Serbia gets used to its new King as Europe sets the stage for World War I.
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Episode 10 – Death of a Dynasty
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King Alexander I ascended the Serbian throne at the age of 12 in 1889. He didn’t know it, but he was to be the last of the Obrenović dynasty…..
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Episode 9 – The Prince is Gone. Long Live the King!
So Serbia is now independent, and instead of just a Prince, it now has a King. OK. Now what?
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Episode 8 – The Great Eastern Crisis Part II
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The second half of the great war of the 1870s in the Balkans.
Maps page including new map for 1878 here.
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Episode 7 – The Great Eastern Crisis Part I
Today, we enter the most important event in Serbia’s history since the Second Uprising, as the Principality goes to war with the Ottomans again.
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Episode 6 – The Obrenović Comeback Tour
In 1858, Miloš and Mihailo Obrenović came back from exile. This week, we’ll see what they got up to second time round.
Also, there are now maps!
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Episode 5.5 – The Black Mountain
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Today, we get up to speed on what’s been happening up until the 1850s in Serbia’s neighbour, Montenegro.
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Episode 5 – Greater Serbia
This episode, we take a look at developments in Serbia under the reign of the much-maligned Prince Alexander Karađorđević, and the origins of the Serb ethnic nationalist movement.
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Episode 4 – The Sick Man of Europe
After becoming Prince of Serbia in 1817, Miloš Obrenović set about consolidating his position as an autocratic ruler. Further to the South, the Greeks start to get restless too….
Episode 3 – The Serbian Uprising
Finally, time to get the first of the countries that will become Yugoslavia on the board, as a bunch of disgruntled Janissaries inadvertently provoke the creation of modern Serbia.