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Kingdom of the Serbs | Croats and Slovenes commemorative badge

Badge commemorating the Kingdom of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
With the end of the First World War, with so much sacrifice, pain, suffering, devastating loss, and other great costs, the Southern Slav people were united within the newly-formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which was declared on 1 December 1918 in Belgrade. The country would later be renamed as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929, and would last in that form until the Second World War, when the country became communist, with Western and Soviet political, covert, financial, and military backing. This pin badge was to commemorate this forming of a new country that, some would argue, was supposed to be the ideal outcome of the war for the peoples of the region. The badge reads, in Serbian Cyrillic, 'ЗА КРАЉА И ОТАЏБИНУ' (transliterates to 'Za Kralja i Otadzbinu', translating as 'For King and Fatherland'), and shows the date '1.XII.1918'.

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Špiro Vranješ

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1918-12-01

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eng

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1918-12-01

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1918-12-01

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1918-12-01

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Špiro Vranješ | europeana19141918:agent/610885ba9e90ab715a62cb0460ca10b5

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2020-02-25T08:01:00.898Z
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