6 January Dictatorship

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The 6 January Dictatorship was an authoritarian regime established in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929, when King Alexander I abolished the constitution, dissolved parliament, and centralized power under royal rule.

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Label Occurrences
6 January Dictatorship canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf authoritarian regime ⓘ
political regime ⓘ
abolishedInstitution National Assembly of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ⓘ
Vidovdan Constitution ⓘ
alsoKnownAs 6 January regime ⓘ
Šestojanuarska diktatura ⓘ
characterizedBy repression of political opposition ⓘ
strengthening of royal prerogatives ⓘ
suspension of democratic institutions ⓘ
constitutionalStatus constitution suspended ⓘ
parliament dissolved ⓘ
continent Europe ⓘ
country Kingdom of Yugoslavia ⓘ
endDate 1931-09-03 ⓘ
endedBy promulgation of 1931 Yugoslav Constitution ⓘ
followedBy 1931 Yugoslav Constitution ⓘ
governmentType royal dictatorship ⓘ
headOfState Alexander I of Yugoslavia ⓘ
historicalContext aftermath of World War I and creation of Yugoslav state ⓘ
ideology Yugoslav integral nationalism ⓘ
monarchism ⓘ
introducedPolicy administrative centralization ⓘ
ban on political parties ⓘ
censorship of the press ⓘ
suppression of regional autonomies ⓘ
languageOfGovernment Serbo-Croatian ⓘ
leader Alexander I of Yugoslavia ⓘ
legacy deepened national tensions within Yugoslavia ⓘ
legalInstrument royal proclamation of 6 January 1929 ⓘ
namedAfter 6 January 1929 ⓘ
officialNameOfState Kingdom of Yugoslavia ⓘ
opposedBy Communist Party of Yugoslavia ⓘ
Croatian Peasant Party ⓘ
politicalSystem one-man rule ⓘ
powerStructure centralized royal authority ⓘ
precededBy Vidovdan Constitution regime ⓘ
previousNameOfState Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ⓘ
primeMinister Petar Živković ⓘ
reasonForEstablishment ethnic and political tensions ⓘ
political instability in Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ⓘ
region Balkans ⓘ
securityApparatus Yugoslav gendarmerie ⓘ
significantEvent proclamation by King Alexander I on 6 January 1929 ⓘ
significantFigure Petar Živković ⓘ
startDate 1929-01-06 ⓘ
territorialReform creation of banovinas ⓘ
timePeriod interwar period ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Karađorđević → associatedWithEvent → 6 January Dictatorship ⓘ
Alexander the Unifier → implementedPolicy → 6 January Dictatorship ⓘ
Morava Banovina → establishedUnder → 6 January Dictatorship ⓘ