Place:Revolutionary Serbia

Short description: Self-proclaimed rebel state in southeast Europe between 1804 and 1813

Revolutionary Serbia Устаничка Србија Ustanička Srbija
1804–1813
Flag Coat of arms
Revolutionary Serbia within Europe, 1812
Status	Self-proclaimed rebel sovereign state
Capital	Topola Belgrade
Official languages	Serbian
Religion	Serbian Orthodoxy (official)
Demonym(s)	Serbian, Serb
Government	Not specified
Grand Vožd
• 1804–1813	Karađorđe
President of the Governing Council
• 1805–1807	Matija Nenadović
• 1811–1813	Karađorđe
History
• Established	1804
• First Serbian Uprising	1804–1813
• Ičko's Peace	July 1806–January 1807
• Russo-Serbian Alliance	10 July 1807
• Restoration of Ottoman rule	October 1813
• Disestablished	1813
Area
1815	24,440 km2 (9,440 sq mi)
Population
• 1815	332,000
ISO 3166 code	RS
Preceded by Succeeded by Sanjak of Smederevo Sanjak of Smederevo Principality of Serbia
^1 Possibly a hereditary monarchy, at least from 1811, when the People's Governing Council, soon after its establishment, recognized Karađorđe as Serbia's hereditary leader and pledged allegiance to his "lawful heirs".

Revolutionary Serbia (Serbian: Устаничка Србија / Ustanička Srbija), or Karađorđe's Serbia (Serbian: Карађорђева Србија / Karađorđeva Srbija), refers to the state established by the Serbian revolutionaries in Ottoman Serbia (Sanjak of Smederevo) after the start of the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1804. The Sublime Porte first officially recognized the state as autonomous in January 1807, however, the Serbian revolutionaries rejected the treaty and continued fighting the Ottomans until 1813. Although the first uprising was crushed, it was followed by the Second Serbian Uprising in 1815, which resulted in the creation of the Principality of Serbia, as it gained semi-independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1817.

Political history

Stratimirović's Memorandum

• Stratimirović's Memorandum (1804)

Ičko's Peace

Between July and October 1806 Petar Ičko, an Ottoman dragoman (translator-diplomat) and representative of the Serbian rebels, negotiated a peace treaty known in historiography as "Ičko's Peace". Ičko had been sent to Constantinople twice in the latter half of 1806 to negotiate peace. The Ottomans seemed ready to grant Serbia autonomy following rebel victories in 1805 and 1806, also pressured by the Russian Empire, which had taken Moldavia and Wallachia; they agreed to a sort of autonomy and clearer stipulation of taxes in January 1807, by which time the rebels had already taken Belgrade. The rebels rejected the treaty and sought Russian aid to their independence, while the Ottomans had declared war on Russia in December 1806. A Russo-Serbian alliance treaty was signed on 10 June 1807.

Russo-Serbian Alliance

On 10 July 1807, the Serbian rebels under Karađorđe signed an alliance with the Russian Empire during the First Serbian Uprising. After the Ottoman Empire had allied itself with Napoleon's France in late 1806, and was subsequently at war with Russia and Britain, it sought to meet the demands of the Serbian rebels. At the same time, the Russians offered the Serbs aid and cooperation. The Serbs chose alliance with the Russians over autonomy under the Ottomans (as set by the "Ičko's Peace"). Karađorđe was to receive arms, and military and medical missions, which proved to be a turning point in the Serbian Revolution.

Proclamations

• A proclamation (Slavonic-Serbian: Проглашенie) calling for the unity of Serbs, dated 21 February 1809.
• A proclamation with 15 points, dated 16 August 1809.

Government

Seals of the Grand Vožd

Seal of the Governing Council

Rule was divided between Grand Vožd Karađorđe, the Narodna Skupština (People's Assembly) and the Praviteljstvujušči Sovjet (Governing Council), established in 1805.

Governing Council

The Governing Council was established by recommendation of the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Czartoryski and on the proposal of some of the voivodes (Jakov and Matija Nenadović, Milan Obrenović, Sima Marković). The idea of Boža Grujović, the first secretary, and Matija Nenadović, the first president, was that the council would become the government of the new Serbian state. It had to organize and supervise the administration, the economy, army supply, order and peace, judiciary, and foreign policy.

Date	Members
August 1805	Mladen Milovanović, Avram Lukić, Jovan Protić, Pavle Popović, Velisav Stanojlović, Janko Đurđević, Đurica Stočić, Milisav Ilijić, Ilija Marković, Vasilije Radojičić (Popović, Jović), Milutin Vasić, Jevto Savić-Čotrić, Dositej Obradović and Petar Novaković Čardaklija
End of 1805	Archpriest Matija Nenadović (president), and members Jakov Nenadović, Janko Katić, Milenko Stojković, Luka Lazarević and Milan Obrenović.
November 1810	Jakov Nenadović (president), and members Pavle Popović, Velisav Perić, Vasilije Jović (Radojičić), Janko Đurđević, Dositej Obradović, Ilija Marković, and secretaries Stevan Filipović and Mihailo Grujović.

Ministries

In 1811, the government system was reorganized, with the formation of ministries (popečiteljstva) instead of nahija-representatives.

Ministries	Ministers
President	Karađorđe (s. –1813)
International Affairs	Milenko Stojković (s. 1811); Miljko Radonić (s. 1811–12)
Education	Dositej Obradović (s. 1811); Ivan Jugović (s. 1811–12)
Military	Mladen Milovanović (s. 1811–13)
Internal Affairs	Jakov Nenadović (s. 1811–13)
Law	Petar Dobrnjac (s. 1811); Ilija Marković (s. 1811–13)
Finance	Sima Marković (s. 1811–13)
Secretaries	Mihailo Grujović (1st) and Stevan Filipović (2nd)

Maps

• Territory of Revolutionary Serbia
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  In 1809

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  In 1813

See also

• Timeline of the Serbian Revolution

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