karageorgevitches

Updated: June 6, 2025

The Shkupstina hastily summoned demanded the extradition of the two Karageorgevitches of Austria, whither they had fled, and failing to obtain it outlawed them and all their house for ever and ever, and declared their property forfeit to the State. Fifteen accomplices arrested in Serbia were found guilty and executed with a barbarity which roused European indignation.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

But the plot was a very genuine one, as I learnt beyond all doubt from my own observations, from details given me by relatives of some of the men implicated, and other Montenegrin sources. It was, in fact, the first round in the death-or-victory struggle for supremacy between the Karageorgevitches and the Petrovitches, the prize for which was to be the headship of Great Serbia.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

They are determined that, if such a confederation is brought about, Serbia shall not occupy the dictatorial position which Prussia did in Germany, and that the Karageorgevitches shall not play a rôle analogous to that of the Hohenzollerns.

E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell - The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean

"Family tradition comes first" says Vladan Georgevitch. "All the families of Serbia have, from the beginning, been followers of either the Karageorgevitches or the Obrenovitches." As time went on, the Obrenovitches became the choice of Austria, while Russia supported the Karageorges, and the puppets jigged as the Great Powers pulled the wires.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

Montenegro cared nothing for them. All she wanted was territory. Great Serbia was discussed with singular cold-bloodedness, one of the schoolmasters saying at the dinner-table that it would never be "made till the Petrovitches and the Karageorgevitches are sent after the Obrenovitches." And King Nikola's tactics were severely criticised.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

Serbia throughout the nineteenth century was rent by the ceaseless blood-feud between the Karageorgevitches and the Obrenovitches, a history bloody as that of the Turkish Sultans, the results of which are not yet over one that has so largely influenced the fate of yet unborn generations that we must understand its outlines in order to follow modern events.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

Such was the history of Serbia up to the date when I plunged into it and found it on the verge of a crisis. For Leagues within a State are ever pernicious to Monarchic. Early in 1903 I received an invitation to stay with certain of the partisans of the Karageorgevitches in Serbia. The "something" that was to happen had not yet come to pass.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

The Petrovitch ambition to form and rule over Great Serbia was thus, we see, actually elaborated long before Serbia had obtained independence and before the Karageorgevitches had even been heard of. This explains much that has since happened.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

The Karageorgevitches having been exiled by the unanimous vote of the Shkupstina for ever till next time Milan, cousin of the murdered Michel, succeeded him on the throne at the age of fourteen. And there was a Regency till 1872. Milan was a handsome dashing fellow with not too much brain a typical, boastful, immoral Serb officer.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

Near the door of the Monastery of Cetinje is the grave of one of the Karageorgevitches and the priest who showed it me told that the families Petrovitch and Karageorgevitch had been on very friendly terms.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle