Konak in Gornja Crnuca: The Court of Prince Milos Obrenovic

2022

The objective of this study is to analyze and present the evolution, specificities, and changes regarding the role of the head of state in Serbia and in the states of which Serbia was part in the period from the First Serbian Uprising in 1804 until the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991. During this period, Serbia had 11 rulers-three of whom lost their lives due to assassinations, two of whom were deposed, and two of whom abdicated-and two dynasties. More than 15 constitutions and constitutional acts were adopted shaping, among other issues, the position of the head of state. This period comprises constitutional issues of three countries-the Principality/Kingdom of Serbia, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia/Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in which the position of the head of state continuously changed due to the will of the ruler to strengthen it and the attempt of other institutions to limit it. Furthermore, six coups d'état were executed and the state also passed through phases of dictatorship or autocracy. The content of this paper follows the form of state and its modifications in a periodic fashion.

Serbian Studies 21/2 (2007) [publication date 2010]: 161-180., 2010

Belgrade has been devastated and redeveloped countless times. Various cultures, nations and conquerors left different urban matrices and physical structure. The groundwork for conceptualization and research of the urban matrix as an essential element of Belgrade’s urban morphology are graphic presentations - the old maps and plans 4 . Appreciating strategic significance Belgrade had up till 19 th century, they were mainly elaborating Belgrade Fortress area, while civil settlement – the Borough inside the Trench, a small typically oriental town (Kurtović Folić, 2000, pp. 15-21) was presented in general sketches. This paper deals with breakthrough conceptions about planned construction of Belgrade inside and outside of the fortress moat from the beginning of the 19 th till the beginning of the 20 th century. The ruling period of Prince Miloš Obrenović was especially emphasized, when planned construction of the new, geometrically regulated Belgrade settlement in Western Vračar (outside the Trench) started and was supposed to be connected with the city center of the Serbian Belgrade (inside the Trench) around the current Saborna church, via two already existing streets – Abadžijska Street and Fišeklijska Street. Prince Miloš in 1815., obtained from Marašli Ali Pasha the Savamala area with the formed village on so called slope, that was soon to be destroyed and set on fire upon his order, with the goal of building “a new Serbian Belgrade”. (Krasojević, 2004) The expelled landowners gained the opportunity to settle down on the Danube side, in the village of Palilula. In the third and the fourth decade of the 19 th century there started the planned guidance of population of respective urban areas and regulation of some tracings in Savamala and Terazije as far as the Batal Mosque, forming on the slopes of Savamala and Western Vračar a new part of Serbian Belgrade, beyond the Trench with several new “čaršija’’. (Škalamera, 1974. pp.9-14) In the period 1835-38, Prince Miloš began developing some prominent edifices and institutions of the restored Province of Serbia in this Belgrade area, and his son, Prince Mihailo Obrenović, continued with the development of this area after 1860.

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This thesis looks at the construction of New Belgrade as an urban history narrative for the history of Yugoslavia. This is a study of the history of place and space, in conjunction with the history of Tito's Yugoslavia. Beginning with the foundation for the new city, during the interwar period, the first chapter establishes an understanding of the purpose of the place during the Kingdom era. It then looks at the effect of the Second World War, and the establishment of the communist/socialist era under Josip Broz Tito. The following chapter looks at the Tito era from the split from the Cominform. It is an analysis of the creation of New Belgrade under Tito, and how it is representative of Yugoslavia’s differentiation from the Soviet Bloc. The final chapter examines New Belgrade following the Tito era, the impact of the collapse of Yugoslavia, NATO intervention and the rebuilding of New Belgrade in the 21st century.

Austrian History Yearbook, 1996

The idea that the South Slavs constituted a single ethnic whole has long received considerable support in Croat intellectual circles. Ljudevit Gaj's Illyrian movement of the 1830s and 1840s, which represented the initial stage of the Croat national awakening, recognized this idea and attempted to construct a common culture for all South Slavs under the neutral Illyrian name. Given the increased pressure of Magyarization in the first half of the nineteenth century, the linguistic and regional particularisms of the Croats resulting from the breakup of Croat lands in the medieval and early modern periods, and the presence of a considerable Serb minority in the Croat lands, the Illyrian idea became a necessity. It enabled the “awakeners” to overcome the particularisms that complicated the creation of a national consciousness among the Croats and deeply implanted in this consciousness the commonality of the South Slavs. Illyrianism eventually became a political force that found expre...

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Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe