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Alexander I (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић, romanized: Aleksandar Obrenović; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903) reigned as the king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Draga Mašin, were assassinated by a group of Royal Serbian Army officers, led by Captain Dragutin Dimitrijević.
Alexander I 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. He was the second son of Peter Karadjordjević—king of Serbia (1903–18) and king.
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In 1914, he became prince regent of Serbia. During the First World War, he held nominal command of the Royal Serbian Army . In 1918, Alexander oversaw the unification of Serbia and the former Austrian provinces of Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
Sponsored Links. 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 ...
Crown Prince Alexander was the supreme commander of the Serbian army in World War I at the Cer and Kolubara battles in 1914, when the Serbian troops were victorious against the Austro-Hungarian army. Attacked by Austro-Hungary, Germany and Bulgaria, Serbia’s Army suffered a series of defeats in 1915.
In 1900, the king of Serbia, Alexander I Obrenovic, married his mistress, Draga Masin, angering his army general staff and the Radical Party. In 1903, rebels from the Belgrade garrison broke into the royal palace and shot down the king and queen, throwing their naked bodies into the garden.
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 ...