Kingdom of Serbia

Country in Southeast Europe (1882–1918)

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Kingdom of Serbia

Краљевина Србија (Serbian)
Kraljevina Srbija

1882–1918

Flag

Coat of arms

Anthem: Боже правде
Bože pravde
(English: "God of Justice")

The Kingdom of Serbia in 1914

Capital

and largest city

| Belgrade
44°48′35″N 20°27′47″E
Common languages| Serbian
Religion

| Orthodox Christianity (State Religion)[1]
Demonym(s)| Serbian, Serb
Government| Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
King|

• 1882–1889

| Milan I

• 1889–1903

| Alexander I

• 1903–1918

| Peter I
Prime Minister|

• 1882–1883 (first)

| Milan Piroćanac

• 1912–1918 (last)

| Nikola Pašić
Legislature| National Assembly
Historical era|

* New Imperialism
* World War I

• Proclamation

| 6 March 1882

• May Coup

| 10 June 1903

• Treaty of London

| 30 May 1913

• Treaty of Bucharest

| 10 August 1913

• Corfu Declaration

| 20 July 1917

• Unification of Montenegro with Serbia

| 28 November 1918

• Creation of Yugoslavia

| 21 December 1918
Currency| Serbian dinar

Preceded by | Succeeded by

|

|  | 1882:
Principality of Serbia

|

| 1918:
Kingdom of Montenegro
| 1915:
Military General Governorate of Serbia |

|

1915:
Bulgarian occupation of Serbia |
1918:
Kingdom of SHS |
Today part of|

* Serbia
* Montenegro
* North Macedonia
* Kosovo[a]

The Kingdom of Serbia[a] was a country located in the Balkans which was created when the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Milan I, was proclaimed king in 1882. Since 1817, the Principality was ruled by the Obrenović dynasty (replaced by the Karađorđević dynasty for a short time). The Principality, under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire, de facto achieved full independence when the very last Ottoman troops left Belgrade in 1867. The Congress of Berlin in 1878 recognized the formal independence of the Principality of Serbia, and in its composition Nišava, Pirot, Toplica and Vranje districts entered the South part of Serbia.

In 1882, Serbia was elevated to the status of a kingdom, maintaining a foreign policy friendly to Austria-Hungary. Between 1912 and 1913, Serbia greatly enlarged its territory through engagement in the First and Second Balkan Wars – Sandžak-Raška, Kosovo Vilayet and Vardar Macedonia were annexed. At the end of World War I in 1918 it united with Vojvodina and the Kingdom of Montenegro, and in December 1918 it merged with the newly created State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs to form the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as Kingdom of Yugoslavia) under the continued rule of the Karađorđević dynasty.

## History

[edit]

### Principality of Serbia

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Main article: Principality of Serbia

King Milan I of Serbia

The Principality of Serbia was a state in the Balkans that came into existence as a result of the Serbian revolution which lasted between 1804 and 1817. Despite brutal oppression and retaliation by the Ottoman authorities, the revolutionary leaders, first Karađorđe and then Miloš Obrenović, succeeded in their goal to liberate Serbia after centuries of Turkish rule.

At first, the principality included only the territory of the former Pashaluk of Belgrade, but in 1831–1833 it expanded to the east, south, and west. In the first decades of the principality, the population was about 85% Serb and 15% non-Serb. Of those, most were Vlachs, and there were some Turkicized Muslim Albanians, which were the overwhelming majority of the Muslims that lived in Smederevo, Kladovo and Ćuprija. The new state aimed to homogenize its population, especially after two Great Migrations of the Serbs also known as the Great Exoduses of the Serbs, in 1690 and in 18th century, between 1718 and 1739, from various territories under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, particularly the Kosovo Vilayet, to the Kingdom of Hungary under the Habsburg monarchy.[2][3] As a result, from 1830 to 1876, it has been estimated that up to 150,000 Albanians that lived in the territories of the Principality of Serbia emigrated or were expelled.[4]

In 1867 the Ottoman army garrisons retreated from the Principality, securing its de facto independence.[5] Serbia expanded further to the south-east in 1878, when it won full international recognition at the Congress of Berlin.

