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7 unusual facts about Kingdom of Yugoslavia


Free State of Fiume

At the height of the dispute between the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and the Kingdom of Italy, the Great Powers advocated the establishment of an independent buffer state.

Ivo Perović

Ivo Perović (1882 − 1958) was Regent of Yugoslavia for the underage Peter II from 1934 to 1941.

Metodija Andonov-Čento

The following year, he imposed the use of the Macedonian language in school lectures and was therefore imprisoned at Bajina Bašta and sentenced to death by the government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia for advocating the use of a language other than Serbo-Croatian.

Podravina

Between 1929 and 1941 a province of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia known as the Drava Banovina (Drava province) existed in the area with its capital in Ljubljana.

Postage stamps and postal history of Yugoslavia

The story of the postage stamps and postal history of Yugoslavia officially begins with the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on 1 December 1918.

Prekmurje

After 1919, this name was rediscovered and introduced again, now for administrative purposes, by the new Yugoslav administration.

Radenko Stanković

Radenko Stanković was Regent of Yugoslavia for the underage Peter II from 1934 to 1941.


Aleksa Buha

Aleksa Buha (born on 21 November 1939 in Ribare, Gacko, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is Serbian philosopher and member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska.

Building of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

After World War I, the building became the government headquarters of the Drina Banovina province in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Charles I of Austria's attempts to retake the throne of Hungary

On March 28, Czechoslovak and Yugoslavians envoys declared a restoration would be a casus belli; on April 1 the diet (with legitimists abstaining) passed a unanimous resolution praising Horthy's conduct and endorsing the status quo, and calls for Charles' arrest grew (Horthy adamantly refused this); by April 3 Briand publicly denied any deal had been made.

Dragomir Čumić

Dragomir Čumić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгомир Чумић) also known as Drago Čuma (8 May 1937 in Sirač near Daruvar, Kingdom of Yugoslavia - 10 November 2013 in Belgrade, Serbia) was a Serbian actor.

Gojko Đogo

Gojko Đogo (Serbian Cyrillic: Гојко Ђого), born November 21, 1940 in Vlahovići (Ljubinje), Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is a Serb poet and dissident imprisoned in SFR Yugoslavia during the 1980s on the basis of verbal offence for "defaming the memory of Josip Broz Tito".

Harald Turner

Harald Turner (8 October 1891 in Leun – 9 March 1947 in Belgrade) was an SS commander and Staatsrat (privy councillor) in the German military administration of the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia in the partitioned Kingdom of Yugoslavia during World War II.

Josip Duvančić

Josip "Mićo" Duvančić (born 1 October 1935 in Razvođe village near Promina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is a Croatian former football player and manager.

Karlo Štajner

After an illegal communist printing house in Zagreb where Štajner worked was searched by the police in 1931, he fled Yugoslavia, visiting Paris, Vienna, and Berlin before finally settling in the Soviet Union in 1932 where he worked in the Comintern publishing house in Moscow.

Lotika Zellermeier

Lotika Zellermeier (Cyrillic: Лотика Цилермајер, Serbian Latin: Lotika Cilermajer) (1860, Kraków, Poland – 1938, Višegrad, Yugoslavia) was the inspiration for the main character from the 1961 Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andrić’s novel The Bridge on the Drina.

Nimon Lokaj

Nimon Lokaj (Serbian Cyrillic: Нимон Локај) (born 7 December 1941 in Pobrde, near Deçan, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is an Albanian painter.

Qazim Mulleti

After the failure of the June Revolution, he left Albania, first moving to Zara, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and later in Vienna, where he stayed as a political immigrant until 1931.

Rrok Mirdita

Rrok Kola Mirdita (born September 28, 1939, Klezna, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, today Montenegro) is the Catholic Archbishop of Durrës-Tirana, and the Primate of Albania.

Seka Sablić

Jelisaveta "Seka" Sablić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јелисавета "Сека" Саблић, born June 13, 1942, in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is an awarded Serbian Jewish actress.

Sodobnost

In a period when the Communist party was outlawed in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the magazine enabled many prominent Communists to publish articles under pseudonyms; among them were Edvard Kardelj, Boris Kidrič, and Ivo Brnčič.

Stevan Sekereš

Stevan Sekereš (born September 26, 1937 in Mirkovac village in Baranja, Danube Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia died 23. November 2012. in Novi Sad, Serbia) is a Serbian defender who played for SFR Yugoslavia.

Stjepan Filipović

Before the outbreak of the Second World War he lived in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kragujevac, Serbia, then both part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Yugoslav government-in-exile

The Yugoslav government in exile was the official government of Yugoslavia, headed by King Peter II, which evacuated from Belgrade in April 1941, after the German invasion of the country, first to Greece, then Palestine, then to Cairo in Egypt and finally, in June 1941, to the United Kingdom.

Zdravko Šotra

Šotra was born in the village of Kozice, near Stolac, at the time part of the Littoral Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (modern Bosnia and Herzegovina), into an ethnic Serb family (Herzegovinian Serbs).


see also

Alexander of Serbia

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

Corfu Declaration

In 1916, the Serbian Parliament in exile decided the creation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia at a meeting inside the Municipal Theatre of Corfu, Greece.

Milan Ćurčin

Milan Ćurčin (Pančevo, 14 November 1880-Zagreb, 20 January 1960) was a Serbian poet and editor of an influential magazine, printed in Zagreb during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Orders, decorations, and medals of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

The orders, decorations, and medals of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia were inherited from the Kingdom of Serbia and also established during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia period from 1918 to 1945.

Radivoje

Radivoje Janković (1889–1949), general of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Staro Sajmište

After the April war of 1941 when Germany and its allies occupied and partitioned the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, entire Syrmia region (including the left bank of the Sava) became part of the Independent State of Croatia where they set the Ustaše regime.