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  serbia - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Serbia and Yugoslavia were among the countries that had the greatest losses in the war: 1,700,000 (10.8% of the population) people were killed and national damages were estimated at 9.1 billion dollars according to the prices of that period.
Serbia and Montenegro opted to stay on in the federation and at the combined session of the parliaments of Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro held on April 27 1992 in Belgrade, the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was passed thus reaffirming the continuity of the state first founded on December 1 1918.
Serbia's terrain ranges from the rich, fertile plains of the northern Vojvodina region, limestone ranges and basins in the east, and, in the southeast, ancient mountains and hills.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia – Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
Alexander 1888-1934, king of Yugoslavia (1921-34), son and successor of Peter I. Of the Karadjordjević family, he was educated in Russia and became crown prince of Serbia upon the renunciation (1909) of the succession by his brother George.
Alexander (Alexander Karadjordjević), 1806-85, prince of Serbia (1842-58), son of Karageorge (Karadjordje).
Miloš or Milosh (Miloš Obrenović), 1780-1860, prince of Serbia (1817-39, 1858-60), founder of the Obrenović dynasty and of modern Serbia.
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 Alexander I of Yugoslavia Summary
Alexander Karageorgevich was born on Dec. 16 (N.S.; Dec. 4, O.S.), 1888, at Cetinje, Montenegro, the second son of Peter l, King of Serbia, and Princess Zorka of Montenegro.
On December 1 the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes was proclaimed with Alexander as prince regent.
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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 HRH Crown Prince Aleksandar II Karadjordjevic
Crown Prince Aleksandar II was educated at Le Rosey (Switzerland), Culver Military Academy (Indiana), Gordonstoun (Scotland) and Millfield (England).
The eldest son, Prince Petar, was born in 1980 in Chicago, Illinois; and the twin sons, Prince Filip and Prince Aleksandar, were born in 1982 in Fairfax, Virginia.
In 1985, The Crown Prince married in London Katherine Batis from Athens, Greece.
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 Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander is the only child of Peter II, the last king of Yugoslavia, who was from the Karageorgevitch dynasty, and Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark.
Alexander is the only grandchild of Aspasia Manos, wife of King Alexander I of the Hellenes, and therefore the only living royal, apart from his three sons, who has their ancestry: from a monarchical perspective, mostly reigning princes of Moldavia and Wallachia, as well as their families.
Alexander is a proponent of establishing constitutional monarchy in Serbia within its current borders and sees himself as the rightful king.
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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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 Serbian royals seek help from Serb expatriates in U.S. - iht,america,US Serbians Aid - Americas - International Herald ...
HOBART, Indiana Serbia's once-exiled crown prince and princess appealed to expatriate Serbs to provide humanitarian aid to the Balkan nation and said it was time to end the religious and ethnic extremism that had fueled the years of fighting between the republics that made up the former Yugoslavia.
The appeal came during a visit to Indiana by Crown Prince Alexander II and Crown Princess Katherine, who was a keynote speaker at a Serbian Sisters luncheon in Hobart.
Yugoslavia's communist government abolished the monarchy in 1945 and seized the family's palaces, lands and vineyards.
www.iht.com /articles/ap/2006/10/02/america/NA_GEN_US_Serbians_Aid.php   (517 words)

  
 Heir to the throne of the former Yugoslavia visits region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Crown Prince Alexander II and his wife, Princess Katherine, were enthusiastically received yesterday morning at the American Serbian Club on the South Side and the night before at a reception sponsored by U.S. Steel.
Alexander was educated in Britain, Switzerland and the United States, and served as an officer in the British army.
Serbia and Montenegro are all that remain of the Yugoslavia his father once ruled, which then included Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia and Bosnia, and Montenegro is planning a referendum on independence.
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 Winne.com - Report on Serbia, Land of beauty, encouragement and enterprise
"Serbia is the first country in transition which didn't record a serious decline in GDP during the first year of reforms", says Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, who promised further rise of GDP in 2002 up to 4%.
Serbia is known for its skillful, disciplined and well educated labor force, and the Government believes that along with the revival of the economy, a lot of people will find new jobs, either in foreign companies or in small and medium enterprises.
Crown Prince Alexander II and his wife, who chose Belgrade for their residence, after 50 years of exile, are equally devoted to humanitarian work and promotion of reforms.
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 Columbia Encyclopedia- Alexander - AOL Research & Learn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Of the Karadjordjevi´ 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 Radi´, 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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 Alexander   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Throughout his childhood Crown Prince Alexander lived in hotels with his rootless parents or at boarding school in England.
The family lived in London for many years, where Crown prince Alexander worked from 1989 onwards to restore democracy to Yugoslavia.
The family know live in the place where Alexander's father was born, and spend most of their time on charity work in Serbia and Montenegro.
www.dr.dk /aroyalfamily/person_alexander.htm   (109 words)

