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Milan I., King of Servia, born August 10–22, 1854, the son of Milos Obrenovič, grandson of Jefrem, half-brother of Prince Milos. Succeeded to the throne, as Prince Milan Obrenovič IV., by the election of the Servian national assembly, after the assassination of his uncle, Prince Michail Obrenovič III., June 10, 1868. Crowned Prince at Belgrade, and assumed the government, August 22, 1872; proclaimed King, March 6, 1882; married October 17, 1875, to Natalie, born 1859, daughter of Colonel Keschko, of the Russian Imperial Guard. Offspring of the union is a son, Alexander, born August 14, 1876.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Servia
1. Official Publications
Statistique de la Serbie. 4. Belgrade, 1875–80.
Report by Mr. Locock on the new law of Direct Taxation in Servia, in ‘Reports from H.M.’s Diplomatic and Consular Officers Abroad.’ Part i. 1885. Folio.
Reports on the Trade of Servia by Vice-Consul Baker, of Nisch, in ‘ Reports of H.M.’s Consuls,’1879–81.
Report by Vice-Consul Baker on the Trade and Commerce of Servia for 1882, in ‘Reports of H.M.’s Consuls.’ Parts IV. and X. 1883.
Report by Consul-General Schuyler on the Foreign Commerce of Servia in ‘Reports from the Consuls of the United States.’ No. 31. 1S83. Washington, 1883.
Report by the Belgian Minister to Servia, M. Emile de Borchgrave : Le Royaume de Serbie. Bruxelles, 1883.
2. Non-Official Publications
Balme (M.) La Principauté de Serbie. 8. Paris, 1880.
Denton (William). Servia and the Servians. London, 1862.
Grieve (W. T.), The Church and People of Servia. 8. London, 1864.
Jakchich (Vladimir). Recueil statistique sur les contrées serbes. 8. Belgrade, 1875.
Kanitz (F.), Serbien: Historisch-Ethnographische Reisestudien aus den Jahren, 1859–1868. 8, Leipzig, 1868.
Mijatovics (Elodie Lawton), The History of Modern Serbia. 8. London. 1872.
Paton (Andrew Archibald), Servia, the Youngest Member of the European Family. 8. London, 1845.
Thiers (Henri), La Serbie : son passé et son avenir. 8. Paris, 1862.
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Keltie, J.S. (1886). Servia. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230253155_14
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