House Karađorđević

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Coat of arms of the House of Karađorđević

The House of Karađorđević ( Serbian Карађорђевићи Karađorđevići ) ruled in Serbia from 1804 to 1813, from 1842 to 1858 and from 1903 to 1945 Yugoslavia , at times alternately and in competition with the House of Obrenović . The house lost power when the communists under Josip Broz Tito came to power in 1945 .

history

The royal crown of the house of Karaorđević.
Royal Castle on the Dedinje in Belgrade.
Beli Dvor Castle in Belgrade.
Alexander of Yugoslavia with his wife Katharina.

The Karađorđević house was founded by Đorđe Petrović , a Serbian merchant and revolutionary. In the First Serbian Uprising , he managed to liberate the country from the Ottomans . In the previous battles from 1796 to 1798 he was nicknamed Karađorđe, Black Đorđe. In 1807 the rebels set up their own government. Its highest authority was the great Serbian People's Council, the Sovjet praviteljstvujušči serbski , with Karađorđe as president.

In 1808 he was given the honorary title Vožd , which means leader or military leader, similar to Vojwode . The Ottomans had recaptured Serbia by 1813, and Karađorđe fled to Austria . One of the subordinate leaders, Miloš Obrenović , first surrendered to the Ottomans, but then fell back and organized the Second Serbian Uprising in 1815 . Karađorđe returned to Serbia in 1817 to take the lead again and prepare a new uprising. In order to signal his loyalty to the Ottoman Sultan and not to risk what he had achieved, Miloš Obrenović had Karađorđe killed.

After the deposition of Prince Miloš and his son Mihailo Obrenović by parliament, Karađorđes son Aleksandar Karađorđević became Serbian prince in 1842. In a political crisis he had to abdicate in 1858 . Instead of him, the aged Miloš Obrenović was reinstated as prince. The house of Karađorđević had to go into exile until 1903.

After the murder of Mihailo Obrenović in 1868, his nephew Milan Obrenović IV followed , who proclaimed the Kingdom of Serbia in 1882 and abdicated in 1889 in favor of his son Aleksandar Obrenović . Aleksandar fell victim to an officer conspiracy in June 1903, with him the dynasty of the House of Obrenović ended and the Karađorđevićs returned to the throne.

Peter I. Karađorđević was proclaimed king in 1903 by the Serbian National Assembly. Peter ruled Serbia during the First World War . His eldest son, Crown Prince Georg , who was seen as the spokesman for the aggressive junior officer circles and who was incapacitated because of the brutal murder of a servant in 1909 , caused scandals . His brother Alexander I. Karađorđević took over the reign temporarily and succeeded his father in 1921 as King of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes .

Alexander I introduced a royal dictatorship in 1929 after a coup . In 1929 he ordered the renaming of the state to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia . In 1934 he was assassinated in Marseille. Since his son Peter II was still a minor, his uncle Pavle Karađorđević took over the rule as regent. Peter II was declared of legal age in the Yugoslav coup d'état in 1941 , shortly before the German Reich invaded Yugoslavia, and took over official duties for a short time before he had to flee into exile with the government after the surrender of the army. In London in 1944 he married the Greek king's daughter Alexandra , their son Crown Prince Alexander was born there on July 17, 1945.

After short-term hopes of return, Peter II had to relinquish the throne in November 1945 and emigrated to the USA , where he died in 1970. Alexander's family was only allowed to return from exile after the fall of the Milošević regime in 2000. In 2003 they were granted the right to live in the Royal Castle on Dedinje . Alexander is non-partisan for the democratization of his homeland and promotes investments.

Regents

Head of the House of Karađorđević and pretender to the throne of Serbia

Other members of the House of Karađorđević

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