After the 1877–1878 expansion, in the new areas (present-day Jablanica, Toplica and parts of Nišava District) an estimated 49,000–130,000 Albanians were expelled (Expulsion of the Albanians 1877–1878), settling mainly in Kosovo.[6][7][8] These events marked the beginning of the Serbian-Albanian conflict.[9]

The elite of Serbia was divided into two camps, the liberals vs. the conservatives, which corresponded to the similar division in the Russian intelligentsia between the "Westernizers" vs. the "Slavophiles".[10] Many of the terms and ideas used in the debate in Serbia were borrowed directly from the Russian debate between Slavophiles and Westernizers.[10] The conservatives wanted an society dominated by the Orthodox Church, were suspicious of Western values, looked back towards an idealized version of the medieval Serbian empire and generally preferred to preserve the predominately rural Serb society.[10] The liberals looked towards the West as a model; wanted less power for the Orthodox Church; looked forward to the future, and favored reforms designed to transform Serbia into a modern industrial, urbanized society.[10] By the beginning of the 1880s, Serbia along with Montenegro were the only European nations that had no railroads.[11] The lack of railroads sparked a bitter debate in the parliament with the liberals pressing for a railroad while the conservatives were opposed, warning that the changes that would be introduced by the railroad would be the end of traditional Serb society.[11] One conservative deputy warned that building railroads would cause Serbia to "suffer the same fate of the Indians following the discovery of America...Columbus brought European culture to America, but with it also the chains of slavery".[12] There was also the question of independence vs. dependence as Serbia was very much in the Austrian sphere of influence both politically and economically until 1903, and Serbia had been bullied into signing a series of trade agreements with the Austrian empire that were highly disadvantageous from the Serb viewpoint.[11] Unable to generate much economic growth, Serbia was forced into debt with the Serb national debt raising from 16.5 million francs in 1880 to 903.8 million francs in 1914.[11] The two most popular political parties, the Progress Party and the Radical Party, both represented the liberal tendency in Serb politics.[11] However, the idea of "progress" generated fears of a loss of national identity and that all that made Serbia unique would disappear forever, which was expressed in novels by writers such as Laza Kostić, Đura Jakšić and Stevan Sremac.[13] An editorial in the Belgrade newspaper Dnevni List (Daily Newspaper) stated: "Nowhere else in the world can one see the miraculous and absurd situation that the modern ideas of political and social progress are advocated in parliament by village cash-loan givers, former municipal cops, and illiterate bench-sitters and chicken sellers".[11]

Serbia was a predominately agrarian society with most Serbs living in an extended family unit known as the zadruga.[14] Serbia had one of the highest birthrates in Europe with the population increasing by 71.3% between 1880-1914.[14] At least part of the population increase was due to the structure of the zadruga, which provided for sharing the burden of child-rearing while also ensuring that young man could marry without first owning land or learning a craft as was the norm in Western Europe.[14] Serb couples tended to marry young.[14] Serb society was extremely patriarchal with fathers and husbands having absolute authority over their wives and children.[14] Legally, a man remained a minor until his father died, and it was common for a zadruga to be dominated by grandfathers who exercised absolute power over their sons and grandsons along with the women in the zadruga.[14] The German historian Marie-Jannine Calic wrote: "The zadruga represented a community of property, life, work, and authority. Private property did not exist, not even money".[14] In the late 19th century, the zadruga started to break down in part because family units of about 20-40 people were too large to share the same plot of land; in part because of the coming of a market economy in place of the previous barter economy, which made it possible for a couple to break away from a zadruga without suffering economic ruin; and in part because of a tendency of many young men to learn a trade or a craft in order to escape the patriarchal zadruga.[15] In the Ottoman era, the majority of the land was owned by Muslim pashas or beys, and in the aftermath of independence, the feudal estates of the Muslim aristocracy were broken up.[16] Serbia was one of the few places in Eastern Europe at the time where the peasantry owned their own land instead of working in a feudal estate owned by some nobleman.[16] However, land was owned by the zadruga instead of by individuals, and legally land owned by a zadruga could only be divided in exceptional conditions.[16] Poverty was extreme in rural Serbia owning to the small size of the farms vs. the large zadrugas, and between 1910-1914 two-thirds of Serb farmers were not able to make an existential minimum.[17] Surveys revealed that half of Serb farmers did not own a yoke of oxen while a third did not own plows or even beds.[17] By October of each year, about 28% of rural Serbs suffered from food insecurity, and by the time of January–February about 46% of rural Serbs suffered from food insecurity.[18] The increasing population along with the poverty led to a tendency to increase farmland instead of increasing yields as it was common for farmers to turn woods and meadows into grain fields alongside a tendency to switch from a meat-based diet to a vegetarian diet.[17] The upper and middle classes in Serbia represented a small percentage of the population.[11] Besides for the royal family, Belgrade had only six millionaires in 1900.[11] In the cities such as Belgrade, people started to discard the traditional clothing in favor of Western style clothing by the 1890s as a symbol of modernity and progress.[19]

