Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by the Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip and … See more

Three-quarters of the Yugoslav workforce was engaged in agriculture. A few commercial farmers existed, but most were subsistence peasants. Those in the south were especially poor, living in a hilly, infertile regi… See more

Immediately after 1 December proclamation, negotiations between the National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and the Serbian government resulted in agreement over the new government which was t… See more

The Kingdom nourished a close relationship with the Allies of World War I. This was especially the case between 1920 and 1934 with Yugoslavia's traditional supporters of Britain and France.
From 1920… See more

The small middle class occupied the major population centers and almost everyone else were peasants engaged in subsistence agriculture. The largest ethnic group were Serbs followed by Croats and Slovenes, as three consti… See more

• Peter I (1 December 1918 – 16 August 1921; Prince regent Alexander ruled in the name of the King)
• Alexander I (16 August 1921 – 9 October 1934)
• Peter II (9 October 1934 – 29 November 1945; in exile from 13/14 April … See more