  
 :: The Balkan Pages ::
Serbia was the dominant partner in this state, which in 1929 adopted the name Yugoslavia (meaning 'Land of the South Slav's').
Yugoslavia remained independent of the U.S.S.R., as Tito broke with Stalin and asserted Yugoslav independence.
With the death of Tito, separatist and nationalist tensions emerged in Yugoslavia.
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 Information on the use of styles and the Advisory Bodies of the Crown
The Advisory Bodies of the Crown, in the present form, were re-instituted in 1992 upon a revised model of similar Body that existed during the lifetime of [the] late King Peter II.
Crown Council, advises the Crown in all the strategic and capital issues, and is composed by a maximum of 30 Councilors named by the Crown Prince from a Roster prepared by the Council itself, and composed of candidates who have achieved an elevated status in public life by their professional, scientific or artistic endeavors.
The Chancellery of HRH Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia informed on 28 June 2002 that HRH The Crown Prince has formed a Crown Cabinet "as a new institution that will deal in conducting the programs and goals of the Crown.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Crete/2122/yugstyles.html   (745 words)

  
 CNN.com - Exiled Crown Prince rallies support in Serbia - October 16, 2000
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- The exiled Crown Prince of Yugoslavia has launched a tour of the land of his ancestors to meet monarchists, pro-democracy politicians and church dignitaries.
Crown Prince Aleksandar Karadjordjevic is touring major cities in central Serbia on Monday in his most extensive tour to date, after meeting his homeland's new president, Vojislav Kostunica, and also the head of the Serb Orthodox Church, Patriarch Pavle, a day earlier.
Serbia is the larger of Yugoslavia's two remaining republics and the ancestral land of the Karadjordjevic dynasty.
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 Royal Yugoslavia (1918-1941): Royal standards
When King Alexander I was murdered in 1934 in Marseilles, young Crown Prince Peter (1923-1970) was not yet an adult.
The Crown Prince's standard (Standart Prestolonasljednika) is prescribed in the 1937 law.
It is similar to the Crown Prince's standard but without the crowns.
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 boys clothing: European royalty -- Yugoslavia
Stefan II also left an illegitimate son, Vuk, Prince of Zeta, whose great-great-granddaughter Milica mairred Lazar Grebelyanovich, who deposed Stefan Urosh V and was killed at the Battle of Kosovo Polje 1389 when the Serbs suffered a disatrous defeat at the hands of Turkish Sultan Murat I. The Ottomans
Prince Alexander, Serbian Regent, during the illness of his father, Peter I, reigned under a provisional giovernment.
Alexander was crowned King in 1921 after the death of his father King Alexander I, who had acted as Regent for his ailing father since 1914, had earned national fame as a soldier in the Balkan Wars and the First World War.
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 This Birthday Boy Wants to Be King - July 27, 2005 - The New York Sun
He'd like to trade in his hereditary title - His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander II of Serbia and Montenegro - for a weightier one and become the constitutional monarch of Serbia and Montenegro, or whatever the country is called next.
Several months after the fall of the Milosevic government in October 2000, the crown prince brought his family - second wife Katherine and teenage sons Peter, Philip, and Alexander - to live in the former royal compound on a hill on the outskirts of Belgrade.
At a brunch during the birthday weekend, the minister of finance and development gave a speech thanking the crown prince for his efforts on behalf of "your people." And representatives of all major political parties attended the gala dinner/concert/fireworks display the night previous.
www.nysun.com /article/17606   (443 words)