### Serbo-Bulgarian War, 1885

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Main article: Serbo-Bulgarian War

The Serbo-Bulgarian War erupted on November 14, 1885, and lasted until November 28 of the same year. The war ended in defeat for Serbia, as it had failed to capture the Slivnitsa region which it had set out to achieve. Bulgarians successfully repelled the Serbs after the decisive victory at the Battle of Slivnitsa and advanced into Serbian territory taking Pirot and clearing the way to Niš.

When Austria-Hungary declared that it would join the war on the side of Serbia, Bulgaria withdrew from Serbia leaving the Serbo-Bulgarian border precisely where it had been prior to the war. The peace treaty was signed on February 19, 1886, in Bucharest. As a result of the war, European powers acknowledged the act of Unification of Bulgaria which happened on September 6, 1885.

### Balkan Wars and expansion

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Main articles: Balkan Wars and Serbia in the Balkan Wars

Territorial expansion of the Kingdom of Serbia in 1913 Serbia in 1918 (27 November – 1 December, during de facto military demarcation)

Negotiations between Russia, Serbia and Bulgaria led to the Serbian-Bulgarian Treaty of Alliance of March 1912, which aimed to conquer and to divide the Ottoman held Macedonia. In May, a Serbian-Greek alliance was reached and in October 1912, a Serbia-Montenegro alliance was signed.[20]

After the war started, Serbia, together with Montenegro, conquered Pristina and Novi Pazar. At the Battle of Kumanovo Serbs defeated the Ottoman army and proceeded to conquer Skopje and the whole of Kosovo vilayet. The region of Metohija was taken by Montenegro. At Bitola and Ohrid Serbian army units established contact with the Greek army. Populations of ethnic Serbs and Albanians tended to shift following territorial conquests. As a result of the multi-ethnic composition of Kosovo, the new administrations provoked a mixed response from the local population. Serbs considered this a liberation.[21]

On November 29, 1913, the Drač County of the Kingdom of Serbia was established on the part of the territory of Albania taken from the Ottoman Empire during the First Balkan War. Serbian Drač County had four districts (Serbian: срез): Drač (Durrës), Lješ (Lezhë), Elbasan and Tirana.[22][23]

After the First Balkan War of 1912, territories of Kosovo and north-western Macedonia were internationally recognised as a part of Serbia[24] and northern Metohija as a part of Montenegro at the Treaty of London of May 1913.[25] In a report to Rome, Lazër Mjeda, Archbishop of Skopje, estimated that 25,000 Albanians were killed by Serbian forces during and after the conflict.[26]

The old disagreements regarding the territory of Macedonia among the members of the Balkan League and primarily Serbia and Bulgaria, led to the Second Balkan War. Here, Serbia, Greece, Romania, the Ottoman Empire, and Montenegro fought against Bulgaria in 1913.

The final borders were ratified at the Treaty of Bucharest of 1913. Serbia came to control the land which became known as Vardar Macedonia, and today stands independent as the Republic of North Macedonia but land-locked Serbia was prevented from gaining access to the Adriatic Sea by the newly established Principality of Albania.

As the result of these wars, Serbia's population increased from 2.9 million to 4.5 million and territory increased by 81%.

### Assassination in Sarajevo

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Main articles: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and July Crisis

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo (then part of Austria-Hungary) brought the tensions between Austria-Hungary and Serbia to a head. Behind the assassination in Sarajevo was the secret Serbian officers organization Black Hand.[27] The assassins were supported by an "underground railroad" of Serbian civilians and military officers that provided transportation and hid them; members of the Serbian military that trained them, encouraged them, and provided weapons, maps, and other information. After the assassination, the conspirators were arrested in Bosnia-Herzegovina and tried in Sarajevo in October 1914.

