Karađorđe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Karađorđe

Serbian Revolutionary Leader

Date of Birth: 03-Nov-1768

Place of Birth: Viševac, Šumadija District, Serbia

Date of Death: 14-Jul-1817

Profession: merchant, resistance fighter, military leader, revolutionary

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Karađorđe

  • Ðorde Petrovic (Serbian Cyrillic: ????? ????????, pronounced [d??ô?rd??e petro?it??]), better known by the sobriquet Black George, or Karadorde (Serbian Cyrillic: ?????????, pronounced [kârad??o?rd??e]; 16 November [O.S.
  • 3 November] 1768 – 26 July [O.S.
  • 14 July] 1817), was a Serbian revolutionary who led the struggle for his country's independence from the Ottoman Empire during the First Serbian Uprising of 1804–1813. Born into an impoverished family in the Šumadija region of Ottoman Serbia, Karadorde distinguished himself during the Austro-Turkish War of 1788–1791 as a member of the Serbian Free Corps, a militia made up of Habsburg and Ottoman Serbs that was armed and trained by the Austrians.
  • Fearing retribution following the Austrians' and Serb rebels' defeat in 1791, he and his family fled to the Austrian Empire, where they were to live until 1794, when a general amnesty was declared.
  • Karadorde subsequently returned to Šumadija and became a livestock merchant.
  • In 1796, the rogue governor of the Sanjak of Vidin, Osman Pazvantoglu, invaded the Pashalik of Belgrade, and Karadorde fought alongside the Ottomans to quash the incursion. In early 1804, following a massacre of Serb chieftains by renegade Ottoman janissaries known as Dahis, the Serbs of the Pashalik rebelled.
  • Karadorde was unanimously elected to lead the uprising against the Dahis at an assembly of surviving chiefs in February 1804.
  • Within six months, most of the Dahi leaders had been captured and executed by Karadorde's forces, and by 1805, the final remnants of Dahi resistance had been crushed.
  • Karadorde and his followers now demanded far-reaching autonomy, a move which Sultan Selim interpreted as but the first step towards complete independence.
  • Selim promptly declared jihad against the rebels and ordered an army to march into the Pashalik.
  • The Ottomans suffered a string of defeats at the hands of Karadorde's forces.
  • By 1806, the rebels had captured all the major towns in the Pashalik, including Belgrade and Smederevo, and expelled their Muslim inhabitants.
  • Burdened by the demands of the Russo-Ottoman War of 1806–1812, Selim offered the Serbs extensive autonomy, but Karadorde refused in light of Russia's avowal to aid the rebels should they continue fighting. Frequent infighting, together with Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812, weakened the rebels, and the Ottomans were able to reverse many of their gains.
  • Karadorde was forced to flee Serbia in October 1813 and Belgrade fell later that month, bringing the First Serbian Uprising to a close.
  • He and his followers sought refuge in the Austrian Empire, but were arrested and detained.
  • Despite Ottoman requests for his extradition, the Austrians handed Karadorde over to the Russians, who offered him refuge in Bessarabia.
  • There, he joined the Greek secret society known as Filiki Eteria, which planned to launch a pan-Balkan uprising against the Ottomans.
  • Karadorde returned to Serbia in secret in July 1817, but was killed shortly thereafter by agents of Miloš Obrenovic, a rival rebel leader, who was concerned that Karadorde's reappearance would cause the Ottomans to renege on the concessions that they had agreed to following the Second Serbian Uprising of 1815.
  • Karadorde is considered the founder of the Karadordevic dynasty, which ruled Serbia in several intervals during the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • His murder resulted in a violent, decades-long feud between his descendants and those of Obrenovic, with the Serbian throne changing hands several times.

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