`  == response == Yes, Serbs DO have a 2000 year long history. Their history in the Balkans is indeed some 1400 years long but that is not when this nation was first mentioned nor formed.  Tacitus (ca. 50 AD): described the Serboi tribe near the Caucasus.  Pliny (69-75 AD): ``... beside the Cimerians live Meotics, Valians, Serbs (Serboi), Zingians, Psesians.`` (Historia naturalis, VI, c. 7 & 19 Leipzig 1975).  Ptolemy (150 AD): `` ... between the Keraunian mountains and the river Pa, live the Orineians, Valians and Serbs.`` (Geographia V, s. 9). Ptolemy also mention the city in Pannonia named Serbinum (present day Bosanska Gradiška in Republika Srpska).  In the third century Roman emperor Licinius referred to the Carpathians as 'Montes Serrorum' (``Serb mountains``). It is accepted among most scientists that Serbs as well as Croats are of Iranian origin since the evidences that mention these two people are located in Iran, Afghanistan, Caucausus and Southern Russia. NeroN BG`