Serbia National Anthem
Боже правде
Boze pravde
God of Justice
1872
2006
Jovan Đorđević
Davorin Jenko
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Key Facts
- 1. The anthem is written as a prayer, opening with an appeal to the 'God of justice'.
- 2. It was first performed in 1872 in Đorđević's play Markova sablja, set to music by Davorin Jenko, a Slovene composer then working in Belgrade.
- 3. The official text replaces the royalist lines of the version sung after Serbia became a kingdom in 1882 (the 1872 original hailed a prince): 'the Serbian king' became 'the Serbian lands', 'the Serbian crown' became 'Serbian glory', and 'the Serbian Kingdom' became 'the Serbian fatherland'.
- 4. It has been used again since 2004, was named the national anthem in the 2006 Constitution and was confirmed by an act of the National Assembly in 2009.
Serbia National Anthem Lyrics
Боже правде, ти што спасе
од пропасти досад нас,
чуј и одсад наше гласе
и од сад нам буди спас.
Моћном руком води, брани
будућности српске брод,
Боже спаси, Боже храни,
српске земље, српски род!
Сложи српску браћу драгу
на свак дичан славан рад,
слога биће пораз врагу
а најјачи српству град.
Нек на српској блиста грани
братске слоге златан плод,
Боже спаси, Боже храни
српске земље, српски род!
Нек на српско ведро чело
твог не падне гнева гром
Благослови Србу село
поље, њиву, град и дом!
Кад наступе борбе дани
к' победи му води ход
Боже спаси, Боже храни
српске земље, српски род!
Из мрачнога сину гроба
српске славе нови сјај
настало је ново доба
Нову срећу, Боже дај!
Отаџбину српску брани
пет вековне борбе плод
Боже спаси, Боже брани
моли ти се српски род!
Translations are non-official and intended to convey meaning, not replace originals
Analysis
EditorialBože pravde was written in 1872 by Jovan Đorđević, with music by the Slovene composer Davorin Jenko, and became the anthem of the Principality and later the Kingdom of Serbia. From 1918 it formed part of the composite anthem of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later Yugoslavia, and it fell out of official use when that kingdom collapsed in 1941. Serbia began using it again in 2004, the 2006 Constitution named it the national anthem, and the National Assembly adopted it by law in 2009 in a revised text without the monarchist references of the earlier versions.
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Sources & References
- Национални симболи: химна . Председник Републике Србије
- Боже правде . sr.wikipedia.org
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