The political objective of the assassination was to break the southern Slav provinces off from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered a chain of international events that embroiled Russia and the major European powers in the conflict.

### World War I

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Main articles: Serbian Campaign (World War I), Salonika front, and Creation of Yugoslavia

On July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war against Serbia.

In 1915 Serbia was occupied by foreign troops after a combined invasion by Austro-Hungarian, German, and Bulgarian troops. The 135,000 soldiers of the Serbian Army retreated through Albania and were evacuated to the Greek island of Corfu, and in spring, 1916, they became part of a newly formed Salonika front. In 1916, the Kingdom of Montenegro was conquered by Austria-Hungary.

At the end of the war and the collapse of Austria-Hungary, Serbia experienced a loss of 28 percent of its pre-war population[28] and went through radical changes after the liberation, all within days. On November 28, 1918, it absorbed the Kingdom of Montenegro at the Podgorica Assembly.[29][30]

On December 1, 1918, Serbia united with the newly created State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs to form a new southern Slav state, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.[31] The new country continued to be ruled by the Serbian monarchy when in August 1921 Prince Alexandar I became king.

## Politics

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In 1888 People's Radical Party led by Sava Grujić and Nikola Pašić came to power and a new constitution, based on the liberal Constitution of Belgium was introduced. The lost war and the Radical Party's total electoral victory were some of the reasons why King Milan I abdicated in 1889. His son Alexander I assumed the throne in 1893 and in 1894 dismissed the constitution.

Jews from modern-day North Macedonia got their citizen rights after the region became a part of Kingdom of Serbia.[32]

### May Coup, 1903

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Main article: May Coup (Serbia)

King Alexander I of Serbia and his unpopular wife Queen Draga were assassinated inside the Royal Palace in Belgrade on the night of 28–29 May 1903. Other representatives of the Obrenović family were shot as well. This act resulted in the extinction of the House of Obrenović, which had been ruling Serbia since 1817.

After the May Coup the Serbian Skupština invited Peter Karađorđević to assume the Serbian crown as Peter I of Serbia. A constitutional monarchy was created with the military Black Hand society operating behind the scenes. The traditionally good relations with Austria-Hungary ended, as the new dynasty relied on the support of the Russian Empire and closer cooperation with Kingdom of Bulgaria.

### Pig war

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Main article: Pig War (1906–1908)

In April 1904 the Friendship treaty and in June 1905 the customs union with Bulgaria were signed. In response Austria-Hungary imposed a Tariff War (Pig war) of 1906–1909. After the 1906 elections the People's Radical Party came to power. In 1908 Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia, where Serbia had hoped to expand its territory.

### Bosnian Crisis

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Main articles: Bosnian Crisis and Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Bosnian Crisis of 1908–1909 (also referred to as the Annexation crisis) erupted into public view when on October 5, 1908, the Kingdom of Bulgaria declared its complete independence from Ottoman Empire and on October 6, 1908, when Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was populated mainly by South Slavs.

Austria-Hungary had ambitions of imperialistic expansion and saw the Balkans in the same way that other colonial powers saw Africa or Asia. This idea was severely opposed by the Serbian public and intelligentsia, mainly gathered around Serbian Literary Herald (Srpski književni glasnik).[33]

Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Britain, the Kingdom of Italy, Serbia, the Principality of Montenegro, German Empire and France took an interest in these events. In April 1909, the 1878 Treaty of Berlin was amended to accept the new status quo and bringing the crisis to an end. The crisis permanently damaged relations between Austria-Hungary on the one hand and Russia and Serbia on the other. The annexation and reactions to the annexation were some of the contributing causes of World War I.

### Administrative division

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Main article: Historical administrative divisions of Serbia § Kingdom of Serbia

Okrugs of the Kingdom of Serbia 1914

In 1890, it was divided into 15 districts (okruzi) which were further divided into counties (srezovi). Cities of Belgrade and Niš had special administrative status. The districts were: Valjevo, Vranje, Kragujevac, Krajina, Kruševac, Morava, Pirot, Podrinje, Podunavlje, Požarevac, Rudnik, Timok, Toplica, Užice and Crna Reka.

