Order of Takovo
The Takovo Order ( Serbian - Cyrillic Орден Таковског крста , Order Takovskog krsta "Order of the Takovo Cross", also Order Takova ) was an Order of Merit of the Principality and the later Kingdom of Serbia .
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Serbia in 1865, Prince Mihailo Obrenović awarded the surviving participants in the liberation struggle with a gold cross. It was already in the shape of the Order of Takovo, even if it hadn't been named that way.
At the beginning of the Serbian-Ottoman War in 1876, Prince Milan IV created an award for “services to the enemy”. He kept the aforementioned cross and founded two classes on July 12, 1878 under the name Takovo Order . These consisted of a gold and a silver cross. On February 15, 1878, the order's statutes were reorganized.
The order is named after the place Takovo , where the Second Serbian uprising against the rule of the Ottomans began in 1815 .
Classes
The Order of Takovo, as a military. and civil order, had five classes
The king was grand master of the order and the queen and crown prince carried the grand cross .
According to the Order Act of 1883, the Takovo Order was only awarded for military service.
When the Obrenović dynasty perished in 1903, the Takovo order was declared extinct by the successor Peter I of the Karađorđević family . The newly founded Karageorgewitsch Order took over its function.
Order decoration
The medal consists of an eight-pointed, white enameled and gold-framed St. John's Cross with small, golden balls on the eight points and a golden St. Andrew's cross whose crossbars are visible in the four corners of the cross.
Above the decoration there is a golden crown to which the ring for the ribbon is attached. The round center shield, surrounded by two golden laurel branches, shows the golden, entwined signature of King MO (Milan Obrenovic) on a red enameled background . Above the crown, around it is a blue-enamelled ring in the form of a ribbon, which contains the inscription of the order's motto for faith, prince and fatherland in Serbian initials .
The back of the order cross is smooth and completely golden. In the middle shield is the Serbian coat of arms embossed in gold.
Ribbon of the Order
The ribbon is red with a white and blue border on each side.
Grand crosses carried the medal on a sash over their shoulder, grand officers and commanders around their necks, and knights carried the decoration in their buttonholes or on their left breasts.
In addition to the order cross, the second highest classes of the Takovo order also carried an order star on their chests.
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literature
- Maximilian Gritzner : Handbook of the knight and merit orders of all civilized states of the world , Leipzig 1893, ISBN 3-8262-0705-X
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of all orders and their images in : The orders, coats of arms and flags of all regents and states . Leipzig 1883–1887.