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  Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander Karageorgevitch (Aleksandar Karađorđević, born July 17, 1945) is the current pretender to the abolished thrones of Yugoslavia and Serbia.
Alexander is the son of Peter II, the last king of Yugoslavia, who was from the Karageorgevitch dynasty, and Princess Alexandra of Greece.
Alexander is the only grandchild of Aspasia Manos, and therefore the only living royal, apart from his own sons, who has her ancestry: from monarchical perspective, mostly reigning princes of Moldavia and Valachia, as well as their families.
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 Alexander I of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander Karađorđević was born in Cetinje in Montenegro in December 1888.
King Alexander I was buried in the Memorial Church of St. George, built by King Peter I. As his son Peter II was still a minor, Alexander's cousin Pavle Karadjordjevic took the regency of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
The film record of Alexander I's assassination remains one of the most historic pieces of newsreel in existence, alongside the film of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia's coronation, the funerals of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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 23RD GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Marie-Mignon of ROMANIA Queen of Yugoslavia was born in 1900 in Rumania - dtr of Ferdinand.
Alexander II of YUGOSLAVIA (son of Peter I of YUGOSLAVIA and Zorka of MONTENEGRO) was born in 1888 in Montenegro - Son of Peter I. He died on 9 Oct 1934 in Marseilles - assassinated on visit.
Andrew III of YUGOSLAVIA was born in 1929 in Yugoslavia - son of Alexander II.
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 Peter II of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the son of Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Princess Maria of Romania and Hohenzollern, his Godfather was King George VI of Great Britain.
Peter II (Petar II), of the Karadjordjevic dynasty, succeeded in 1934 after the assassination while on a state visit to France of his father, King Alexander I, under a regency headed by his father's cousin, Prince Pavle.
On March 27th, 1941 King Peter II was proclaimed of age, and participated in a British-supported coup d'état opposing the Regent's signing the Tripartite Pact.
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 24TH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Alexandra of GREECE was born on 25 Dec 1926 in Greece?.
She was married to Peter II of YUGOSLAVIA (son of Alexander II of YUGOSLAVIA and Marie-Mignon of ROMANIA Queen of Yugoslavia) on 20 Mar 1944 in London.
Peter II of YUGOSLAVIA was born in 1922 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia - son of Alexander II.
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 My Family
Alexander of Carisbrooke (Marquess) was born in 1886.
Alexander of Wurttemberg (Duke) was born in 1804.
Alexander of Yugoslavia (Prince) was born in 1982 in Washington, District of Columbia.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Yugoslavia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
YUGOSLAVIA [Yugoslavia], Serbo-Croatian Jugoslavija, former country of SE Europe, in the Balkan Peninsula.
Yugoslavia came into existence as a result of World War I. (The earlier histories of its six component republics are treated separately, under their respective names.) In 1914 only Serbia (which included the present Republic of Macedonia) and Montenegro were independent states; Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
In late 1995 Yugoslavia (in the person of President Milošević of Serbia) participated in the talks in Dayton, Ohio, that led to a peace accord among Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia (Yugoslavia).
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 Kingdom of Yugoslavia stamps
King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (1888–1934) of the Royal House of Karadjordjevic was the first king of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929–34) and before that king of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1921–29).
Prince Alexander was not the first in line for the throne but his elder brother, Crown Prince George was considered unstable by most political forces in Serbia and was forced to renounce his claim to throne.
Alexander was considering restoring a form of parliamentary government when, on 9 October 1934, while on a state visit to France to strengthen the defensive alliance against Nazi Germany, he was assassinated in Marseilles by a Macedonian activist (allegedly acting with Croat separatists).
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HRH Crown Prince Alexander II In April 1941 after the Nazis attacked and occupied Yugoslavia the country's young King Peter II left in the wake of the invading German forces for Athens Greece with the Yugoslav government.
In 1944 in London King Peter II married Princess Alexandra of Greece the daughter of HM King Alexander of the Hellenes and Aspasia Manos.
Crown Prince Alexander conducted meetings and maintained constant contact with the democratic opposition and democrats throughout the former Yugoslavia.
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 math lessons - Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe.
King Alexander used the shooting as a pretext to strengthen his power and on January 6, 1929 he suspended the constitution, dissolved the Skupština and proclaimed a royal dictatorship.
Yugoslavia became a highly militarized state, which spawned several insurgent nationalist groups opposed to the royal dictatorship.
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 Yugoslavian Royal Family
Prince Alexander was from the House of Karageorgievich and was elected Prince of Serbia in 1842 but was forced to abdicate in 1859 in favour of Prince Milosh (1780-1860) from the House of Obrenovich.
For strategic purposes Alexander had travelled by boat from Yugoslavia to Marseilles and was due to meet up with his wife in Dijon/Lyon for the final journey to Paris.
