Postcards from the serie "Balkan Alliance", „У слози је спас“" (“In consent lies the redemption”) issued during the First Balkan War.
On the postcards:
King Ferdinand I, Bulgaria (26.02.1861 - 09.10.1948)
Born in Vienna as Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, he ruled Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918.
Nikola I Petrovic, Montenegro (19.10.1840 – 02.03.1921)
Nikola I Mirkov Petrovic Njegos was born in Njegushi Montenegro. He ruled Montenegro as “Knez” prince from 1860 to 1910 and he was the first and only king of Montenegro from 1910-1918. He died in France 1921 when Montenegro was part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
Petar I Karadjordjevic, Serbia (11.07.1844 - 16.08.1921)
Petar I Karadjordjevic was king of Serbia from 1903 to 1918 and King of the Kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenes from 1918 to 1921.
George I, Greece (12.24.1845 - 03.18.1913)
George was the first king of Greece (born Prince William of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg), son of Danish King Christian IX. When the Danish prince ascended the Greek throne, he was only 17 years. In 1867 George I married Olga Konstantinovna (1851-1926) of the Russian Romanov dynasty.
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