Find A Grave - Serbia

Karadjordjevic, Tomislav b. January 19, 1928 d. July 12, 2000
Prince of Yugoslavia. He was the second son of King Aleksandar of Yugoslavia and the brother of King Petar II, who was Yugoslavia's last monarch. Tomislav followed in his brother's footsteps and came to England in 1936., for his education, going to Oundle and then on to Clare College, Cambridge. In November 1945, Tito established a communist regime in Yugoslavia and abolished the monarchy. He subsequently banned the Royal Family from returning to the country. Prince Tomislav bought himself a...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Church of St. George (Oplenac), Topola, Sumadija and Western, Serbia
Plot: Church crypt
Karadjordjevic, Zorka Ljubica b. December 23, 1864 d. March 16, 1890
Montenegro Royalty. Born Zorka Ljubica Petrovic-Njegoš, Princess of Montenegro, eldest of the twelve children of Nikola I Petrovic-Njegoš and Milena Vukotic. In 1883 she married Prince Petar Karadjordjevic who in 1903 became King of Serbia. They had three surviving children, including the future Alexander I of Yugoslavia. She died at age twenty-five in Centinje, Serbia. (Bio by: Iola)
Church of St. George (Oplenac), Topola, Sumadija and Western, Serbia
Kis, Danilo b. February 22, 1935 d. October 15, 1989
Writer. His mother was Montenegrin and his father Jewish, so he is most often described as a Serbian writer. After World War II, in which several members of his family were killed, he studied literature in Belgrade. He spent much of the rest of his life in Paris, where he died of cancer. Many of his works concentrate on wartime persecution of "small," innocent people, often though not exclusively Jews. His fiction learns a great deal from Latin American literature of the 20th century, but he...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Novo Groblje, Belgrade, City of Belgrade (Grad Beograd), Serbia
Plot: Tree-lined path of Giants, conh XI
Korac, Radivoje b. November 5, 1938 d. June 2, 1969
Basketball Player. Even today he is considered to be one of the best players in the history of the European basketball. Known as "Zucko," he was the best and most efficient player of the Yugoslav team in the 1960s. He won with the Yugoslav team six medals, five silver medals and one bronze. Playing for OKK Belgrade, versus Alvik Stockholm, in a match of European Champions' Cup in 1964 (OKK Belgrade won 155-57), "Zucko" scored an unheard of 99 points. He died as the result of a car accident in...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Novo Groblje, Belgrade, City of Belgrade (Grad Beograd), Serbia
Plot: Tree-lined path of Giants
Lazarevic, Laza K b. May 1, 1851 d. December 29, 1890
Author. He was a medical doctor and during his brief life published nine stories that enshrined him in Serbian literature as a writer who introduced the physiological story genre. He was often referred to as the “Serbian Turganev”. He was one of the best educated and most sophisticated people of his time, a distinguished doctor who wrote significant papers on medicine. He was also an admirer of the patriarchal tradition and its values, and in several of his stories he depicted family dramas in...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Novo Groblje, Belgrade, City of Belgrade (Grad Beograd), Serbia
Plot: Parcel 8, Grave 4, Class III
Milosavljevic, Ilija Kolarac b. 1789 d. October 18, 1878
Philanthropist. He bestowed his great estate to educated Serbian patriots to manage and to the people of Serbia for all time. The Kolarac National University was built from the Kolarac Charity Fund. The University remains a major cultural institution of Belgrade to date. (Bio by: Jelena)
Novo Groblje, Belgrade, City of Belgrade (Grad Beograd), Serbia
Plot: Grave 12, Class I
Milosevic, Slobodan b. August 20, 1941 d. March 11, 2006
Serbian President. He was the leader of what was left of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia consisting of only Serbia and tiny Montenegro. Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia , Bosnia and Herzegovina, fueled by nationalist forces had all departed via a domino chain of secessions. Milosevic presided over four Balkan overlapping regional wars in the 1990's that cost some 250,000 people their lifes. He died in his room in a detention center near the U.N. tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
