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List Of Habsburg Serbs
The following is a list of Habsburg Serbs (), that is, ethnic Serbs active in the Habsburg monarchy (1526–1804). The Serb community was commonly known as "Rascians". Nobility and military personnel * Crepović noble family * Radič Božić * Stjepan Berislavić * Ivaniš Berislavić * Miloš Belmužević * Jovan Branković * Jovan Nenad * Pavle Bakić * Radoslav Čelnik * Deli-Marko * Starina Novak * Jakšić noble family * Vuk Grgurević * Petar Ovčarević * Mihailo Ovčarević * Dimitrije Ovčarević * Stefan Osmokruhović * Petar Ljubojević * Staniša Marković-Mlatišuma * Bogić Vučković * Arsenije Loma * Demeter Radossevich von Rados * Peter Tersich von Cadesich * Peter Duka von Kadar * Emmerich Blagoevich * Anton Csorich * Gabriel Rodić * Adam Bajalics von Bajahaza * Andreas Karaczay * Petar Ovčarević (fl. 1521–41), commander *Mihailo Ovčarević (fl. 1550–79), commander * Dimitrije Ovčarević (fl. 1552–66), commander * Jovan Ovčarev ...
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Serbs
The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Southeastern Europe who share a common Serbian Cultural heritage, ancestry, Culture of Serbia, culture, History of Serbia, history, and Serbian language, language. They primarily live in Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro as well as in North Macedonia, Slovenia, Germany and Austria. They also constitute a significant diaspora with several communities across Europe, the Americas and Oceania. The Serbs share many cultural traits with the rest of the peoples of Southeast Europe. They are predominantly Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox Christians by religion. The Serbian language, Serbian language (a standardized version of Serbo-Croatian) is official in Serbia, co-official in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is spoken by the plurality in Montenegro. Ethnology The identity of Serbs is rooted in Eastern Orthodoxy and traditions. In the 19th century, the ...
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Starina Novak
Starina Novak ( sr-Cyrl, Старинa Новак; ; , meaning "Old Novak") was a Serb ''hajduk'' (brigand and rebel) who distinguished himself in many battles against the Ottoman Empire. He is considered a national hero by both the Serbs and the Romanians. Early life Novak was born in or to a Serbian family in the village of Poreč, on an island on the Danube, at the time part of the Ottoman Empire (today Donji Milanovac, Serbia). His family hailed from the Timok Valley. He studied at the monastery of Poreč where he learned to read and write in Old Church Slavonic. In addition to his Serbian mother tongue, he also learned Romanian in the Timok valley, Greek, and Turkish while a slave of the Ottomans. Military career He began his career as a ''hajduk'' at an early age after he was imprisoned and beaten by Turks, losing all his teeth (hence the name ''Old Novak'') that led him to leave his birthplace and take refuge in the forests of the Timok Valley where he quickly learne ...
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Peter Duka Von Kadar
Peter Freiherr Duka von Kádár (; Esseg, Slavonia, 1756 - Vienna, Austrian Empire, 29 December 1822) was of Croatian Serb ancestry privy councillor, officer (Feldzeugmeister) and Inhaber of the Hungarian Infantry Regiment No. 39, then State and Conference Council of the Emperor. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa. He is remembered as a great adversary of Napoleon and to have negotiated an armistice with the French Emperor at Lusigny-sur-Barse. Biography Duka was born in Osijek in 1756 into a Croatian Serb family, while some sources describe him as coming from an Aromanian Serbian Orthodox family. He enrolled in a military college in late 1773. In 1776 Duka joined the 13th Wallach-Illyrian (Romanian/Serbian) Regiment in Caransebeş as a cadet, but two years later, he was transferred to the General Staff as a Leutnant lieutenant for his obvious abilities. In 1787, he was promoted to Hauptmann captain. Promoted to Major on 1 December ...
