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  Kingdom of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Yugoslav kingdom bordered Italy and Austria to the northwest, Hungary and Romania to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece and Albania to the south, and the Adriatic Sea to the west.
Serb politicians regarded Serbia as the standardbearer of Yugoslav unity, as the state of Piedmont had been for Italy, and the nation of Prussia for the German Empire.
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was soon divided by the Axis into several entities: Hungary and Bulgaria annexed some border areas, Croatia was made into the Independent State of Croatia, and a rump Serbian state was created under the administration of Milan Nedić, which still recognized Peter II as King.
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 Carinthian Plebiscite article - Carinthian Plebiscite October 10 1920 Austria Kingdom Serbs, Croats Slovenes World - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Among these there was an internationally recognized State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, which was created on October 29, 1918, but was incorporated in the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on December 1, 1918.
At the early stage ethnic Germans and Slovenes in Carinthia roughly agreed to apply the Drava river as the borderline in the Klagenfurt (Celovec in Slovene) valley, as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes demanded.
The plebiscite determined the border between Austria and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Carinthian_Plebiscite   (707 words)

  
 Stjepan Radic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Although he is generally viewed as an obstructionist politician for his party's frequent boycotts of parliament, Radić is credited with galvanizing the Croatian peasantry into a viable political force for the first time.
After World War I he rose to political prominence among Croats for his opposition to merging Croatia with the Kingdom of Serbia without guarantees for Croatian autonomy.
However, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was established and the CPP became an opposition party.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/s/st/stjepan_radic.html   (318 words)

  
 Srem (region) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Throughout history Srem has been a part of the Roman Empire, Hun Empire, Avar Caganate, the Gepid Kingdom, Byzantium, Bulgaria, Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Austria, Austria-Hungary, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Yugoslavia and finally Serbia and Montenegro.
Territory of Srem united with the Kingdom of Serbia in 1918.
Region was County of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes between 1918 and 1922, then Province (Oblast) of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes between 1922 and 1929, and in 1929 it was divided between Dunavska banovina (the province of Danube) and (province of Sava), which were provinces of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Srem_(region)   (699 words)

  
 The Balkan Debacle Could Have Been Averted
The opposition of the Croats, Bosnians, Slovenes, and, of course, the Serbs, to the Austro-Hungarian Empire is equally undeniable.
Indeed, Serbs Croats and Slovenes connived with each other against Austria-Hungary, and it was they who in 1918 formed a new country: the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
Important Croat, Bosnian and Slovene personalities, together with Serbian leaders with similar ideas, were influenced by parallel 19th Century movements for cultural and national identity, and they agitated for a form of union of South Slavs.
www.slobodan-milosevic.org /news/ssi0493.htm   (2309 words)

  
 Royal Yugoslavia (1918-1941)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918-1929) - Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929-1941)
In late 1918 a new state was formed by the just united Kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro and the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs that encompassed the southern Slavic lands of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.
When the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was proclaimed in 1929 to replace the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, there was apparently no change in the 1922 flag law.
fotw.vexillum.com /flags/yu_shs.html   (451 words)

  
 First World War.com - Primary Documents - The Corfu Declaration, 20 July 1917
The State of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, who are also known by the name of Southern Slays or Yugoslavs, will be a free and independent kingdom, with an indivisible territory and unity of power.
The three national denominations, the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, are equal before the law in all the territory of the kingdom, and each may freely use it on all occasions in public life and before all authorities.
The territory of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes will comprise all the territory where our nation lives in compact masses and without discontinuity, and where it could not be mutilated without injuring the vital interests of the community.
www.firstworldwar.com /source/greaterserbia_corfudeclaration.htm   (910 words)

  
 Kingdom of Yugoslavia: 1919
It was as a result of strained relations and increased tensions between the Serbian government and the Yugoslav committee, coupled with outside political pressures, that a meeting was scheduled on the Greek island of Corfu.
The purpose was to discuss the problems relating to the formation of this new kingdom in hopes of reaching an agreement.
By December 1, 1918, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes was formed, with Prince Regent Aleksandar Karadjordjevic named as its sovereign.
www.thenagain.info /WebChron/EastEurope/YugoKingdom.html   (640 words)

