  the house of karaÄorÄeviÄ  is a serbian and european dynastic family, founded by karaÄorÄe petroviÄ, the veliki voÅ¾d ("grand leader") of serbia in the early 1800s during the first serbian uprising. the dynasty name karaÄorÄeviÄ is derived from the name of the founder, ÄorÄe "karaÄorÄe" petroviÄ (karadjorde = "black george" and petrovic = "peter's son"), and is typically spelled "karadjordjevic" while pronunciation is roughly anglicized as "karageorgevitch," and was in previous times rendered also as kara-georgevitch. the relatively short-lived dynasty had an ongoing blood feud  with the obrenoviÄ dynasty after karaÄorÄe's assassination in 1817, which was apparently authorized by miloÅ¡ obrenoviÄ . the two houses subsequently traded the throne for several generations. in 1903, the serbian parliament chose karaÄorÄe's grandson, peter karaÄorÄe, then living in exile, for the throne of the kingdom of serbia. he was duly crowned as king peter i, and shortly before the end of world war i, representatives of the three peoples proclaimed a kingdom of the serbs, croats and slovenes with peter i as sovereign. in 1929, the kingdom was renamed yugoslavia, under alexander i, the son of peter i. in november 1945, the throne was lost when the league of communists of yugoslavia seized power, during the reign of peter ii. ==ancestry== according to some researchers, karaÄorÄe's paternal ancestors most likely migrated from the herzegovina-montenegro hills to Å umadija during the second great serb migration in 1737â1739 under the leadership of patriarch Å akabenta, as a result of the austrian-turkish war (in which serbs took part).http://www.novo
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