Yugoslavia was proclaimed a Republic on 29 November in 1945 and the monarchy abolished without Referendum.
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 Interview with THE CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER II
Peter's son, King Alexander I, my grandfather, was during the years of the war Regent of the Realm before acceding the Throne.
Yugoslavia was kept out of the Second World War up until March 1941 when the nation decided to revolt against the treaty that was signed with Germany.
We recently had the visit of President Chirac in Yugoslavia, and he very correctly pointed out the view of the European Union and the one of France in particular, that it is not of their interest to have another divorce.
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 2e. The Russian Empire under Alexander II [Beyond Books - Modern European History]
When Alexander II took power, Russia was an agricultural nation that had been controlled by autocratic tsars who trumpeted Slavic cultural superiority, feared liberal revolutions, and preserved the feudal injustices of serfdom.
The reign of Alexander II was marked by a flourishing cultural life.
On March 13, 1881, in the midst of this instability, Alexander II died at the hands of a Polish terrorist, thus ending a quarter century of rule that helped bring Russia into the modern age.
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 AllRefer.com - Yugoslavia : History : Founding to World War II, Former Yugoslavia (Former Yugoslavian Political ...
The Paris Peace Conference (see Neuilly, Treaty of; Saint-Germain, Treaty of; Trianon, Treaty of) recognized the new state and enlarged its territory at the expense of Austria and Hungary.
His son, Peter II, succeeded under the regency of Alexander's cousin, Prince Paul.
In Mar., 1941, Yugoslavia adhered to the Axis Tripartite Pact.
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 Michael Parenti: The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia was built on an idea, namely that the Southern Slavs would not remain weak and divided peoples, squabbling among themselves and easy prey to outside imperial interests.
Yugoslavia was the one country in Eastern Europe that would not voluntarily overthrow what remained of its socialist system and install a free-market economic order.
Yugoslavia's sin was not that it had a media monopoly but that the publicly owned portion of its media deviated from the western media monopoly that blankets most of the world, including Yugoslavia itself.
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 AllRefer.com - Alexander, king of Yugoslavia (Yugoslavian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Alexander 1888–1934, king of Yugoslavia (1921–34), son and successor of Peter I.
Of the Karadjordjevic family, he was educated in Russia and became crown prince of Serbia upon the renunciation (1909) of the succession by his brother George.
After the assassination (1928) of Stjepan Radic, the Croat Peasant party leader, Alexander in 1929 dismissed the parliament, abolished the constitution and the parties, and became absolute ruler.
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 Alexander, king of Yugoslavia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
1888–1934, king of Yugoslavia (1921–34), son and successor of Peter I.
, the Croat Peasant party leader, Alexander in 1929 dismissed the parliament, abolished the constitution and the parties, and became absolute ruler.
Alexander was succeeded by his young son, Peter II.
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 AllRefer.com - Russia - Foreign Affairs after the Crimean War - The Rise of Revolutionary Movements | Russian ...
Russia's primary goal during the first phase of Alexander II's foreign policy was to alter the Treaty of Paris to regain naval access to the Bl ack Sea.
Russia's nationalist di plomats and generals persuaded Alexander II to force the Ottomans to sign the Treaty of San Stefano in March 1878, creating an enlarged, independent Bulgaria that stretched into the southwestern Balkans.
Alexander II's reforms, particularly the lifting of state censorship, fostered the expression of political and social thought.
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 Western Balkans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Yugoslavia was reconstituted in 1945 as a Communist Republic but the state was once more pulled asunder by internal divisions following the collapse of Communism in the West.
With the conquest of Yugoslavia by Axis forces in 1941, the state was broken up and several provinces were made into puppet regimes.
Serbia was constituted a Kingdom, under the theoretical authority of Peter II, but Peter was in exile from 1941, and never consented or agreed to the style or dignity of King of Serbia.
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 Gerard Baudson: The New World Order And Yugoslavia (Part II)
The war in Yugoslavia is the "general rehearsal" of a multitude of conflicts which may in the near future, explode in Europe and of which some are already in the making for years.
One of the paradoxes of Yugoslavia is that during the war from which it emerged, the future countrymen were fighting in the opposite camps.
Dislocation of Yugoslavia, separation of Czechs and Slovaks, encouragement of Hungarian separatists in Romania and in Vojvodina, in favor of Budapest and to the detriment of Bucharest and Belgrade.
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 Royal News: July 2001
Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales ae anxious to ensure royal status is not exploited.
The move by Yugoslavia's new pro-democracy authorities is part of their promise to restore the rights of the royal family, which was banned from the country by the Communists when they took power after the Second World War.
Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain expressed her sympathy for those affected by the foot-and-mouth crisis on a visit to a disease-hit area in Northumberland/ She met farmers, business leaders and residents and she was surprised how people had managed to cope with the effects.
www.nettyroyal.nl /newsjuly01.html   (2937 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Yugoslavia (History)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Yugoslavia YUGOSLAVIA [Yugoslavia], Serbo-Croatian Jugoslavija, former country of SE Europe, in the Balkan Peninsula.
Serbia and Montenegro SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO [Serbia and Montenegro], Serbian Srbija i Crna Gora, formerly Yugoslavia, Serbian Jugoslavija, federal republic (2005 est.
1,168,454), capital of Serbia and Montenegro, of its constitutent republic of Serbia, and of the former nation of Yugoslavia, at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers.
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 Croatia Myth&Reality: All Croatian were fascists during World War II; All Serbs were pro-allied
All of the nations of Yugoslavia had elements which supported the Axis and all had elements that were anti-Axis during the War.
World War II came to Yugoslavia as a direct result of the pro-Axis sentiments of the Serbian controlled Yugoslav government.
After the signing Cvetkovic assured Hitler that Yugoslavia "...would be ready to cooperate with Germany in every way." In fact, Paul had been cooperating since 1939 with mass arrests of Jews, strict racial laws, and the prohibition of trade unions.
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 TheHistoryNet | World War II | Invasion of Yugoslavia: Waffen SS Captain Fritz Klingenberg and the Capture of Belgrade ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Invasion of Yugoslavia: Waffen SS Captain Fritz Klingenberg and the Capture of Belgrade During World War II A quick-thinking, audacious Waffen SS officer and a handful of men captured the Yugoslav capital virtually without firing a shot.
Bulgaria was already allied to and occupied by the Germans, and many divisions passed through that country on their way to invade the countries to the south.
Soon after arriving in Yugoslavia, he was promoted to captain and given command of a motorcycle reconnaissance unit, which was responsible for gathering intelligence quickly and maintaining communications with rear units.
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 Alexander Aco Kasich -- November 9, 1921 to April 3, 2000
Kasich was born November 9, 1921, in Sibenik, Dalmacija, Yugoslavia, to Jovan and Ana Jakelic Kasich.
Kasich was a former treasurer for the Orthodox Men’s Society of the Shenango Valley and lectured for various churches and organizations on political issues.
Surviving are his wife, the former Mary Semanovich, whom he married November 9, 1974; Alexander Jr., Eugene, Oregon; and John, Austintown, Ohio and a brother, Vukasin, of Lyons, Illinois.
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 The Society of Notaries Public of BC > Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
After the death of Tsar Paul in 1801, and by agreement with the knights and the Emperor Alexander, a new Grand Master was appointed by Pope Pius VII.
The Russian Priories continued under successive Tsars as “Protectors,” until the murder of Tsar Nicholas II by the Bolsheviks in 1917, when the protection of the Order and custody of the Holy Relics of the Order passed to King Alexander II of Yugoslavia, then to his sons King Peter II and Prince Andrej.
Today, her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, is Sovereign Head of this Order, which is now known as “The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem” (MVO).
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 I6999: Alexander I Of Yugoslavia (King) (1888 - 1934)
Alexander I Of Yugoslavia and Marie (Mignon) Hohenzollern had the following children
Descendants of King Alexander I Of Yugoslavia and Marie (Mignon) Hohenzollern
1 Peter II Of Yugoslavia = Alexandra Oldenburg Of Greece
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 START II As A Victim Of Sexual Scandal In Moscow -- by Alexander Pikayev, March 19, 1999
Furthermore, START II might be supported by majority of the Agrarians and the Russian Regions groups, plus half of the conservative Power for the People.
Though opposition there against START II is less than in the Duma, the possibility should not excluded that by the next Council session scheduled for April some domestic or international developments - such as air strikes in Yugoslavia and continuation of a scandal with the Prosecutor General - would affect the process.
If it happens, the START II ratification by the Duma in April will be an important milestone in the complicated struggle for Treaty implementation, and the future of nuclear disarmament as a whole.
www.armscontrol.ru /start/publications/ap0319.htm   (1923 words)

  
 How Hitler Could Have Won World War II by Bevin Alexander
With an acute eye for detail and his use of clear prose, acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander goes beyond counterfactual "What if?" history and explores for the first time just how close the Allies were to losing the war.
Alexander's harrowing study shows how only minor tactical changes in Hitler's military approach could have changed the world we live in today.
Ultimately, Alexander probes deeply into the crucial intersection between Hitler's psyche and military strategy and how his paranoia fatally overwhelmed his acute political shrewdness to answer the most terrifying question: Just how close were the Nazis to victory?
www.bevinalexander.com /books/hitler-world-war-ii.htm   (1083 words)

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