Nikola Pašić for the Kingdom of Serbia and Ante Trumbić for the Yugoslav Committee
The Corfu Declaration (Serbo-Croatian: Krfska deklaracija, Крфска декларација) was an agreement between the prime minister of Serbia, Nikola Pašić, and the president of the Yugoslav Committee, Ante Trumbić, concluded on the Greek island of Corfu on 20 July 1917. Its purpose was to establish the method of unifying a future common state of the South Slavs living in Serbia, Montenegro and Austria-Hungary after the First World War. Russia's decision to withdraw diplomatic support for Serbia following the February Revolution, as well as the Yugoslav Committee's sidelining by the trialist reform initiatives launched in Austria-Hungary, motivated both sides to attempt to reach an agreement.
Pašić and Trumbić's positions were disparate. Pašić advocated for a centralist government, while Trumbić argued for a federal state, leaving significant powers to federal units and safeguarding national rights. The resulting declaration glossed over the matter of the system of government. As a compromise, it specified only that the common Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes would be a constitutional monarchy ruled by the currently reigning Serbian Karađorđević dynasty, deferring most questions to a future Constitutional Assembly. During the discussions, which lasted 35 days, Trumbić had little support for his view from the other members of the Yugoslav Committee, who were preoccupied with the threat posed by Italy, which had been promised territory under the 1915 Treaty of London.
The CorfuDeclaration (Serbo-Croatian: Krfska deklaracija, Крфска декларација) was an agreement between the prime minister of Serbia, Nikola Pašić, and...
on the Greek island of Corfu in 1917; they discussed the proposed unification of South Slavs and produced the CorfuDeclaration, outlining some elements...
Theatre of Corfu. During June and July 1917, the Yugoslav Committee met with the Serbian government in Corfu and, on 20 July, a declaration that laid the...
towards the formal creation of Yugoslavia accelerated after the 1917 CorfuDeclaration between the Yugoslav Committee and the government of the Kingdom of...
Yugoslavia, declaring the joint CorfuDeclaration in 1917, the meetings were held at the Municipal Theatre of Corfu. In November 1918, the National Council...
January 1916 to October 1918. On 20 July 1917, the signing of the CorfuDeclaration foreshadowed the unification of Montenegro with Serbia. On 26 November...
The Corfu incident (Greek: κατάληψη της Κέρκυρας, romanized: Katalipsi tis Kerkyras, Italian: crisi di Corfù) was a 1923 diplomatic and military crisis...
Declaration of Serbian war aims, establishment of the Yugoslav Committee to represent South Slavs living in Austria-Hungary and adoption of the Corfu...
unite all of the South Slav peoples into one state. In June 1917, the CorfuDeclaration was signed by Pašić and Trumbić promising Yugoslavia after the war...
Kingdom of Serbia government to give priority to the drafting of the CorfuDeclaration, with the Yugoslav Committee outlining the principles of unification...
Army retreated through Albania and were evacuated to the Greek island of Corfu, and in spring, 1916, they became part of a newly formed Salonika front...
The Corfu Channel case (French: Affaire du Détroit de Corfou) was the first public international law case heard before the International Court of Justice...
population. Serbia suffered the biggest casualty rate in World War I. The CorfuDeclaration was a formal agreement between the government-in-exile of the Kingdom...
tricolor with the simplified lesser coat of arms of Yugoslavia. The CorfuDeclaration mentions that individual Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian national...
Yugoslav Committee met with the Serbian Government in Corfu and on 20 July the CorfuDeclaration that laid the foundation for the post-war state was issued...
1953, p. 38. Keegan 1998, p. 53. Lowe 1994, p. 202. "Kriegserklärung [Declaration of War], Wiener Zeitung [Vienna Newspaper], July 28, 1914, Extraausgabe...
the Yugoslav Committee issued the text of an agreement known as the CorfuDeclaration which called for the formation of a multi-national state. The vast...
which was created in the final days of the war according to the 1917 CorfuDeclaration, and merged with the Kingdom of Serbia to form the Kingdom of Serbs...
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