* Today the former palace houses the Belgrade City Assembly on Dragoslava Jovanovića.

* The author of the text on which Načertanije was based was the Czech František Zach, whose template envisaged a federal organization of the South Slav peoples. But where Zach had written ‘South Slav’, Garašanin substituted ‘Serb’ or ‘Serbian’. This and other changes transformed Zach’s cosmopolitan vision into a more narrowly focused Serbian nationalist manifesto.

* Among those who came to watch the antics of the deputies was the young drifter Adolf Hitler. Between February 1908 and the summer of 1909, when Czech obstructionism was at its height, he was often to be found in the visitors’ gallery. He would later claim that the experience had ‘cured’ him of his youthful admiration for the parliamentary system.

* Under the terms of the Reinsurance Treaty, both powers agreed to observe neutrality should either country be involved in a war with a third country; but they also agreed that neutrality would not apply if Germany attacked France or Russia attacked Austria-Hungary.

* Kokovtsov resigned as minister of finance in 1905 but resumed the office in November 1905 and retained it until February 1914. From 1911, he was both minister of finance and prime minister.

* Millerand’s meaning here is uncertain, since there was no Austrian ‘occupation’ of Serbia in 1912: he is probably referring to the annexation of Bosnia, in which case, the term reported here may be Ignatiev’s rather than Millerand’s.