Belgrade Guide
Highlights
The independance of Serbia
In 1876 the Turkish flag was taken down from rampart of the old Belgrade town and all bound with the Turkish imperia were cut. Soon after, Serbia, Montenegro, and Russia join in the war against Turkey, and in January 1878 Turkish imperia proclaims independence of Serbia with enlarged territory, independence of Romania, enlarging the territory of Montenegro, forming new Bulgarian principality and the autonomy of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In 1882 Serbia becomes the kingdom, Mihailo Obrenović the king, Belgrade kingdom’s capital, and in the following years it gets first telephone lines, train station, plumbing, electric street lights, tramway, and in 1903, after the assassination of Alexander Obrenović, a new king – Peter I Karađorđević.
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