordinate the methods and programmes of operations. In addition that body's task would be to expand the operations to all endemic areas in the country.