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To many, it appeared that Yugoslavia was sliding into the civil war that Alexander's "self-coup" of January 1929 was supposed to prevent. [57] King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president of Republic of Turkey, in 1933. Starting in 1933, Alexander had become worried about Nazi Germany.
Alexander I (born December 4 [December 16, New Style], 1888, Cetinje, Montenegro—died October 9, 1934, Marseille, France) was the king of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (1921–29) and of Yugoslavia (1929–34), who struggled to create a united state out of his politically and ethnically divided collection of nations.
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Alexander I, (born Dec. 4, 1888, Cetinje, Montenegro —died Oct. 9, 1934, Marseille, France), King of Yugoslavia (1921–34). After commanding Serbian forces in World War I, Alexander succeeded his father, Peter I, as king of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in 1921. In 1929 he abolished the constitution and established a royal ...
Payne says that Alexander's assassination resulted in a return to a milder political climate in Yugoslavia and that by 1939 the "regime had returned to a kind of political pluralism." [13] However, the policy of suppressing the national identities of the various ethnic groups that constituted Yugoslavia continued under the post- World War II ...
Born on 16 December 1888 in Cetinje, Montenegro, Alexander Karadjordjevic was the second son of King Peter I, who came to power as constitutional monarch of Serbia in the violent coup of 1903 that saw the downfall of the Obrenovic dynasty. After spending his formative years in exile in Geneva with his father, Alexander entered the Russian ...
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Alexander I, also known as Alexander the Unifier, was King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 16 August 1921 to 3 October 1929 and King of Yugoslavia from 3 October 1929 until his assassination in 1934. His reign of 13 years is the longest of the three monarchs of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
May 8, 2018 · Alexander, 1888–1934, king of Yugoslavia (1921–34), son and successor of Peter I [1]. Of the Karadjordjević family, he was educated in Russia and became crown prince of Serbia upon the renunciation (1909) of the succession by his brother George.
