Order of Karađorđe's Star

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Order of Karađorđe's Star
Орден Карађорђеве звезде
Dynastic order (since 1945)
Established1904
EligibilitySerbian citizens
Awarded forSpecial merits and successes in representing Serbia and its citizens (State order)
StatusActive
Classes1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade
(Republic of Serbia)
Grand Cross, Grand Officer, Commander, Officer, Knight/Dame
(H. of Karađorđević)
Statistics
First induction1904 (Kingdom of Serbia)
1945 (House of Karađorđević)
2010 (Republic of Serbia)
Precedence
Next (higher)Order of the Serbian Flag
(Republic of Serbia)
Order of St. Prince Lazar
(H. of Karađorđević)
Next (lower)Order of the White Eagle with the swords
(Republic of Serbia)
Order of the White Eagle
(H. of Karađorđević)

  • 1st class

  • 2nd class

  • 3rd class

Ribbon bars
of the state order

The Order of Karađorđe's Star (

state order of Serbia. The order is awarded by the decree of the President of the Republic on special occasions, typically at the ceremonies held on the Statehood Day
. It is awarded for special merits and successes in representing Serbia and its citizens. It can be awarded to individuals and institutions.

Order of Karađorđe's Star is also a dynastic order, with appointments currently made by Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia.

Originating in the Kingdom of Serbia it was initially awarded exclusively to Serbian citizens in return for services rendered to the Serbian state and the Serbian people. During the Balkan Wars and World War I, the order was mostly awarded for acts of bravery on the battlefield. The post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia retained the order, and it was awarded by the Yugoslav government-in-exile until the end of World War II. Following the war, the monarchy was abolished and a communist government came to power suppressing the order along with other monarchist symbols, although it continued as a dynastic order, awarded by the Karađorđević family in exile.

History

The Order of Karađorđe's Star was instituted by the

Miloš Obrenović had launched the Second Serbian Uprising. The Order of Miloš the Great had to be replaced as it was named after Obrenović himself.[1]

Initially, the Order of Karađorđe's Star was categorized as a senior state award, and organized into four classes. The Grand Cross of Karađorđe's Star, the highest class, consisted of a badge of the Order on a sash and breast star; a Grand Officer of Karađorđe's Star was decorated with a badge necklet and a slightly smaller breast star; a Commander of Karađorđe's Star was only awarded a badge necklet; and the recipient of the Order's fourth class, the Officer of Karađorđe's Star, would receive a small triangular chest ribbon.[2] The Order was usually awarded for services to the Karađorđević dynasty, the Serbian state or the Serb people, while Karađorđević princes received a Grand Cross at baptism. Recipients included both soldiers and civilians, though until 1906 only Serbian citizens were permitted to receive the award.[1]

During the

King Ferdinand I of Romania.[1]

Flora Sandes was recipient of the order received in 1916. She fought in the Royal Serbian Army during World War I and was the only British woman to officially serve as a soldier in the conflict

The

Communist-led Yugoslav Partisans for most of the occupation period. Such a discrepancy can best be seen in the case of Đujić, who was given the order for displaying "gallantry in the face of the enemy", and subsequently celebrated receiving it at an Italian general's headquarters.[11] In Jevđević's case, the Order was given in 1943 for his services to the Serb population of Herzegovina during a series of Ustaše massacres, but Mihailović had news of the award suppressed, because Jevđević had visited Rome to plan an anti-communist offensive with the Italians and his forces had carried out several massacres of non-Serbs over the previous several years.[10]

After the war, Yugoslavia came under the rule of communist president Josip Broz Tito, and Karađorđević-era medals and orders were replaced by non-royal decorations, such as the Order of the People's Hero.[14] In the 1990s, the Republika Srpska instated its own decoration also called the Order of Karađorđe's Star, though this is not to be confused with the decoration historically awarded by Serbian state and the Karađorđević dynasty.[1][a]

In 2010, the order was reinstated as an official state order, being third highest state decoration.[14] In 2012, tennis player Novak Djokovic became the first person to receive the Order after it was reinstated.[17][18] In 2020, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke received the order.[19]

Design

The order comes in either gold or silver depending on class, and the obverse features a white enameled cross pattée with gilt rays protruding from each of the arms. The rays are intersected diagonally by a pair of sabres when the recipient is awarded an Order "with swords". Dznastic orders contain a blue medallion at the centre depicting a Serbian cross with a fire-steel at each corner, with the words "For Faith and Freedom, 1804" etched into the small circle in the middle of the cross. The reverse of these orders contains a red medallion depicting a white eagle, with the words "Peter I, 1904" written around it. The bravery medals awarded from 1915 onwards were almost identical to the orders awarded before, save for the crossed swords being present on all of them regardless of class. Such orders also lacked the phrase etched into the obverse of the older ones and the date 1904 on the reverse, which marked the centenary of the First Serbian Uprising. Instead, they merely had King Peter's name on the obverse beside the year when the order was bestowed.[2]

Ranks

State Order of Karađorđe's Star has three classes.

1st class 2nd class 3rd class

Notable recipients

Tennis player Novak Djokovic was the first person to receive the Order after its reinstatement in 2010

1st class

2nd class

3rd class

Footnotes

  1. Željko Ražnatović ("Arkan").[16]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Serbian Royal Family 1997.
  2. ^ a b c Clarke 2000, p. 218.
  3. ^ Voice of Serbia 17 July 2014.
  4. ^ The New York Times 31 December 1916.
  5. ^ Finder 2000, p. 249.
  6. ^ Smith 2000, p. 8.
  7. ^ Banac 1984, p. 150.
  8. ^ City of Belgrade 25 December 2003.
  9. ^ Maclean 1957, p. 210.
  10. ^ a b Roberts 1973, p. 68.
  11. ^ a b Maclean 1949, pp. 354–55.
  12. ^ Dedijer 1946, p. 387.
  13. ^ Dedijer 1990, p. 17.
  14. ^ a b Glas javnosti 6 May 2010.
  15. ^ Hoare 2007, p. 354.
  16. ^ Demaria & Wright 2006, p. 94.
  17. ^ Balkan Insight 14 February 2012.
  18. ^ CNN 16 February 2012.
  19. ^ Serbia, RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of. "Uručena odlikovanja povodom Dana državnosti". www.rts.rs. Retrieved 2020-02-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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