The Karađorđevo ( sr-Cyrl, Карађорђево) estate lies 10 km north-west of

Bačka Palanka Bačka Palanka ( sr-cyrl, Бачка Паланка, ; hu, Palánka) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated on the left bank of the Danube. In 2011 the tow ...

, Serbia. The estate covers an area of and features a manor house, hunting ground, stud farm, agricultural facilities, and forest and wetland habitats. The property is state-owned, and managed by an establishment of the

Army of Serbia An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...

. Since its establishment as a state property of the

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in 1885, it has served as a representative hunting ground and resort for statesmen, high-ranking military officials and businessmen. A part of the property is protected as a special nature reserve, occupying the area of . The landscape features centuries-old oak and acacia woods, marshes, variety of flora and fauna species and a long distance from the nearest settlements. It is open to hunters and tourists throughout the year. Muzej_-_02

The property is also famous for its elite

stud farm A stud farm or stud in animal husbandry is an establishment for selective breeding of livestock. The word " stud" comes from the Old English ''stod'' meaning "herd of horses, place where horses are kept for breeding". Historically, documentation ...

, with a museum of horse racing. The farm was originally created in 1904, using horses from the famous Hungarian State Stud of Mezőhegyes. In 1971,

Josip Broz Tito Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; sh-Cyrl, Тито, links=no, ), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various positions from 1943 until his deat ...

convened a joint meeting of the leaders of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and the

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at the Karađorđevo estate which resulted in a suppression of the

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. The resort gained notoriety when the

Milošević–Tuđman Karađorđevo meeting On 25 March 1991, the presidents of the Yugoslav federal states SR Croatia and SR Serbia, Franjo Tuđman and Slobodan Milošević, met at the Karađorđevo hunting ground in northwest Serbia. The publicized topic of their discussion was the ong ...

was held there by presidents of Serbia

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and Croatia

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on the eve of the

Yugoslav Wars The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related Naimark (2003), p. xvii. ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that took place in the SFR Yugoslavia from 1991 to 2001. The conflicts both led up to and resulted from ...

, where they purportedly made a secret deal about

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