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Peter Tersich Von Cadesich
General Petar Terzić (Peter Tersich von Cadesich (Serbian Cyrillic: Генерал Петар Терзић) was born in Kovilj, Slavonia, Habsburg monarchy, 1739 and died in Pančevo, Banat, Habsburg Monarchy, 22 December 1806. He was an Austrian nobleman and major general who fought in the Ottoman and Napoleonic wars. Early life Petar Terzić was born in 1739 in Kovilj in Slavonia the part of the Military Frontier of the centuries-long conflict between two empires from the early 1600s into the 1900s. Petar Terzić came from a Serbian family with a military history. Career In 1751 he became a cadet; in 1752, an ensign; and in 1753, lieutenant. As a graduate cadet of the Imperial-Royal Army in the Habsburg Monarchy, he rose through the military ranks, in 1965, he was promoted to captain; and by 1790, reached the rank of colonel. In the Serbian Banat occasionally officers and frontier guardsmen were stripped of their rank. Terzić always supported the Serbian claim in milita ...
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Demeter Radossevich Von Rados
Demeter Freiherr Radossevich von Rados (July 1767 – 4 June 1835) was an Austrian nobleman, and an imperial general during the Napoleonic Wars. Biography He was born in Medak, in the Croatian Military Frontier, into a Serbian military family ennobled in 1773 with the predicate "von Rados." In 1783 he enrolled in an Austrian military cadet school from where he naturally progressed in rank. He was promoted to captain in 1796, then major sometime in the early 1800s; lieutenant colonel in 1807; Colonel sometime between 1807 and 1813 when he became major general.In the battles of Aspern-Essling and Wagram he showed exceptional bravery and was consequently awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa. He continued to distinguish himself in battles, namely the Battle of Leipzig, and following the Treaty of Paris he was awarded both the Knight's Cross of the Order of Leopold in 1816. In 1823 his social status was further elevated to Freiherr, the equivalent of bar ...
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Arsenije Loma
Arsenije Loma ( sr-cyr, Арсеније Лома; 1768–1815) was a Serbian ''voivode'' (military commander) in the First and Second Serbian Uprising of the Serbian Revolution (1804–1817). He was appointed by Karađorđe to command Kačer in 1811. Life Loma was born in Gojna Gora, to father Joksim, who after the settling of new inhabitants, immediately after the birth of Arsenije, relocated to Dragolj, in the Rudnik nahija. Arsenije took his nickname Lomo from the river Lovnica (formerly ''Lomnica''), which lies in Gojna Gora. He had a sister, Pauna, who later married Milutin Savić-''Garašanin'', who together had three sons, one of whom was Ilija Garašanin, the Serbian Prime Minister 1861–1867. He was one of the initiators of the First Serbian Uprising. He fought under the command of Milan Obrenović at the Battle of Rudnik, in which he showed heroic deeds. At the end of February 1804, at the beginning of the First Serbian Uprising, 500 rebels commanded by Ar ...
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Bogić Vučković
Bogić Vučković Stratimirović ( sr-cyr, Богић Вучковић Стратимировић, 1735–1745) was a Serbian rebel leader in the Sanjak of Herzegovina who organized an uprising in 1737, during the Austro-Russian–Turkish War (1735–1739). He was from the Trebinje hinterland, in Herzegovina, the son of Vučko Petrović and grandson of Petar Stratimirović. Early on, he moved to the Kingdom of Serbia (1718–1739). He is mentioned in documents as a merchant from Kragujevac. He bought an attestation from the Republic of Ragusa that he descended from Stracimir Balšić, the Lord of Zeta, then appeared in autumn 1737 at the Habsburg deputy commander's office in Sremski Karlovci Sremski Karlovci ( sr-Cyrl, Сремски Карловци, ) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka Districtautonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated on the banks of the Danube, from Novi Sad. According to the 202 ..., with Aleksa Milišević, presenting th ...
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Mlatišuma
Staniša Marković ( sr-Cyrl, Станиша Марковић; 1664–1740), known as Mlatišuma (Млатишума), was a Kingdom of Serbia (1718–39), Habsburg Serbian ''obor-kapetan, obercapitain'' of Kragujevac. He had joined the Austrians in the Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18, and after the victorious war and occupation of central Serbia (the Kingdom of Serbia (1718–39), Kingdom of Serbia) he was given the rank of ''Obercapitain'', governing Kragujevac, and commanding the Serbian Militia (1718–46) alongside Vuk Isaković. In peace-time, he was sent to what is today Montenegro to incite an anti-Ottoman rebellion; a short-lived uprising broke out in which his personal unit participated. In 1734–35 he founded the Drača Monastery in Kragujevac. When the Austro-Russian–Turkish War (1735–39) broke out, Serbs were mobilized and Mlatišuma led forces in numerous campaigns. He is regarded as a hero and enumerated in Serbian epic poetry. Early life According to Sima Milu ...
