NationStates Jolt Archive

Kingdom of Serbia

Flag of Serbia (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Flaf_of_Serbia_%281882-1918%29.png)

Coat of Arms of Serbia (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Coat_of_arms_of_Serbia.svg)

Historical background

The First Serbian Uprising of 1804-1813, led by Đorđe Petrović (also known as Karađorđe or "Black George"), and the Second Serbian Uprising of 1815 resulted in the establishment of the Principality of Serbia. As it was semi-independent from the Ottoman Empire, it is considered to be the precursor of the formation of modern Serbia.

From 1815 to 1903, the Serbian state was ruled by the House of Obrenović, except from 1842 to 1858, when Serbia was ruled by Prince Aleksandar Karađorđević. In 1903, the House of Obrenović was replaced by the House of Karađorđević, who were descendants of Đorđe Petrović.

In the northern part of present-day Serbia that was ruled by the Austrian Empire, the local Serbs created in 1848 their autonomous region known as the Serbian Vojvodina. The region was in 1849 transformed into new Austrian crownland known as the Vojvodina of Serbia and Tamiš Banat. Although, the crownland was abolished in 1860, the Serbs from the Vojvodina region gained another opportunity to achieve their political demands in 1918.

The struggle for a modern society, human rights and a nation-state in Serbia lasted almost three decades and was completed with the adoption of the constitution on 15th February 1835. In 1876, Montenegro, Serbia, and Bosnia declared war against the Ottoman Empire and proclaimed their unification. However, the Treaty of Berlin of 1878, which was signed at the Congress of Berlin by the Great Powers, granted complete independence only to Serbia and Montenegro, leaving Bosnia and Raška to Austria-Hungary.

Head of State: Peter I

Head of Government: Nikola Pašić

Form of Government: Constitutional Monarchy

Seat of Government: Belgrade


Religion: Serbian Orthodox

Ethnicity: Ethnic Serbs

Currency: Serbian dinar

Population: 2.6 million

Tech Level: 4

Production Centers: 1 (Belgrade 4)

Resources: Coal 1

Food Production: 4

Serbian Army

Military Service

Total Frontline Strength: 80,000

Total Reserve Strength: 290,000

Total Strength: 370,000

Organisation

Regulars:
4 Mountain Divisions

Reserves:
2 Mountain Divisions
2 Reserve Infantry Corps
2 Fortress Corps
1 Reserve Militia Division


Chief of General Staff: Marshal Radomir Putnik

Serbian 1st Army= 2 Infantry Corps, 3 Mountain Division
Commander: General Zivojin Misic

Serbian 2nd Army= 2 Mountain Divisions, 1 Reserve Militia Corps
Commander: General Stepa Stepanović

Serbian 3rd Army= 2 Mountain Divisions, 2 Fortress Corps
Commander: General Petar Bojović

Economic Build

Serbian Build, 1912

Resources:
Production Center: 6 points (Belgrade)
Foreign Aid:
Total: 6 points

Market Economy

Market Economy National Effort

Growth: 1%

Domestic Spending:
Level III Social Spending [.78 points]

Secret Funding:
[.22 points]

Military Spending:
1 Mountain Division [2 points]
1 Reserve Militia Corps [1 point]

Military Upkeep:
Regulars:
4 Mountain Divisions [.4 points]

Reserves:
1 Mountain Division [.1 point]
2 Reserve Infantry Corps [.5 points]
2 Fortress Corps [1 points]

Total Spending:
6

May 5, 1912

Since the recent assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, Marshal Radomir Putnik has mobilized the rest of the army. This action is taken because a serious threat looms that the Austrian-Hungarian Empire might invade. Every reserve unit is called up and positioned along the AHE and Serbian border. They are stationed with Regular units and try to learn from them.

Northern Serbia:
2 Mountain Divisions, 2 Fortress Corps (Serbian 3rd Army)

Western Serbia:
2 Mountain Divisions, 1 Militia Corps (Serbian 2nd Army)

Northeast Serbia:
2 Infantry Corps, 3 Mountain Division (Serbian 1st Army)

OOC: Just a note, 10% of your pop is 260,000, but you have 370,000 men in your military...thats 110,000 men over the limit(the wartime limit).

OOC: Okay if you are going by that Serbian population is similar to the rl statics. Then how come in rl the Serbian First Army had a total of 500,000 men? If you want evidence then look here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Campaign_%28World_War_I%29

OOC; First of all, about wikipedia, I could go on right now and change that 500,000 figure to 50.

I'm just saying that according to the rules of E20, you are way over the manpower limit. If you think you should be exempt from the rules for one reason or another, take it up with GB.

OOC: Well in general you can't trust any website on the internet too. They could be lying and or just have the wrong information. But I will wait for GB to decide on this decision.

