Prime Ministers of Yugoslavia - Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was created by the unification of the Kingdom of Serbia (the Kingdom of Montenegro had united with Serbia five days previously, while the regions of Kosovo, Vojvodina and Vardar Macedonia were parts of Serbia prior to the unification) and the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (itself formed from territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire) on 1 December 1918.

Until 6 January 1929, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was a parliamentary monarchy. On that day, King Alexander I abolished the Vidovdan Constitution (adopted in 1921), prorogued the National Assembly and introduced a personal dictatorship (so-called 6 January Dictatorship). He renamed the country Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 3 October 1929, and continued to rule as a de facto absolute monarch until his assassination on 9 October 1934, during a state visit to France. After his assassination, parliamentary monarchy was put back in place.

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was defeated and occupied after the German invasion on 17 April 1941. The monarchy was formally abolished on 29 November 1945.

In 1945 there were ten living former prime ministers. Out of these, Nikola Uzunović, Dušan Simović, Miloš Trifunović and Ivan Šubašić lived in the Democratic Federal Republic of Yugoslavia while Petar Živković, Bogoljub Jevtić, Milan Stojadinović, Dragiša Cvetković, Slobodan Jovanović and Božidar Purić remained in exile.

Yugoslav National Party People's Radical Party Yugoslav Radical Union Croatian Peasant Party Democratic Party Slovene People's Party Non-party

No.		Lifespan	Ethnicity	Term of office		Party
Prime Ministers
N/A	Nikola Pašić	1845–1926	Serb	1918	1918	People's Radical Party
1	Stojan Protić	1857–1923	Serb	1918	1919	People's Radical Party
2	Ljubomir Davidović	1863–1940	Serb	1919	1920	Democratic Party
3	Stojan Protić	1857–1923	Serb	1920	1920	People's Radical Party
4	Milenko Vesnić	1863–1921	Serb	1920	1921	People's Radical Party
5	Nikola Pašić	1845–1926	Serb	1921	1924	People's Radical Party
6	Ljubomir Davidović	1863–1940	Serb	1924	1924	Democratic Party
7	Nikola Pašić	1845–1926	Serb	1924	1926	People's Radical Party
8	Nikola Uzunović	1873–1954	Serb	1926	1927	People's Radical Party
9	Velimir Vukićević	1871–1930	Serb	1927	1928	People's Radical Party
10	Anton Korošec	1872–1940	Slovene	1928	1929	Slovene People's Party
11	Petar Živković	1879–1947	Serb	1929	1932	Yugoslav Radical Peasants' Democracy
12	Vojislav Marinković	1876–1935	Serb	1932	1932	Yugoslav Radical Peasants' Democracy
13	Milan Srškić	1880–1937	Serb	1932	1934	Yugoslav Radical Peasants' Democracy
14	Nikola Uzunović	1873–1954	Serb	1934	1934	Yugoslav Radical Peasants' Democracy
14	Nikola Uzunović	1873–1954	Serb	1934	1934	Yugoslav National Party
15	Bogoljub Jevtić	1886–1960	Serb	1934	1935	Yugoslav National Party
(15)	Bogoljub Jevtić	1886–1960	Serb	1934	1935	Yugoslav Radical Union
16	Milan Stojadinović	1886–1961	Serb	1935	1939	Yugoslav Radical Union
17	Dragiša Cvetković	1893–1969	Serb	1939	1941	Yugoslav Radical Union
18	Dušan Simović	1882–1962	Serb	1941	1942	None
19	Slobodan Jovanović	1869–1958	Serb	1942	1943	None
20	Miloš Trifunović	1871–1957	Serb	1943	1943	People's Radical Party
21	Božidar Purić	1891–1977	Serb	1943	1944	None
22	Ivan Šubašić	1892–1955	Croat	1944	1944	Croatian Peasant Party

Read more about this topic: Prime Ministers Of Yugoslavia

Famous quotes containing the words kingdom of, kingdom and/or yugoslavia:

“He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.””
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 13:31,32.

“For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places: all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 24:7,8.

“International relations is security, it’s trade relations, it’s power games. It’s not good-and-bad. But what I saw in Yugoslavia was pure evil. Not ethnic hatred—that’s only like a label. I really had a feeling there that I am observing unleashed human evil ...”
—Natasha Dudinska (b. c. 1967)