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Petar Ljubojević
Petar Ljubojević ( sr-cyr, Петар Љубојевић) was an Austrian captain of the Varaždin Generalate (Slavonian Military Frontier The Slavonian Military Frontier ( or ; ; ; ) was a district of the Military Frontier, a territory in the Habsburg monarchy, first during the period of the Austrian Empire and then during the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. It was formed out of te ...) who led the Varaždin frontiersmen in revolt (1754–55). He was called "father and mother of the Varaždin frontier" (''otac i majka varaždinske granice''). The revolt was organized in the Orthodox church at Severin. See also * Stefan Osmokruhović * Harambasha Smiljan Vujić * Marko Bogdanović (knjaz) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Petar Ljubojevic 18th-century Austrian people 18th-century Serbian people Serbian rebels Austrian military personnel People of the Military Frontier Habsburg Serbs ...
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Stefan Osmokruhović
Stefan Osmokruhović (, sr-cyr, Стефан Осмокруховић; 1665–died in 1666) was the great judge (de. ''Grossrichter'', sr. ''veliki sudac'') of the Križevci captainate, who in 1665 led a revolt of the Grenz infantry soldiers in the Varaždin generalate of the Military Frontier against the Austrian officers, after the rights of the frontiersmen had been compromised. A Serb, Osmokruhović held secret meetings in the Slavonian Military Frontier, in which many Serbs took part in. He was also supported by the judges of Koprivnica and Ivanica, Ilija Romanović and Nikola Vuković, and they all sent letters to the Austrian Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor about the issues in March 1666. Appointed the commander of the Varaždin frontiersmen themselves and named great judge (''Veliki Sudac''), he claimed to answer to no one besides the Austrian Emperor, and sought that the frontiersmen's right to ownership of the land between the Sava and Drava be recognized, among other is ...
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Dimitrije Ovčarević
Dimitrije Ovčarević ( sr-cyr, Димитрије Овчаревић; 1552–66) was a Habsburg Serb nobleman. Dimitrije Ovčarević belonged to the Ovčarević family, a notable Serb family in Habsburg service in the 16th century, and was a relative of the earlier Petar Ovčarević (fl. 1521–41), a Šajkaši commander and spy, and contemporaries Mihailo Ovčarević (fl. 1550–79), a Šajkaši commander, and Jovan Ovčarević (fl. 1557), an emissary., In 1552 he is mentioned as a leader of the Serbs in Banat, and in 1553 as the captain of Gyula. He was very loyal to King Ferdinand I and enjoyed his support. In 1556 it was planned that he travel to Vienna to meet Ferdinand for some business, however, the king asked him to postpone due to Ottoman movement. The same year he was given to govern a part of the Csanád chapter until its populating, in order to maintain troops. The king often used Church property, due to financial shortage, to pay the voivodes' expenses and troo ...
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Mihailo Ovčarević
Mihailo Ovčarević ( sr-cyr, Михаило Овчаревић; 1550–79) was a Habsburg Serb ''vojvoda'' (commander) of the Šajkaši (river flotilla). Mihailo Ovčarević belonged to the Ovčarević family, a notable Serb family in Habsburg service in the 16th century, and was a relative of the earlier Petar Ovčarević (fl. 1521–41), a Šajkaši commander and spy, and contemporaries Dimitrije Ovčarević (fl. 1552–66), captain of Gyula, and Jovan Ovčarević (fl. 1557), an emissary. He is mentioned in 1550 as a ''vojvoda'' of the Šajkaši., After a denunciation, Emperor Ferdinand I had Mihailo imprisoned, where he stayed for several months until having proved his innocence. As compensation, Ferdinand I issued him a yearly 50 gold coins, which was then changed to 25. In 1557 he asked the War Council to appoint him a ''vojvoda'' in Komárno Komárno (, , ), colloquially also called ''Révkomárom'', ''Öregkomárom'', ''Észak-Komárom'' in Hungarian language, H ...
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