In 1912 and 1913 Serbia enlarged its territory after victorious First Balkan War. In August 1913, 11 new districts were formed in the newly liberated areas: Bitola, Debar, Kavadarci, Novi Pazar, Kumanovo, Pljevlja, Prizren, Priština, Skopje, Tetovo and Štip.

## Monarchs

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Peter I after his coronation on September 21, 1904

During its existence, the Kingdom was ruled by two competing dynasties: the House of Obrenović and the House of Karađorđević. King Milan Obrenović ruled from 6 March 1882 to 6 March 1889, when he abdicated the throne. He was succeeded by his son, Aleksandar Obrenović, who ruled from 6 March 1889 to 11 June 1903, when he was killed by a group of officers. The slaughter of the royal couple (the king and Queen Draga) by the Black Hand shocked Europe. This opened the way for the descendants of Karađorđe (Karageorge), regarded by Serbs throughout the Balkans as the man who threw off the Turkish yoke, to return to the throne. Petar Karađorđević was initially reluctant to accept the crown, disgusted as he was by the coup d'état. However, he finally did accept and was the Kingdom's sovereign from 15 June 1903 to 1 December 1918, the day that the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was proclaimed.

## Demographics

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### Cities

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The largest cities in the Kingdom of Serbia were (with population figures from c. 1910–1912):

Largest cities or towns in Kingdom of Serbia

https://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/G1953/pdf/G19534002.pdf

Rank  |  | District  | Pop.  | Rank  |  | District | Pop.
1 | Belgrade | City of Belgrade | 100,000 | 11 | Leskovac | Vranje okrug | 14,300
2 | Prizren | Prizren okrug | 60,000 | 12 | Tetovo | Tetovo okrug | 56,059
3 | Bitolj | Bitolj okrug | 54,000 | 13 | Požarevac | Požarevac okrug | 13,600
4 | Skoplje | Skoplje okrug | 50,000 | 14 | Šabac | Podrinje okrug | 12,800
5 | Niš | Niš okrug | 25,000 | 15 | Mitrovica | Priština okrug | 12,000
6 | Veles | Skoplje okrug | 24,000 | 16 | Vranje | Vranje okrug | 10,500
7 | Priština | Priština okrug | 20,000 | 17 | Pirot | Pirot okrug | 10,000
8 | Prilep | Bitolj okrug | 20,000
9 | Kragujevac | Kragujevac okrug | 18,500
10 | Ohrid | Ohrid okrug | 18,000

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History of Serbia

By century

* 9th
* 10th

Prehistory

* Paleolithic
* Mesolithic
* Neolithic
* Bronze Age
* Iron Age

Pre-Roman

* Illyrians
* Autariatae
* Dardani
* Triballi
* Moesi
* Scordisci
* Dacians

Early Roman

* Illyricum
* Pannonia
* Pannonia Inferior
* Dalmatia
* Moesia
* Moesia Superior
* Dacia
* Dacia Aureliana

Late Roman

* Moesia Prima
* Dacia Mediterranea
* Dacia Ripensis
* Dardania
* Praevalitana
* Pannonia Secunda
* Diocese of Moesia
* Diocese of Dacia
* Diocese of Pannonia
* Praetorian prefecture of Illyricum

Early Middle Ages

|  White Serbia|  around 600 AD

|

Principality of Serbia

Duklja, Travunia, Zachlumia, Narentines, Raška, Bosnia

|  7th-10th century
Catepanate of Ras|  around 969-976

High Middle Ages

|  Duklja (Zeta)|  11th-12th century

|

Theme of Sirmium|  1018-1071
Grand Principality|  1071-1217
Kingdom of Serbia|  1217-1346
King Dragutin's realm|  1282-1325

* Empire
* Fall

|  1346-1371
Lordship of Prilep|  1371-1395
Prince Lazar's Serbia|  1371-1402
Vuk's Land|  1371-1412
Despotate of Serbia|  1402-1537

