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People's Radical Party
The People's Radical Party ( sr, Народна радикална странка, Narodna radikalna stranka, abbr. НРС or NRS) was the dominant ruling party of Kingdom of Serbia and later Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from the late 1880s until 1928. History The founding of the party was related to the circle of Serbian youth followers of Svetozar Marković and Nikola Pašić in Zurich. The leaders of this group proposed a political program in which they called for: *change of constitution *freedom of the press and open politics *judicial independence *reform of the education system *enhanced local self-government The first main assembly of the People's Radical Party was in July 1882 in Kragujevac. The Radical's program, inspired by French Radicalism, was adopted, and Nikola Pašić was elected as the president of the central committee. The Radical Party had its own daily (''Samouprava'', "Self-Government"), which was critical of the ruling monarchy, demanding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikola Pašić
Nikola Pašić ( sr-Cyrl, Никола Пашић, ; 18 December 1845 – 10 December 1926) was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and diplomat who was a leading political figure for almost 40 years. He was the leader of the People's Radical Party and, among other posts, was twice a mayor of Belgrade (1890–91 and 1897), several times Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia (1891–92, 1904–05, 1906–08, 1909–11, 1912–18) and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918, 1921–24, 1924–26). He was an important politician in the Balkans, who, together with his counterparts, like Eleftherios Venizelos in Greece, managed to strengthen their emergent national states against foreign influence and interference, most notably those of Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire. Early life Pašić was born in Zaječar, Principality of Serbia. According to Slovenian ethnologist Niko Zupanič, Pašić's ancestors migrated from the Tetovo region in the 16t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetozar Marković
Svetozar Marković ( sr-Cyrl, Светозар Марковић, ; 9 September 1846 – 26 February 1875) was a Serbian political activist, literary critic and socialist philosopher. He developed an activistic anthropological philosophy with a definite program of social change. He was called the Serbian Nikolay Dobrolyubov. Early life Marković was born in the town of Zaječar on 9 September 1846, the son of a police clerk. Marković's childhood was spent in the village of Rekovac and then the town of Jagodina. The family moved to Kragujevac in 1856. He reached adolescence at about the time Mihailo Obrenović became the Prince of Serbia. In 1860 he began to study at the gymnasium in Belgrade and in 1863 at the ''Velika škola'' of Belgrade, the highest educational body in Serbia at that time, founded in 1808. While at the '' Velika škola'' he became interested in literature and politics, falling under the influences of Vuk Karadžić and Vladimir Jovanović, a leadin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raša Milošević
Raša Milošević (1851–1937) was a Serbian politician and one of the leaders and a theorist of the People's Radical Party. His wife Dr. Draginja Draga Ljočić Milošević was the first female physician in Serbia. Biography He was educated in Belgrade and St. Petersburg in Imperial Russia. He was seen as the major theorist of the People's Radical Party until 1883. He was a National Assembly deputy from 1880 to 1883, a trying time, and was sentenced to death for masterminding the Timok Rebellion, but received clemency prior to execution. In 1886 he served as the Minister of the national economy in multiple administrations, however, in the 1890s he withdrew from active politics, keeping the position of CEO of the national monopoly agency. Milošević contributed to all Radical publications, wrote numerous articles, important brochures, and his political memoirs appeared in 1923. Momčilo Ninčić Momčilo Ninčić ( – 23 December 1949) was a Serbian and Yugoslav politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazar Dokić
Lazar Dokić (Serbian Cyrillic: Лазар Докић; 27 September 1845 – 13 December 1893) was a Serbian doctor, professor of anatomy, politician, academic and a tutor to king Alexander Obrenović. He served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia as well as Minister of Education and Religious Affairs from 1 April to 4 June 1893 then to 16 June to 5 December 1893. Biography Dokić finished elementary school and gymnasium in Belgrade and studied medicine in Vienna and Prague, back in Serbia he worked as a county doctor in Užice for fifteen years. During the Serbo-Turkish War he was a military doctor in the Šumadija Corps. After the war, he was Professor of Anatomy, Zoology and Physiology at the University of Belgrade. In 1883 he became a personal doctor of the Royal family and tutor of the young heir Crown Prince Alexander Obrenović. Known as a pro-Obrenović Radical, Dokić served as the President of the State Council (1889 onwards). On 1 April 1893, the sixteen-yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranko Tajsić
Ranko Tajsić (1843–1903) was a Serbian politician and people's tribune. He was a radical-socialist Member of Parliament, first elected to the National Assembly in 1874, and was one of the founders and vice-president of the People's Radical Party. Biography Unlike other radicals, he voted against the draft of the new constitution of 1888 at a session of the Constituent Committee together with Dimitrije Katić. He fell as the last victim of the Obrenović absolutism. He was sentenced to death after an assassination attempt on Milan Obrenović on Saint John's Eve, 1899 (in Serbian known as ''Ivanjdan'' according to Old Calendar), but the sentence was not carried out because Tajšić was already in exile in Montenegro under the protection of the royal family there. After an amnesty, he returned to Serbia where he died in 1903. Broken down by persecution, trials, emigration, exhausted by illness and affliction, Tajsić is remembered to have stood upright in defense of freedom, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andra Nikolić
Andra Nikolić ( Belgrade, Principality of Serbia, 5 October 1853 — Paris, France, 28 September 1918) was a Serbian politician, jurist, writer, literary historian and academic. Biography His parents were Josif Nikolić, a municipal clerk, and Natalija Marković (maiden name) the sister of politician Stefan Marković. Andra was brought up in a typical Serbian, late 19th-century middle-class environment. After completing his gymnasium, he studied law at ''Visoka škola'' ( Grandes écoles) in Belgrade where he graduated in 1873. His first published work "The Economic State of Serbia in 14th-Century" brought him immediate recognition and fame. After entering the civil service, he formed an alliance with Stojan Protić and Lazar Paču and the trio became one of the closest political associates and personal colleagues in the Serbian government. The other leaders consisted of Nikola Pašić, Alexander (Aca) Stanojević, and Lazar Paču. Nikolić continued to keep good relations w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jovan Djaja
Jovan Djaja (1846–1928) was a Serbian professor, journalist, translator and politician. He was one of the earliest leaders of the People's Radical Party. Biography Jovan Djaja was born in a village in the vicinity of Dubrovnik. His Serbian parents were members of the Serb Catholic circle in the town. He was a Dubrovnik high school graduate who studied philosophy at the University of Vienna before settling in Belgrade. It was there that he first began to demonstrate an interest in politics, but did not join Radical Party until 1883 when they were on the verge of becoming prominent. An important moment in the transformation of the party's organization occurred during the ''Timocka buna'' of 1883, which was a setback not only for the party but put its survival at risk. The Timok Rebellion was a popular, peasant uprising, provoked by King Milan Obrenović's attempt to disarm the population as part of ongoing reform in the army. Milan ordered the entire executive board of the Radica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazar Paču
Lazar Paču (Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Serbian Cyrillic: Лазар Пачу; 1 March 1855 – 12 October 1915) was a Serbian doctor and politician, serving as the Minister of Finance multiple times. Biography Lazar Paču was of Aromanians, Aromanian descent. He came from a family who moved from south to Austria-Hungary with Arsenije III Čarnojević, from Blace. His father Stefan was a priest in the small town of Čurug, and the mother was related to Miloš Cvetić, a well-known drama writer and actor. He finished high school in Novi Sad, started medical studies in Zürich, Zurich, where he joined the Mikhail Bakunin, Bacunin's circle. It can be said that in that period he had very strong anarchist ideas. There he also met Svetozar Marković, Vasa Pelagić and the future leadership of the People's Radical Party, Radical Party: Nikola Pašić, Pero Todorović and Petar Velimirović. He also met Lenka Zaho, whom he later married in Belgrade. In those years, he especially liked t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sima Lozanić
Simeon Milivoje Lozanić and Simeon "Sima" Lozanić ( sr-cyr, Сима Лозанић) (1847 – 1935) was a Serbian chemist, president of the Serbian Royal Academy, the first rector of the University of Belgrade, minister of foreign affairs, minister of industry and diplomat. At the '' Grandes écoles'' and later when it transformed into the University of Belgrade he taught chemistry and electrosynthesis. Early years and education Simeon Lozanić was born February 24, 1847 in Belgrade, Serbia. He completed legal studies in Belgrade, studied chemistry under Professor Johannes Wislicenus in Zürich and later with Professor August Wilhelm von Hofmann in Berlin. He earned his doctorate degree on March 19, 1870 at the University of Zurich. He was a professor at the "Great School" from 1872 and at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy until 1924. Career When the University of Belgrade was founded in 1905, he was among the first eight full-time professors who selected the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pera Velimirović
Pera may refer to: Places * Pera (Beyoğlu), a district in Istanbul formerly called Pera, now called Beyoğlu ** Galata, a neighbourhood of Beyoğlu, often referred to as Pera in the past * Pêra (Caparica), a Portuguese locality in the district of Setúbal * Pera (San Giovanni di Fassa), an Italian hamlet in the municipality of San Giovanni di Fassa, in Trentino * Pêra (Silves), a Portuguese parish in the district of Faro in the Algarve * Pera Orinis, a village in Cyprus Other uses * Pera (surname) * The '' Pera'', a ship of the Dutch East India Company * Peda or Pera, a dessert in Pakistan and India * ''Pera'' (plant), a plant genus in the family Peraceae * Public Employees Retirement Association, the name of several public employee pension plans in the United States * Peripheral ERA, a baseball statistic * Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (PERA) is a 1990s reference model for enterprise architecture, developed by Theodore J. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pera Todorovic
Pera may refer to: Places * Pera (Beyoğlu), a district in Istanbul formerly called Pera, now called Beyoğlu ** Galata, a neighbourhood of Beyoğlu, often referred to as Pera in the past * Pêra (Caparica), a Portuguese locality in the district of Setúbal * Pera (San Giovanni di Fassa), an Italian hamlet in the municipality of San Giovanni di Fassa, in Trentino * Pêra (Silves), a Portuguese parish in the district of Faro in the Algarve * Pera Orinis, a village in Cyprus Other uses * Pera (surname) * The '' Pera'', a ship of the Dutch East India Company * Peda or Pera, a dessert in Pakistan and India * ''Pera'' (plant), a plant genus in the family Peraceae * Public Employees Retirement Association, the name of several public employee pension plans in the United States * Peripheral ERA, a baseball statistic * Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (PERA) is a 1990s reference model for enterprise architecture, developed by Theodore J. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kragujevac
Kragujevac ( sr-Cyrl, Крагујевац, ) is the fourth largest city in Serbia and the administrative centre of the Šumadija District. It is the historical centre of the geographical region of Šumadija in central Serbia, and is situated on the banks of the Lepenica River. , the city proper has a population of 150,835, while its administrative area comprises a total of 179,417 inhabitants. Kragujevac was the first capital of modern Serbia and the first constitution in the Balkans, the Sretenje Constitution, was proclaimed in the city in 1838. A unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service was located there in World War I. During the Second World War, Kragujevac was the site of a massacre by the Nazis in which 2,778 Serb men and boys were killed. Modern Kragujevac is known for its large munitions (Zastava Arms) and automobile (FCA Srbija) industries, as well as its status as an education centre housing the University of Kragujevac, one of the region's largest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
