Word: kraljevina
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Carefully His Majesty enfolded the second straw in his purse. When he returned to the royal castle at Belgrade, he gave it to a lad of three, towheaded, bonny, already a personage. He was Peter Alexander's eldest son, heir to the throne of the Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata, Slovenaea (the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes: Jugoslavia...
...Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata, Slovenaca, which is Serbian for the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugo-Slavia), has reason to be proud of Peter Kara-Georgeovitch, for he is Crown Prince of Yugo-Slavia...
...founder with the Greek leader, Eleutherios Venizelos, of the Balkan League, and with him hatched many a scheme for extending the frontiers of Serbia and Greece. With the signing of peace in 1918 his dreams were realized. Serbia grew into the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata, i Slovenaca), but he found himself faced with opposition from Montenegrins and Croatians, who strongly objected to this arbitrary disposition, to some extent upon religious grounds. Old Serbia is preponderantly Orthodox Catholic; Croatia and Montenegro preponderantly Roman Catholic...
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