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Kingdom of Serbia

The Kingdom of Serbia (Serbian Cyrillic: ????????? ??????, Serbian Latinica:Kraljevina Srbija) was created when Prince Milan Obrenovi?, ruler of the Principality of Serbia, was crowned King. Congress of Berlin in 1878 recognized the borders of the Principality of Serbia. The Kingdom of Serbia was the legal predecessor of Yugoslavia which was formed after WW1 at the Versailles Peace Conference.

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History

The Kingdom's territorial peak in 1918, covering all of present-day Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro; parts of Croatia, Romania and Hungary

It fought several wars, including the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885, and the Balkan Wars of 1912?13 (the First Balkan War in 1912?13, and the Second Balkan War in 1913). It won the first Allied victory of World War I in 1914, but in 1915 it was occupied by foreign troops due to a combined invasion by Austro-Hungarian, German, and Bulgarian troops. After the war's end, it united with the Kingdom of Montenegro and the short lived State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs to form the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

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Milan Obrenovi?, King of Serbia

Despite its relatively short existence, the Kingdom was ruled by two dynasties: the House of Obrenovi? and the House of Kara?or?evi?. King Milan Obrenovi? ruled from 6 March 1882 to 6 March 1889, when he abdicated the throne. He was succeeded by his son, Aleksandar Obrenovi?, who ruled from 6 March 1889 to 11 June 1903, when he was deposed 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 Kara?or?e (Karageorge), regarded by Serbs throughout the Balkans as the man who threw off the Turkish yoke, to return to the throne. Petar Kara?or?evi? 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.

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Balkan-style palace in Kragujevac

Headquarters of the Belgrade University, pictured in 1890

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

Belgrade - 100,000
Prizren - 60,000
Bitola - 54,000
Skopje - 50,000
Ni? - 25,000
Veles - 24,000
Pri?tina - 20,000
Prilep - 20,000
Kragujevac - 18,500
Ohrid - 18,000
Tetovo - 14,000
Leskovac - 13,700
?abac - 12,800
Po?arevac - 12,000
Mitrovica - 12,000
Vranje - 12,000
Pirot - 10,000

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<gallery> Image:Serbia1878.png|The Principality of Serbia in 1878. Image:Serbia1913.png|The Kingdom of Serbia in 1913, following the Balkan Wars. Image:Serbia1918.png|The Kingdom of Serbia in 1918 (27 November ? 1 December), following its unification with Syrmia (24 November) and Vojvodina (Banat, Ba?ka and Baranja, 25 November) as well as with the Kingdom of Montenegro at the Podgorica Assembly (27 November). Image:Europe_1914.jpg|The Kingdom of Serbia in Europe, 1914. </gallery>

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Kingdom of Serbia

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