  
 CNN.com - Exiled Prince calls for Yugoslav unity - October 7, 2000
Yugoslavia's exiled Crown Prince Alexander is urging all the opposition elements in Yugoslavia to give their backing to Vojislav Kostunica in his task of rebuilding the country.
In an interview with CNN, the Prince said he had known Kostunica since 1991 and believes he has all the right attributes to lead Yugoslavia to political and economic recovery.
Yugoslavia was a kingdom prior to World War II, and the Royal family was forced into exile after the communists came to power.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/10/07/yugoslavia.crown.prince   (373 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Serbian prince aspires to throne
Alexander was born in Claridge's Hotel in London in 1945.
Crown Prince Alexander believes there is a role for the monarchy in the new Serbia.
He believes Serbia has real potential for the future but that certain actions have to be taken before the country can really move forward.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4784377.stm   (583 words)

  
 The Ottoman Sultans of Turkey & Successors in Romania
Thus King Ferdinand was the grandson of a first cousin of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (Ferdinand of Portugal, the brother of Augustus, Prince of Coburg, who was the father of Ferdinand of Bulgaria), and he married one of their own granddaughters, Marie of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
King Carol II then married Helen of Greece, who was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, through her mother Sophia, the sister of Kaiser Wilhlem II of Germany.
Serbia's only access to the sea, through the historic port of Kotor (Cattaro in Italian, obtained from Austria after World War I), the fear is that, should the Montenegrans decide to go their own way, the Serbs would use force, with enough local support to make resistance abortive.
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 Royal Palace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Royal Family resides in The Royal Palace in Belgrade, Serbia
King Peter II Crown Prince Alexander's father and grandfather King Alexander I lived in The Royal Palace Palace
HRH Hereditary Prince Peter HRH Crown Princess Katherine HRH Crown Prince Alexander II HRH Prince Philip HRH Prince Alexander
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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.
Prince Paul saw the Third Reich as the only power able to maintain the artificial state of Yugoslavia and he began secret negotiations with top Nazi officials in December 1939.
In Serbia, a new pro-Nazi government was first established under the leadership of Milan Asimovic and later under former Minister of War General Milan Nedic which governed until 1945.
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 TIME.com: Trustee -- Dec. 12, 1938 -- Page 2
Alexander's son, the present King Peter, is thus a first cousin once removed of Prince Paul.
While Crown Prince Alexander was being prepared for the kingship, Prince Paul went to Oxford.
By 1921 Serbia had been expanded into a nation twice its original size as a result of the post-War treaties and plebiscites, which gave Serbia Montenegro, the Austrian provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the semiautonomous region of Croatia and other generous slices of Hungary.
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 Reagalia
The summer palace of King Nicholas I. Princely Palace Biljarda (Princezin Dvor Biljarda; the residence of Prince-Bishop Peter II (from 1838), now the Museum of the Njegos Dynasty).
The Crown of Serbian King Uros III Decanski (14th c.) is kept at the museum in Monastery of Cetinje (Montenegro).
Belgrade, the mansion of Prince Milos Obrenovic I. ©ARB
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 Serbian uprising of 1875
Serbia [free since 1834] was already aspiring to play the part played by Piedmont in Italy [which united all Italian statelets], and to become the head of a Southern Slav empire [sic!] built up on the ruins of the Austrian and Ottoman empires.
In May [1876] the signs were ominous; Serbia was arming, and Prince Milan [of Serbia] gave the command of his troops to the Russian general Chernayev; Montenegro also was arming.
On July 8 Emperors Alexander II and [Austrian Emperor] Francis Joseph met at Reichstadt and signed a convention defining the policy of Austria and Russia.
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 Royalty.nu - Balkan Royalty - History, News, Books
Crown of Thorns: The Reign of King Boris III of Bulgaria by Stephane Groueff.
Her Eternal Crown: Queen Marie of Romania and the Baha'i Faith by Della L. Marcus.
The Playboy King by Paul D. Quinlan is a biography of King Carol II, who gave up his claim to the throne to be with his mistress, Magda Lupescu, later became king, but abdicated and married Lupescu.
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