The Serbian Liberation Committee of the Sanjak of Niš,
known as the Niš Committee ( sr, Нишки комитет/Niški komitet) was a
Serb
The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are the most numerous South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans in Southeastern Europe, who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history and language.
The majority of Serbs live in their na ...
revolutionary organisation (national liberation movement) based in
Niš
Niš (; sr-Cyrl, Ниш, ; names in other languages) is the third largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nišava District. It is located in southern part of Serbia. , the city proper has a population of 183,164, while ...
, established in 1874, with the aim of not only liberating Niš and its immediate surroundings, but also the whole of the
Sanjak of Niš
The Sanjak of Niš ( Turkish: Niş Sancağı; Serbian: Нишки санџак, romanized: ''Niški Sandžak''; Albanian: Sanxhaku i Nishit; Bulgarian: Нишки санджак, romanized: ''Nishki sandzhak'') was one of the sanjaks of the Ot ...
, including
Leskovac
Leskovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Лесковац, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Jablanica District in southern Serbia. According to the 2022 census, City of Leskovac has a 124,889 inhabitants.
Etymology
Leskovac was historicall ...
,
Pirot,
Vranje
Vranje ( sr-Cyrl, Врање, ) is a city in Southern Serbia and the administrative center of the Pčinja District. The municipality of Vranje has a population of 83,524 and its urban area has 60,485 inhabitants.
Vranje is the economical, poli ...
, Breznica, and
Tran, from the hands of the
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
.
Background
*
Serbian Revolution
The Serbian Revolution ( sr, Српска револуција / ''Srpska revolucija'') was a national uprising and constitutional change in Serbia that took place between 1804 and 1835, during which this territory evolved from an Ottoman prov ...
*1832/1833 uprisings in Serbia, whose nahija were merged into the Principality of Serbia
*
Niš rebellion (1841)
The Niš rebellion ( sr, Нишка буна; bg, Нишко въстание) or was a short-lived Christian uprising (5–26 April 1841) that broke out in the Ottoman ''nahiya'' (sub-districts) of Niš, Pirot, Vranje and Toplica, today in Se ...
*
Serb revolutionary organizations
History
On February 24, 1874, the "Serbian Liberation Committee for the Sanjak of Niš", known simply as the ''Niš Committee'', was founded and organized by
Kole Rašić,
Todor Milovanović, Dimitrije Đorđević,
Milan Novičić, Tasko
Tasa Uzunović,
Đorđe Pop-Manić,
Mihajlo Božidarac, and
Todor Stanković.
They gathered at Božidarac's house, and Orthodox priest
Petar Ikonomović swore
Oath
Traditionally an oath (from Anglo-Saxon ', also called plight) is either a statement of fact or a promise taken by a sacrality as a sign of verity. A common legal substitute for those who conscientiously object to making sacred oaths is to g ...
on the
Christian cross and
Gospel
Gospel originally meant the Christian message (" the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words a ...
, reminiscent of the
Orašac Assembly
The Orašac Assembly ( sr, Збор у Орашцу, Zbor u Orašcu) was the gathering of 300 Serbian chiefs and rebels on (Presentation of Jesus at the Temple) at Orašac, a village near Aranđelovac, following the "Slaughter of the Knezes" whic ...
(1804).
[ Rašić was declared ''vojvoda''.
]
Aftermath
* Kumanovo Uprising
See also
* Serb revolutionary organizations
References
Sources
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*Nacionalno politička akcija Nišlija za oslobođenje 1860-1877 U:Istorija Niša I, strana 297–304, Gradina i Prosveta Niš, 1983.
Serbian revolutionary organizations
Organizations established in 1874
19th-century establishments in Serbia
History of Niš
Pirot District
1874 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
1878 disestablishments
Ottoman Serbia
Serbs from the Ottoman Empire
Revolutionary organizations against the Ottoman Empire
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