The Kingdom of Serbia (Serbian: Краљевина Србија, Kraljevina Srbija), was established when Milan IV Obrenović, was crowned King of Serbia on 6 March 1882. The kingdom endured two Balkan Wars, and invasion from Austria-Hungary which subsequently resulted in the First World War until 1918 when it merged with the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs to form the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as Yugoslavia) under Peter I Karađorđević.
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