ABSTRACT
The Chetnik movement was founded on the ideology of an expansionist Serbia, a common state for the Serbian people. The originator of the expansionist-Serbia idea was the Serbian statesman Ilija Garašanin, author of Načertanije published in 1844. This idea was revived at the end of the First World War in the form of the Yugoslav centralistic Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. This state, for the first time, gathered together these ethnically related peoples, who for several previous centuries had lived in separate, larger, state systems.