Early Modern

|  Ottoman-ruled Serbia|  1459-1804

|

Jovan Nenad / Radoslav Čelnik|  1526-1530
Banate of Lugoj and Caransebeș|  16th-17th
Habsburg occupation|  1686-1699
Great Serb Migrations|  1690 and
1737-1739
Military Frontier|  1702-1882
Habsburg-ruled Serbia|  1718-1739
Koča's frontier|  1788-1791

Serbia 1804-1918

|  Serbian Revolution|  1804-1815

|

Principality of Serbia|  1815-1882
Serbian Vojvodina|  1848-1849
Serbia and Banat|  1849-1860
Kingdom of Serbia|  1882-1918

Serbia since 1918

|  Kingdom of Yugoslavia|  1918-1941

|

Axis occupation|  1941-1944
Federal unit of Socialist Yugoslavia|  1944-1992
Constituent state with Montenegro|  1992-2006
Republic of Serbia|  2006-present

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## Economy

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### Transport

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Serbia was geographically located in the path of several trade routes linking Western and Central Europe with Middle East. The Morava Valley was part of the strategically important terrestrial route that linked Central Europe with Greece and Constantinople. During the 19th century major efforts were made to improve the transport in this connections. At the Congress of Berlin in 1878, Austria-Hungary helped Serbia to gain new territories, conditioning Serbia, however, to sign a new convention. The convention obliged Serbia to construct the railway line from Belgrade to Vranje and Turkish and Bulgarian borders in three years. In addition, the obligation to sign commercial contracts was imposed on Serbia, as well as a claim to carry out regulation works in Đerdap. Serbian Government approved this treaty by adopting the Law on Proclamation of the convention. Consequently, Serbian Railways were formed in 1881. The regular traffic on the railway line Belgrade–Niš started in 1884.[34]

## Culture

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The Kingdom of Serbia participated in the International Exhibition of Art of 1911, with a number of artists showing their work as a part of the Serbian pavilion, including Marko Murat, Ivan Meštrović, Đorđe Jovanović and other artists.[35]

## See also

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* History of Serbia
* Invasion of Serbia by Bulgaria during the First World War

## Notes

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1. ^ Serbian: Краљевина Србија, Kraljevina Srbija

