{"id":7999,"date":"2024-03-07T10:36:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T10:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kraljevskafondacija.rs\/?p=7999"},"modified":"2024-04-02T13:03:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T13:03:20","slug":"supreme-leader-karadorde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kraljevskafondacija.rs\/en\/supreme-leader-karadorde\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Leader Kara\u0111or\u0111e\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(14. November 1762\/16. November 1768.- 25. July 1817.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u0110or\u0111e, son of Petar Jovanovi\u0107 and mother Marica, was born in Vi\u0161evac near Ra\u010da in \u0160umadija on November 16, 1768, as their third child and first son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His grandfather Jovan perished in combat with the Turks in 1715. He married Jelena Jovanovi\u0107 in 1785, the daughter of the Jasenica district prince Nikola Jovanovi\u0107 and Bosiljka from the village of Maslo\u0161evo. She was early bereaved of her mother, and later her father and two brothers were killed as rebels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u0110or\u0111e and Jelena had seven children: Sima (died shortly after birth), Sava, Sara, Poleksija, Stamenka, Aleksa (died at 29 years in Chi\u0219in\u0103u, present-day Moldova), and their heir Alexander. \u0110or\u0111e Petrovi\u0107 distinguished himself during the Austro-Turkish War (1787\u20131791) as a member of the Serbian Freikorps, a Habsburg militia composed of Serbs. Fearing retaliation after the Austrian defeat in 1791, he fled with his family to Austria, where they lived until 1794 when a general amnesty was declared. \u0110or\u0111e returned to \u0160umadija and became a livestock trader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For his merits in the fight against the Turks and his courage and bravery, he was nicknamed by his enemies as Black \u0110or\u0111e or Kara\u0111or\u0111e.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the execution of the princes, at a gathering in Ora\u0161ac on the Feast of the Presentation in 1804, he was elected Supreme Leader of the uprising. He was the third choice for the leader of the uprising, after the first two declined. The position was first offered to Stanoje Stamatovi\u0107 Glava\u0161, a great hero and rebel leader (hajduk harambashi), who refused, as he was a hajduk believing he could not maintain good relations with the princes. And then it was offered to Prince Teodosije Mari\u0107evi\u0107, who also declined due to lack of military experience and being far from the rebels. Both supported Kara\u0111or\u0111e, who was respected by both rebels and princes, had significant military experience, and was feared by the Turks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He personally participated in all the major battles, leaving behind many victories against the often more numerous and better-armed Turkish army: Ivankovac on August 18, 1805, Mi\u0161ar on August 13, 1806, Suvodol on June 10, 1809, and Varvarin on September 18, 1810. He was a great diplomat, troubling 10 Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire, three Sultans – Selim III, Mustafa IV, and Mahmud II, and corresponded with Napoleon, Russian Emperor Alexander I, and Austrian Emperor Francis I. Napoleon was asked in Aspern near Vienna in 1809 if he was the greatest commander. He replied: “It’s easy for me to be great with our experienced army and vast resources, but far to the south, in the Balkans, there is a commander who, gathering his shepherds around him, managed without weapons and only with cherry cannons, to shake the foundations of the mighty Ottoman Empire and thus liberate his enslaved people. That is Black \u0110or\u0111e, to him belongs the glory of the greatest commander.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the sake of order and justice, Kara\u0111or\u0111e killed his brother Marinko after he dishonoured a girl, considered the greatest insult to a family. A mother personally told him: “Wait, we fight against Turkish oppression, and your brother has struck the face of my daughter.” Kara\u0111or\u0111e gave a rope to his aide, Duki\u0107, to hang his brother. Duki\u0107 missed intentionally, hoping Kara\u0111or\u0111e’s anger would pass and not lead to his brother’s death. After missing intentionally again, Kara\u0111or\u0111e, realising the seriousness, took a pistol and aimed at Duki\u0107, who then saw there was no joke and hanged his brother Marinko.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the uprising’s defeat in 1813, he crossed into Austria with his family and many prominent people, as well as tens of thousands of refugees, fleeing Turkish retaliation. In 1816, Kara\u0111or\u0111e joined the Filiki Eteria, an Orthodox movement for the liberation of all enslaved Balkans, wishing to continue the fight to expel the Turks from Serbia. His assassination on the night between July 25 and 26, 1817, in the village of Radovanje near Velika Plana, was ordered by Prince Milo\u0161 Obrenovi\u0107, leader of the Second Serbian Uprising, organised by Vuji\u0107a Vuli\u0107evi\u0107, and carried out by Nikola Novakovi\u0107, a native of Kola\u0161in, a settler from the Smederevo Jasenica. Prince Milo\u0161 Obrenovi\u0107 ordered Kara\u0111or\u0111e’s head to be sent to Belgrade, then to the Sultan in Istanbul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great Serbian poet, Bishop Petar II Petrovi\u0107 Njego\u0161, dedicated his most famous work, “The Mountain Wreath” from 1847, to “the dust of the father of Serbia” Kara\u0111or\u0111e. His remains rest today in the Church of Saint George at Oplenac, in Topola, a foundation of his grandson His Majesty King Peter I the Liberator. At the entrance to the church stands a depiction of Saint George slaying the dragon, with Kara\u0111or\u0111e’s head replacing George’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(14. November 1762\/16. November 1768.- 25. July 1817.) \u0110or\u0111e, son of Petar Jovanovi\u0107 and mother Marica, was born in Vi\u0161evac near Ra\u010da in \u0160umadija on November 16, 1768, as their third child and first son. His grandfather Jovan perished in combat with the Turks in 1715. He married Jelena Jovanovi\u0107 in 1785, the daughter of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dynasty"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kraljevskafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kraljevskafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kraljevskafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kraljevskafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kraljevskafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kraljevskafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8000,"href":"https:\/\/kraljevskafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions\/8000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kraljevskafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kraljevskafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kraljevskafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}