Principality of Serbia
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Principality of Serbia Кнежевина Србија Kneževina Srbija 1833 –1882 |
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| Official language | Serbian | ||||
| Capital | Kragujevac , Belgrade | ||||
| Form of government | principality | ||||
| Form of government | monarchy | ||||
| Head of state | Prince | ||||
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Area - 1878 to 1883 |
47,900 km² |
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Foundation - 1817 - 1878 - 1882 |
De facto independence. International recognition through the Berlin Congress. Conversion to kingdom |
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The Principality of Serbia ( Serbian Кнежевина Србија Kneževina Srbija ) was an area in the Balkans that belonged to the Ottoman Empire . Between 1804 and 1815 this part of the country was granted limited autonomy under a prince as a result of the first and second Serbian uprisings against Turkish rule by the Ottoman Empire.
history
As a result of the Second Serbian Uprising, the Ottoman vizier in Belgrade, Marašli Ali Paša, first recognized the later Prince Miloš Obrenović as supreme Knez , who was elected hereditary prince in a popular assembly on November 6, 1817. With a document from August 1830, Sultan Mahmud II recognized Obrenović as prince of the Serbs and with another document from November 1833 the autonomy rights of the principality were specified. Miloš Obrenović was the first recognized monarch of the Principality of Serbia. Thus the principality was de facto independent.
Initially, the territory of the principality was relatively small, the area was limited to the Paschaluk Belgrade . In the years 1831–1833 it was expanded to the east, south and west.
With the Berlin Congress in 1878, the principality achieved its full independence through international recognition. On March 6, 1882, it was converted into the Kingdom of Serbia .
Blazon
The Principality of Serbia carried the coat of arms of the medieval Serbian Empire .
It consisted of a French shield with a common silver cross in the red field and with a fire steel each in the four corner fields formed by the bars of the cross. The shield was surrounded by a laurel and oak wreath, covered with a hermelin-trimmed purple cloak and topped with a closed princely crown with an orb and a cross.
The silver cross in the red field with a fire steel in each of the four corner fields is also known as the Serbian cross .
Monarchs
The principality was ruled by the Obrenović family between 1842 and 1858 . The regents were:
- Miloš Obrenović (1815–1839) first reign
- Milan Obrenović II (1839) ruled for only 26 days and died afterwards
- Mihailo Obrenović (1839–1842) first reign
- Aleksandar Karađorđević (1842-1858)
- Miloš Obrenović (1858–1860) second reign
- Mihailo Obrenović (1860–1868) second reign
- Milan IV. Obrenović (1868-1882)
literature
- Felix Kanitz : The Kingdom of Serbia and the Serbian People. From Roman times to the present . B. Meyer, Leipzig 1904.
- Volume 1. Country and Population . ( PDF file; 37.9 MB ).
- Volume 2. Country and Population . ( PDF file; 36.1 MB ).
- Volume 3. State and Society . ( PDF file; 52.3 MB ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imbro Tkalac-Ignjatijevic: The constitutional law of the principality of Serbia. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1858.
