Kingdom of Serbia

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Kingdom of Serbia Краљевина Србија Kraljevina Srbija
1882–1918
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem: Боже правде Bože pravde (English: "God of Justice")
The Kingdom of Serbia in 1914
Capital and largest city	Belgrade 44°48′35″N 20°27′47″E
Common languages	Serbian
Religion	Eastern Orthodoxy (state religion)[1]
Demonym(s)	Serbian, Serb
Government	Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
King
• 1882–1889	Milan I
• 1889–1903	Alexander I
• 1903–1918	Peter I
Prime Minister
• 1882–1883 (first)	Milan Piroćanac
• 1912–1918 (last)	Nikola Pašić
Legislature	National Assembly
Historical era	New Imperialism World War I
• Proclamation	6 March 1882
• May Coup	10 June 1903
• Treaty of London	30 May 1913
• Treaty of Bucharest	10 August 1913
• Corfu Declaration	20 July 1917
• Podgorica Assembly	28 November 1918
• Creation of Yugoslavia	21 December 1918
Currency	Serbian dinar
ISO 3166 code	RS
Preceded by Succeeded by 1882: Principality of Serbia 1918: Kingdom of Montenegro Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Today part of	Serbia Montenegro North Macedonia Kosovo[a]
^ The political status of Kosovo is disputed. Having unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008, Kosovo is formally recognised as a sovereign state by 104 UN member states (with another 10 states recognising it at some point but then withdrawing their recognition) and 89 states not recognizing it, while Serbia continues to claim it as a part of its own territory.

The Kingdom of Serbia (Serbian: Краљевина Србија, Kraljevina Srbija) was a country located in the Balkans which was created when the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Milan I, was proclaimed king in 1882. Since 1817, the Principality was ruled by the Obrenović dynasty (replaced by the Karađorđević dynasty for a short time). The Principality, under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire, de facto achieved full independence when the very last Ottoman troops left Belgrade in 1867. The Congress of Berlin in 1878 recognized the formal independence of the Principality of Serbia, and in its composition Nišava, Pirot, Toplica and Vranje districts entered the South part of Serbia.

In 1882, Serbia was elevated to the status of a kingdom, maintaining a foreign policy friendly to Austria-Hungary. Between 1912 and 1913, Serbia greatly enlarged its territory through engagement in the First and Second Balkan Wars – Sandžak-Raška, Kosovo Vilayet and Vardar Macedonia were annexed. At the end of World War I in 1918 it united with Vojvodina and the Kingdom of Montenegro, and in December 1918 it merged with the newly created State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs to form the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as Kingdom of Yugoslavia) under the continued rule of the Karađorđević dynasty.