## References

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1. ^ Bataković, Dušan T. (2011). Minorities in the Balkans: state policy and interethnic relations (1804–2004): Les minorites dans les Balkans. Balkanološki institut SANU. p. 98\. ISBN 9788671790680.
2. ^ Ćirković 2004, pp. 143–148, 153–154.
3. ^ Гавриловић 2014, pp. 139–148.
4. ^ Rama 2019, p. 72:The outcome of this policy was that since the beginning of the war in 1876, according to, Braha and Brestovci, about 150,000 Albanians living there had been gradually expelled from the Serb state or emigrated from there
5. ^ "The Republics of the Former Yugoslavia: Independent States or Yugoslav People?" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-27. Retrieved 2010-01-10.
6. ^ Olivera Milosavljević; (2002) U tradiciji nacionalizma ili stereotipi srpskih intelektualaca XX veka o "nama" i "drugima"(in Serbian) p. 80; Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji [1] Archived 2022-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
7. ^ Geniş & Maynard 2009, pp. 556–557."Using secondary sources, we establish that there have been Albanians living in the area of Nish for at least 500 years, that the Ottoman Empire controlled the area from the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries which led to many Albanians converting to Islam, that the Muslim Albanians of Nish were forced to leave in 1878, and that at that time most of these Nishan Albanians migrated south into Kosovo, although some went to Skopje in Macedonia.
8. ^ Daskalovski 2003, p. 19\. "The Serbian-Ottoman wars 1877/1878, followed mass and forceful movements of Albanians from their native territories. By the end of 1878 there were 60,000 Albanian refugees in Macedonia and 60,000–70,000 in the villayet of Kosova. At the 1878 Congress of Berlin, the Albanian territories of Niš, Prokuple, Kuršumlia, Vranje and Leskovac were given to Serbia."
9. ^ Stefanović 2005, pp. 469–470:Despite some voices of dissent, the Serbian regime 'encouraged' about 71,000 Muslims, including 49,000 Albanians, 'to leave'. The regime then gradually settled Serbs and Montenegrins in these territories. Prior to 1878, the Serbs comprised not more than one half of the population of Nis, the largest city in the region; by 1884 the Serbian share rose to 80 per cent. (..) The 1878 cleansing was a turning point because it was the first gross and large-scale injustice committed by Serbian forces against the Albanians. From that point onward, both ethnic groups had recent experiences of massive victimization that could be used to justify 'revenge' attacks. Furthermore, Muslim Albanians had every reason to resist the incorporation into the Serbian state.
10. ^ a b c d Calic 2019, p. 22.
11. ^ a b c d e f g h Calic 2019, p. 21.
12. ^ Calic 2019, p. 21-22.
13. ^ Calic 2019, p. 23.
14. ^ a b c d e f g Calic 2019, p. 13.
15. ^ Calic 2019, p. 13-14.
16. ^ a b c Calic 2019, p. 14.
17. ^ a b c Calic 2019, p. 15.
18. ^ Calic 2019, p. 16.
19. ^ Calic 2019, p. 19.
20. ^ Biondich, Mark (2011). The Balkans: Revolution, War, and Political Violence Since 1878. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199299058. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022. Retrieved 4 May 2018 - via Google Books.
21. ^ Malcolm, Noel (26 February 2008). "Is Kosovo Serbia? We ask a historian". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 September 2013.
22. ^ Bogdanović, Dimitrije; Radovan Samardžić (1990). Knjiga o Kosovu: razgovori o Kosovu. Književne novine. p. 208\. ISBN 9788639101947. Archived from the original on October 6, 2022. Retrieved August 2, 2011. "На освојеном подручју су одмах успостављене грађанске власти и албанска територија је Де Факто анектирана Србији : 29. новембра је основан драчки округ са четири среза (Драч, Љеш, Елбасан, Тирана)....On conquered territory of Albania was established civil government and territory of Albania was de facto annexed by Serbia: On November 29 was established Durres County with four srez (Durres, Lezha, Elbasan, and Tirana)"
23. ^ Petrović, Dragoljub S. (1990). "Heterogenost stanovništva determinanta složenosti rešenja političkog statusa albanskog prostora (Heterogeneity of the population as determinant of the complexity of solving the political status of the Albania)" (in Serbian). pp. 237–271\. OCLC 439985244. Archived from the original on December 30, 2010. "Potom, 29. novembra 1912. formiran je Drački okrug u okviru kojeg su srezovi – Drač, Tirana, Elbasan i Lješ. ... On November 29, 1912 the Durres County was established and in it there were established the following districts – Durres, Tirana, Elbasan and Lezhe"
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* Calic, Marie-Janine (2019). A History of Yugoslavia. West Lafayette: Purdue University. ISBN 978-1-55753-838-3.
* Ćirković, Sima (2004). The Serbs. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9781405142915.
* Гавриловић, Владан С. (2014). "Примери миграција српског народа у угарске провинцијалне области 1699–1737" [Examples of Serbian Migrations to Hungarian Provincial Districts 1699–1737]. Истраживања (in Serbian). 25. Филозофски факултет у Новом Саду: 139–148.
* Rama, Shinasi (2019). Nation Failure, Ethnic Elites, and Balance of Power: The International Administration of Kosova. Springer. ISBN 978-3030051921.