  
 HRVATSKA POVIJEST: ---> Croatia within ex-Yugoslavia
That is why the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, established in 1918, did not obtain the confirmation and permission of the Croatian Parliament.
Very cruel persecutions of the Muslims by the Serbs resulted in their massive emigration to Turkey soon after the foundation of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918, where Serbia was the leading and privileged nation.
Croats in Serbian conquered regions of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina were forced to wear red-and-white armbonds, analogous to the yellow armbonds worn by Jews in Serbia during the Holocaust (see [Cohen]).
povijest.blogspot.com /2004/09/croatia-within-ex-yugoslavia.html   (8444 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (SHS), 1918-1929
On July 20th 1917, the CORFU DECLARATION was passed expressing the wish of the exile politicians from Croatia, Dalmatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Hercegovina and Serbia to establish a federation, a constitutional, democratic and parliamentary monarchy headed by the Karadjordjevic dynasty.
On December 1st 1918, the KINGDOM OF The SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES was proclaimed by Prince Regent ALEXANDER KARADJORDJEVIC.
Serb politicians regarded Serbia as the standardbearer of Yugoslav unity, as Piedmont had been for Italy and Prussia for Germany.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/balkans/shs191829.html   (550 words)

  
 YUGOSLAVIA: A VERSAILLES FAILURE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Serbs live mainly in the eastern, the Croats in the western, and the Slovenes in the northwestern part of the kingdom and, as is often the case in mountainous countries, the characteristics of these different races are strikingly distinct.
However, the Croats soon found, greatly to their displeasure, that as citizens of the new kingdom they were no longer the most important and coddled group of South Slavs, a position which they had occupied in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The Croat technicians, mechanics, as well as other air service crews, left the airdromes; the Serb officers were deserted and left without any crews; they were unable to use their planes and so to attack the enemy from the air.
www.suc.org /culture/history/The_Serbs_Chose_War/yu_versaj.html   (4068 words)

  
 Kingdom of Yugoslavia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a Balkan state which existed from December 1, 1918 to mid-April 1941.
The kingdom was formed in 1918 under the name Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Serbo-Croatian Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca, Slovenian Kraljevina Srbov, Hrvatov in Slovencev, short name Kraljevina SHS).
In 1928, Stjepan Radic, head of the Croatian Peasant Party, was shot in parliament by Punisa Racic, an ethnic Serbian nationalist leader from Montenegro.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/k/ki/kingdom_of_yugoslavia.html   (750 words)

  
 yugmodww2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Catholic Croats, the second most numerous nation, were least reconciled to their subordinate status in a unitary state, but the other Yugoslav peoples, including the Serbs, and the many national minorities also had fundamental grievances.
The Serbs, recalling their comradeship in arms with France and the UK on the Salonika Front in 1915-18, were both overwhelmingly pro-Allied in sentiment and inclined to feel that no war could be fought successfully without them.
Serb domination of the Yugoslav officer corps, and the anglophilia of Regent Prince Paul (1893-1976), reinforced the government's portrayal of its neutrality to the Allies as a temporary expedient, necessitated by the country's strategic vulnerability and economic subordination to the Axis, as well as by the faint heartedness of the non-Serbs.
www.ucc.ie /staff/jprodr/macedonia/yugmodww2.html   (462 words)

  
 THE PRESENT CONFLICT ON THE BALKANS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Yugoslavia was formed in 1918 as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, under the rule of Serbian king.
Croats and Slovenes got their nation states, as well as Montenegrins and Macedonians who were recognized as nations.
Croats of BH lost all what they could: population (29% since 1948) and land (a complete unique culture!), with Owen-Stoltenberg plan cutting their territories to 17% of BH, and international respect (through the conflict with Moslems).
jagor.srce.hr /izazov_dobra/t3.htm   (5351 words)

  
 Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, Kingdom of --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Ruled by the Serbian Karadjordjevic dynasty, the new kingdom included the previously independent kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro and the South Slav territories in areas formerly subject to the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Dalmatia, Croatia-Slavonia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Vojvodina.
It is bordered on the north, west, and south by Croatia, on the east and southeast by the Yugoslav republics of Serbia and Montenegro, and on the southwest by the Adriatic Sea along a narrow extension of the country.
It is not known when they organized as a kingdom, but by 1600 their state was a rival of the Kongo kingdom south of the river.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9066824?tocId=9066824   (968 words)

  
 Yugoslavia's Ethnicities
Serbs and Albanians have debated who rightfully owns Kosovo and while there is considerable debate on the topic, what is certain is that Kosovo was the power center of the old and powerful Serb Empire that controlled much of southeastern Europe until its terrible defeat at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389.
Serbs began to leave Kosovo following a failed uprising against their Ottoman rulers in 1689 and were soon replaced by Muslim Albanians.
The kingdoms of Serbia and Croatia split Bosnia in the 9th Century, and later it was ruled in 11th and 12th Centuries by the Kingdom of Hungary until Bosnia finally gained its independence around 1200.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/yugoslavia_ethnicities.htm   (3262 words)

