Instead of an introduction.
To know your history is to grow up.
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After almost three and a half centuries since the fall of Smederevo (1459), since the collapse of the medieval Serbian state, the Serbs in 1804. years – under the leadership of the leader Karađorđe Petrović-rose up. As the great German historian Leopold von Ranke put it, the Serbian revolution began, but also the inseparable connection of the Serbs with the Ruling House of Karađorđević.
The karađorđevićs ruled Serbia and Yugoslavia – including the leadership of Karađorđe from 1804. by 1813. a total of 67 years. However, each of the rulers of the House of Karađorđević spent a good part of his life in exile.
Karađorđe had been out of Serbia since 1813. by 1817. year. Prince Alexander, his youngest son, will be forced to leave Serbia on two occasions: from 1813. by 1839. and from 1858. by 1885. years until his death. King Peter I The Liberator was in exile for 45 years, from 1858. to