Official Austro-Hungarian Diplomatic message to Serbia:

It is clear from the statements and confessions of the criminal authors of the assassination, that the murder at Sarajevo was conceived at Belgrade, that the murderers received the weapons and the bombs with which they were equipped from Serbian officers and officials who belonged to the Narodna Odbrana, and, finally, that the dispatch of the criminals and of their weapons to Bosnia was arranged and effected under the conduct of Serbian frontier authorities.

The results brought out by the inquiry no longer permit the Imperial and Royal Government to maintain the attitude of patient tolerance which it has observed for years toward those agitations which center at Belgrade and are spread thence into the territories of the Monarchy. Instead, these results impose upon the Imperial and Royal Government the obligation to put an end to those intrigues, which constitute a standing menace to the peace of the Monarchy.

In order to attain this end, the Imperial and Royal Government finds itself compelled to demand that the Serbian Government give official assurance that it will condemn the propaganda directed against Austria-Hungary, that is to say, the whole body of the efforts whose ultimate object it is to separate from the Monarchy territories that belong to it; and that it will obligate itself to suppress with all the means at its command this criminal and terroristic propaganda. In order to give these assurances a character of solemnity, the Royal Serbian Government will publish on the first page of its official organ, the following declaration:

"The Royal Serbian Government condemns the propaganda directed against Austria-Hungary, that is to say, the whole body of the efforts whose ultimate object it is to separate from the Austro- Hungarian Monarchy territories that belong to it, and it most sincerely regrets the dreadful consequences of these criminal transactions.

"The Royal Serbian Government regrets that Serbian officers and officials should have taken part in the above-mentioned propaganda and thus have endangered the friendly and neighborly relations, to the cultivation of which the Royal Government had most solemnly pledged itself.

"The Royal Government, which disapproves and repels every idea and every attempt to interfere in the destinies of the population of whatever portion of Austria-Hungary, regards it as its duty most expressly to call attention of the officers, officials, and the whole population of the kingdom to the fact that for the future it will proceed with the utmost rigor against any persons who shall become guilty of any such activities, activities to prevent and to suppress which, the Government will bend every effort."

This declaration shall be brought to the attention of the Royal army simultaneously by an order of the day from His Majesty the King, and by publication in the official organ of the army.
The Royal Serbian Government will furthermore pledge itself:

1. to suppress every publication which shall incite to hatred and contempt of the Monarchy, and the general tendency of which shall be directed against the territorial integrity of the latter;

2. to proceed at once to the dissolution of the Narodna Odbrana to confiscate all of its means of propaganda, and in the same manner to proceed against the other unions and associations in Serbia which occupy themselves with propaganda against Austria-Hungary; the Royal Government will take such measures as are necessary to make sure that the dissolved associations may not continue their activities under other names or in other forms;

3. to eliminate without delay from public instruction in Serbia, everything, whether connected with the teaching corps or with the methods of teaching, that serves or may serve to nourish the propaganda against Austria-Hungary;

4. to remove from the military and administrative service in general all officers and officials who have been guilty of carrying on the propaganda against Austria-Hungary, whose names the Imperial and Royal Government reserves the right to make known to the Royal Government when communicating the material evidence now in its possession;

5. to agree to the cooperation in Serbia of the organs of the Imperial and Royal Government in the suppression of the subversive movement directed against the integrity of the Monarchy;

6. to institute a judicial inquiry against every participant in the conspiracy of the twenty-eighth of June who may be found in Serbian territory; the organs of the Imperial and Royal Government delegated for this purpose will take part in the proceedings held for this purpose;

7. to undertake with all haste the arrest of Major Voislav Tankosic and of one Milan Ciganovitch, a Serbian official, who have been compromised by the results of the inquiry;

8. by efficient measures to prevent the participation of Serbian authorities in the smuggling of weapons and explosives across the frontier; to dismiss from the service and to punish severely those members of the Frontier Service at Schabats and Losnitza who assisted the authors of the crime of Sarajevo to cross the frontier;

9. to make explanations to the Imperial and Royal Government concerning the unjustifiable utterances of high Serbian functionaries in Serbia and abroad, who, without regard for their official position, have not hesitated to express themselves in a manner hostile toward Austria-Hungary since the assassination;

10. to inform the Imperial and Royal Government without delay of the execution of the measures comprised in the foregoing points.


The Imperial and Royal Government awaits the reply of the Royal Government. Failure to meet these demands will result in a state of war and the destruction of Serbia as a sovereign nation, the salting of its land and the immediate execution all persons deemed a threat to Austro-Hungarian safety including but not limited to the Serbian Royal Family and all government officials.

Nikola Pašić sends a letter to Austrian Ambassador Giesl. The letter read as following:

The Serbian government has accepted all the terms that were listed in the ultimatum, but one term. The term that hasn't been accepted is the sixth term, to institute a judicial inquiry against every participant in the conspiracy of the twenty-eighth of June who may be found in Serbian territory; the organs of the Imperial and Royal Government delegated for this purpose will take part in the proceedings held for this purpose. Our government has thought it as unconstitutional and a violation of our sovereignty.

Spain sends it's support for Serbia.