Det er en udbredt opfattelse i Serbien, at de serbiske indbyggere i det nordlige og østlige Bosnien og i det nordlige Kosovo med urette administrativt er blevet afskåret fra moderlandet.
When in 1918, Hungary was treated as being on the losing side in the First World War, it had to relinquish not only areas mainly populated by other nations, but also essentially Hungarian areas such as the northern part of Vojvodina.