Cause of death: Heart attack
Milosevic Family Residence, Pozarevac, Southern and Eastern, Serbia
Plot: Backyard plot
Misic, Zivojin Vojvoda b. January 19, 1855 d. January 20, 1921
General. Fought in two Serbian wars against the Ottoman Empire (1876 to 1878) and in two Balkan Wars in 1912 and 1913. General Zivojin Misic was proclaimed Duke after successfully ending the Battle of Kolubara on December 15th 1914, when the Austro-Hungarian army was pushed out of Serbia. He was promoted to Chief of Serbian General Staff in July 1918, while Franche D'Eperre was commander of the Salonika. (Bio by: Jelena)
Novo Groblje, Belgrade, City of Belgrade (Grad Beograd), Serbia
Plot: Parcel 28, Grave 42, Class II
Nemanja, Grand Zupan. Stefan b. 1132 d. February 12, 1200
Serbian royalty and Saint. Founder of Nemanjic dynasty. He was the Grand Duke of Raska, located in the central west region of the Balkans from 1166 or 1168 to 1196. He established control over the teritories of neighbouring Serb tribes except those in Bosnia and unified them into an independent state (medieval Serbia). He maintained good relations with the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus and his heirs. In 1186. Nemanja signed first Serbian trade agreement with city of Ragusa (modern...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Monastery Studenica, Kraljevo, Sumadija and Western, Serbia
Nemanjic, Stefan Radoslav b. 1192 d. 1235
Serbian king from 1228 to 1233 and Saint. Radoslav was the oldest son and heir of Stefan the First-Crowned. As ruler he was blind and relied on his father-in-law Theodore Angelus, despot of Epirus. When his father-in-law was beaten by the Bulgarians, Radoslav could no longer remain in power: The nobility dethroned him and placed on the throne his younger brother Vladislav. Disappointed in his family as well, Radoslav ended his life as a monk Jovan (John). (Bio by: Jelena)
Monastery Studenica, Kraljevo, Sumadija and Western, Serbia
Nemanjic I., Stefan Uros d. May 1, 1280
Serbian king from 1243 to 1276 and Saint. The third son of Stefan First-Crowned. His rule was longer more stable and more prosperous than those of his elder brothers Radoslav and Vladislav combined. He led a more independent foreign policy. The regional and international situation had objectively changed as well, as Uros I acceded to the throne in the wake the Tatar invasions; their devastation affected all of southeastern Europe, but was more pronounced in Hungary and Bulgaria. Economic growth...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Monastery Sopocani, Novi Pazar, Sumadija and Western, Serbia
Nemanjic, Stefan Dragutin d. March 12, 1316
Serbian King from 1276 to 1282 and Saint. Dragutin was the eldest son of King Stefan Uros I. He married Katarina, daughter of Hungarian king Stefan V. He was the leading hungarophile in Serbian politics, and because of this he came in conflict with his father, from whom he then usurped the throne in 1276 with help of the Hungarians. He began to attack the Byzantine Empire but had no success. In 1282 he broke his leg while hunting and became ill. He gave the throne to his younger brother Milutin...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Monastery Djurdjevi Stupovi, Novi Pazar, Sumadija and Western, Serbia
Nemanjic, Stefan Prvovencani d. September 24, 1228
Serbian king from 1217 to 1228 and Saint. He was the ruler of the Serbian state of Raska and managed to promote it to the status of kingdom and to establish a long lasting ruling dynasty of Nemanjic. Stefan Prvovencani (the First-Crowned) was the second eldest son of the Grand Duke Stefan Nemanja, younger brother of Vukan and older brother of Rastko Nemanjic (Saint Sava). He inherited the title of Grand Duke in 1196 when his father retired as a monk. The Byzantine emperor granted him the title...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Monastery Studenica, Kraljevo, Sumadija and Western, Serbia
Nemanjic I., Stefan Vladislav d. 1264
