 As a result, its current Serb population, as registered by the 2013 census, numbers 4,421 or about 4.2% of the population of the town.In the 18th and 19th centuries, many Serbs from Mostar were merchants and traders.They formed business communities in Vienna, Trieste, Novi Sad, in the Republic of Venice, as well as in the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik), Zara (Zadar) and other towns ("See