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The
Kingdom of Serbia (
Serbian Cyrillic: Краљевина Србија,
Kraljevina Srbija) was a state that existed in the
Balkans from
1882 to
1918. It was recognised as the
Principality of Serbia by the
Congress of Berlin in
1878.
History
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
de facto ceased to exist in
1915, due to a combined invasion by
Austro-Hungarian,
German, and
Bulgarian troops, culminating in its almost total defeat during the
Battle of Kosovo. 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.
Economy
The Kingdom was the object of a
trade embargo by Austria-Hungary in 1906, known as
Pig War. Austria-Hungary intended to cripple the Kingdom's economy, but the embargo instead led to an end to Serbia's dependence on the Austro-Hungarian market for its
livestock exports. The measure was counterproductive and Serbia's exports actually rose from £2.864 mln in 1906 to £3.259 in 1907, while in 1905 they'd been £2.879 mln.
Rulers
Despite its relatively short existence, the Kingdom was ruled by two 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 deposed in a bloody
military coup. 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 and the Kingdom of Serbia ceased to exist.
Cities
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
- Niš - 25,000
- Veles - 24,000
- Priština - 20,000
- Prilep - 20,000
- Kragujevac - 18,500
- Ohrid - 18,000
- Tetovo - 14,000
- Leskovac - 13,700
- Šabac - 12,800
- Požarevac - 12,000
- Mitrovica - 12,000
- Vranje - 12,000
- Pirot - 10,000
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