Serbian king from 1233 to 1242 and Saint. Second son of Stefan First-Crowned and son-in-law of Bulgarian tzar Ivan Asen II. He overthrew his older brother, king Radoslav and succeeded with help from his father-in-law. After death of his father-in-law, during Tatar invasion in Middle Europe he was overthrown by his younger brother Uros, who gave him to rule Zeta. (Bio by: Jelena)
Monastery Mileseva, Prijepolje, Sumadija and Western, Serbia
Nemanjic V., Stefan Uros b. September 1, 1336 d. December 4, 1371
Serbian King from 1346 to 1355 and co-ruler of his father tzar Dusan Silni from 1355 to 1371. Known in the epic tradition as Uros "the Weak" he was not capable of keeping his father's empire intact. The powerful landlords and magnates, enjoying their growing independence, were unwilling or unable to find guidance and cohesion in Dusan's heir. This situation was exploited by the Byzantine Empire, which took from him Serbian Greece and Hungary, which took hold of Macva and Belgrade. In his own...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Cathedral Church (Saborna Crkva), Belgrade, City of Belgrade (Grad Beograd), Serbia
Nemanjic, Stefan Uros IV Dusan b. 1308 d. December 20, 1355
Serbian Monarch. He created and was the only ruler of the Serbian Empire. Under his rule Serbia reached its territorial peak and was one of the larger states in Europe. Apart from territorial gains, in 1349 and 1354 he made and enforced Dušan's Code. He is also the only ruler from the house of Nemanjić not canonized as a saint. Dušan was the greatest Serb medieval ruler, under whom incredible impulse and strength of Serbs have expressed. He was buried in his monastery of Holy Archangels in...[Read More] (Bio by: Vizantinac)
Church of St. Marco, Belgrade, City of Belgrade (Grad Beograd), Serbia
Nikolic, Aleksandar b. October 28, 1924 d. March 12, 2000
Serbian Basketball Player and Coach. He was known as "the Father of Yugoslav Basketball." He played for Red Star Belgrade from 1947 to 1949, and coached the Yugoslav National Team in the 1961 European Championships. He won a silver medal, the first Yugoslav Medal in a major championship. In 1978 he won gold medals at the World Championship and at the European Championship in 1977. He was voted coach of the year for 1965 to 1966, and 1974 to 1975. He won four national championships , three...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Novo Groblje, Belgrade, City of Belgrade (Grad Beograd), Serbia
Nusic, Branislav b. October 8, 1864 d. January 19, 1938
Writer. He tried his hand at various genres - comedy, historical and bourgeois drama, and at story, novel, travelogue, and so on. His talent is best seen in his comedies and in his humorist prose. In his best comedies (The People's Representative, A Suspicious Person, The Cabinet Minister's Wife, The Deceased, and others) he unified all the virtues of his predecessors in this genre - the importance of Sterija's themes and the virtuosity of Trifkovic's dramatic technique. In many scenes in these...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Novo Groblje, Belgrade, City of Belgrade (Grad Beograd), Serbia
Plot: Parcel 29, Grave 29, Class II
Obrenovic V., Aleksandar b. August 2, 1876 d. May 29, 1903
King of Serbia. At the first elections held after the promulgation of the 1878 Constitution and abdication of King Milan the Radicals again won a majority.To preclude ex-King's Milan interference in affairs of state, the Radicals paid him a large sum of money in return for which he promised to stay away from Serbia until young King Alexander came of age. When king Alexander declared himself of age, April 1, 1893, overthrew the Regents, fired the Liberal government and brought the Radicals to...[Read More] (Bio by: Jelena)
Church of St. Marco, Belgrade, City of Belgrade (Grad Beograd), Serbia
Plot: Church crypt
Obrenovic, Draga b. September 23, 1867 d. May 29, 1903
Queen of Serbia. Daughter of Panta Lunjevica, married to engineer Svetozar Masin. She soon became widow and being a court lady of Queen Natalie, Draga Masin became mistress, and later (1900) wife of young Aleksandar I Obrenovic. She was murdered 1903 together with her husband King Alexander. (Bio by: Jelena)
Church of St. Marco, Belgrade, City of Belgrade (Grad Beograd), Serbia
Plot: Church crypt

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