## Further reading

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* Babac, Dušan M. (2016). The Serbian Army in the Great War, 1914–1918. Solihull: Helion. ISBN 9781910777299.
* Cirkovic, Sima (2004). The Serbs. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9781405142915.
* Cox, John K. (2002). The History of Serbia. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313312908.
* Daskalovski, Židas (2003). "Claims to Kosovo: Nationalism and Self-determination". In Bieber, Florian; Daskalovski, Židas (eds.). Understanding the war in Kosovo. London: Psychology Press. ISBN 9780714653914.
* DiNardo, Richard L. (2015). Invasion: The Conquest of Serbia, 1915. Santa Barbara: Praeger. ISBN 9781440800924. Archived from the original on 2022-10-06. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
* Dragnich, Alex N., ed. (1994). Serbia's Historical Heritage. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780880332446. Archived from the original on 2022-10-06. Retrieved 2018-08-19.
* Dragnich, Alex N. (2004). Serbia Through the Ages. Boulder: East European Monographs. ISBN 9780880335416. Archived from the original on 2022-10-06. Retrieved 2018-08-19.
* Dvornik, Francis (1962). The Slavs in European History and Civilization. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
* Frucht, Richard, ed. Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism (2000) online Archived 2018-08-19 at the Wayback Machine
* Jelavich, Barbara (1983a). History of the Balkans: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Vol. 1\. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521274586. Archived from the original on 2022-10-06. Retrieved 2018-08-19.
* Jelavich, Barbara (1983b). History of the Balkans: Twentieth Century. Vol. 2\. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521274593.
* Geniş, Şerife; Maynard, Kelly Lynne (2009). "Formation of a Diasporic Community: The history of migration and resettlement of Muslim Albanians in the Black Sea Region of Turkey". Middle Eastern Studies. 45 (4): 553–569\. doi:10.1080/00263200903009619. S2CID 143742189.
* Miller, Nicholas (2005). "Serbia and Montenegro". Eastern Europe: An Introduction to the People, Lands, and Culture. Vol. 3\. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 529–581\. ISBN 9781576078006. Archived from the original on 2022-10-06. Retrieved 2018-08-19.
* Radovanović, Bojan, and Mioljub Veličković. 110 years of the National Bank: 1884–1994: establishment and beginning of operation of the Privileged National Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia. National bank of Yugoslavia, 1994.
* Stefanović, Djordje (2005). "Seeing the Albanians through Serbian eyes: The Inventors of the Tradition of Intolerance and their Critics, 1804–1939". European History Quarterly. 35 (3): 465–492\. doi:10.1177/0265691405054219. hdl:2440/124622. S2CID 144497487.
* Rama, Shinasi (2019). Nation Failure, Ethnic Elites, and Balance of Power: The International Administration of Kosova. Springer. ISBN 978-3030051921. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
* Reiss, Rodolphe Archibald. The Kingdom of Serbia, 1919.
* Šojić, Milan, and Ljiljana Đurđević. "Dinar Exchange Rate in the Kingdom of Serbia 1882–1914." The Experience of Exchange Rate Regimes in Southeastern Europe in a Historical and Comparative Perspective, ONB Workshop. No. 13. 2007.
* Stavrianos, L.S.  The Balkans Since 1453 (1958), major scholarly history; online free to borrow
* Temperley, Harold W. V. (1919) [1917]. History of Serbia (PDF) (2 ed.). London: Bell and Sons.

### Other languages

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* Bataković, Dušan T., ed. (2005). Histoire du peuple serbe [History of the Serbian People] (in French). Lausanne: L’Age d’Homme. ISBN 9782825119587. Archived from the original on 2022-10-06. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
* Đurović, Arsen (2004). Modernizacija obrazovanja u Kraljevini Srbiji: 1905–1914. Istorijski institut.
* Kostić, Đorđe S. (2006). Dobro došli u Srbiju: Kraljevina Srbija u nemačkim vodičima za putnike; 1892–1914. Evoluta.
* Nikolić, Pavle (2001). Ustav Kraljevine Srbije (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
* Vucinich, Wayne S. (1954). "Serbia between East and West: the events of 1903–1908". X. 9. Stanford University Press.
* Dokumenti o spoljnoj politici Kraljevine Srbije.

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* a Prekmurje annexed by Hungary.
* b See also: SAO Kninska Krajina (1990) → SAO Krajina (1990–1991); and SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia (1990–1991), SAO Western Slavonia (1990–1991) and the Republic of Serbian Krajina (1990–1995), all replaced by the UN Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (1996–1998).
* c See also: Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia; and the Serbian Autonomous Oblasts (SAOs) of Bosanska Krajina, North-East Bosnia, Romanija and Herzegovina (1991–1992), which all combined to form the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1995).
* d Bačka was reannexed by Hungary (1941–1944), while Syrmia was annexed by the Independent State of Croatia (1941–1944).
* e Including North Kosovo. See also: Republic of Užice.
* f Annexed by Italy (1941–1943) and Germany (1943–1944). Smaller part annexed by the Independent State of Croatia (1941–1944).
* g North Macedonia's official and constitutional name was the Republic of Macedonia until 2019. It was known in the United Nations as the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia because of a naming dispute with Greece.
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