  
 Carinthian Plebiscite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Carinthian Plebiscite (Slovene Koroški plebiscit, German: Kärntner Volksabstimmung) on October 10, 1920 determined the border between Austria and the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) after World War I.
The Yugoslavs pressed for a border on the Drava; the U.S. delegates spoke in favor of the preservation of the unity of the Klagenfurt Basin and succeeded in convincing the British and French delegations.
Because the Austrian side won, the referendum was not carried out in the northern zone B. The Plebiscite did not cover the areas of Carinthia now part of Slovenia, namely the fomer "Miestal" and the area around Dravograd (German Unterdrauburg).
www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Carinthian_Plebiscite   (693 words)

  
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Serbs speak Serbo-Croatian, or Serbian, a South Slavic language of the Slavic Branch of Indo-European.
The nearest related languages are Slovene, Macedonian, and Bulgarian (Voegelin and Voegelin 1965: 100).
In 1953, the Serbs comprised 41.7 percent of the Yugoslav population.
lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7867   (1426 words)

  
 History of Bosnia and Herzegovina - HERCEG BOSNA :: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina ::
The basic characteristic of this period is an aspiration of Serbs, using the domination in the army and politics, and relative numerousness (about 38% of the population) to intrude like the dominant actor in the country in order to "Serbianize" non-Serbian nations.
Croatian borders in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Intensified regime of repression (assassinations of the prominent Croats, persecutions of Macedonians and Albanians, Serbian colonization on the non-Serbian territories, terror of political police).
www.hercegbosna.org /engleski/kryuga.html   (1696 words)

  
 Slovenia
The Slovene flag day is held every year on 7th April, in remembrance to the 7 April 1848, when the first Slovene tricolour flag was hoisted publicly in Ljubljana.
Soon after the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) it was banned, or at least at times rarely tolerated;
When the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and later Yugoslavia was formed, the coat of arms adopted by the state consisted of a shield tierced, with the arms of Serbia, Croatia, and a third one representing Slovenia.
flagspot.net /flags/si.html   (1453 words)

  
 Articles - Srem/Srijem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Srem county was part of the Kingdom of Slavonia, a separate Habsburg province, mainly inhabited by Serbs and Croats (According to 1790 data, population of the Kingdom of Slavonia was composed of: Serbs (46.8%), Croats (45.7%), Hungarians (6.8%), etc.).
The Kingdom of Slavonia was incorporated into Hungary in 1868, thought it become part of Croatia-Slavonia, autonomous region within the Kingdom of Hungary.
Region was County of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes between 1918 and 1922, then Province (Oblast) of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes between 1922 and 1929, and in 1929 it was divided between Dunavska banovina (the province of Danube) and Savska banovina (province of Sava), which were provinces of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
www.gaple.com /articles/Srem_(region)   (952 words)

  
 Yugoslavia and the World Wars
However in 1915 Italy and Bulgaria came to the aid of Austria-Hungary and dealt the Serb armies some crushing blows and the Serb army and leadership was forced to flee to the island of Corfu, leaving Serbia to be occupied by the Austro-Hungarians and Bulgarians.
On December 1, 1919, Prince Regent Aleksander I Karadjordjevic declared the founding of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes and six months later the Kingdom was recognized by the Paris Peace Conference.
A new government was appointed under the leadership of Serb Milan Stojadinovic and while the reduced the level of political oppression he failed to liberalize the government and did not pacify Croatian political groups.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/yugo-hist1.htm   (1752 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Slavs
This kingdom which reached its highest prosperity at the close of the Middle Ages, then gradually declined and, at the close of the eighteenth century, was divided by the surrounding powers -- Russia, Prussia, and Austria.
The Slovenes have the position farther to the west in the Alps and on the Adriatic.
Taking Serbs and Croats together there are: in Austria 711,382; in Hungary and Croatia, 2,839,016; in Bosnia and Herzegovina, probably 1,7000,000; in Montenegro, 350,000; in Serbia 2,298,551; Old Serbia and Macedonia, 350,000; Albania and the vilayet of Scutari, about 100,000; Italy 5000; Russia 2000; America and elsewhere, 300,000.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14042a.htm   (7677 words)

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