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4 unusual facts about Alexander I of Yugoslavia


1929 Mitropa Cup

Clubs from Yugoslavia were barred from the competition after King Alexander declared a royal dictatorship on January 6 of that year.

Alexander of Serbia

Alexander I of Yugoslavia (1888-1934), King of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Emanuel Cvjetićanin

King Alexander I of Yugoslavia offered him a post as one of his Field Marshals, but he refused.

Vukov Spomenik

A donor of the campus was king Alexander I of Yugoslavia, so the campus was named "King Alexander the First".


Gani Bey Kryeziu


Gani grew up in Serbia, attended a military academy in Sarajevo, and served in the Serbian army in early '20s, as well as aide-de-camp for Alexander I of Yugoslavia, and for a short time in Albania during 1925 after the June Revolution and Zogu coming into power.

Ivan Mihailov

The most spectacular of these was the assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and the French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou in Marseilles in 1934, in collaboration with Ante Pavelić.

Maria of Yugoslavia

Following the assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia in Marseille in 1934, her oldest son became Peter II of Yugoslavia, the last Yugoslav king.

Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia

After the death of King Alexander I, and during the Regency administration (of Regent Prince Paul, Radenko Stanković and Ivo Perović) that followed, the City of Belgrade District Court issued Decree No. 0.428/34 on 27 October 1938.

Victor Denain

For example, as Air Minister he piloted his personal Breguet 27 to Belgrade, accompanied by two squadrons of Breguet 27s and a Dewoitine, to attend the funeral of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia on 17 October 1943.


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Vlado Singer

Singer was again arrested after the assassination of Alexander I of Yugoslavia in Marseille, France.