Vujica Vulićević
Vujica Vulićević Вујица Вулићевић | |
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Born | 1773 Revolutionary Serbia |
Years of service | 1805–1815 |
Battles/wars | Deligrad |
Vujica Vulićević also known as Vule Vulićević (
Life
Personal
Vujica was born in the village of
Revolution
He was part of the First Serbian Uprising since the start. Among his subordinates, was Djordje Zagla.[1]
In December 1806, voivodes Vujica,
Together with voivode
After the murder of his brother Đuša, Vujica becomes Obor-knez, or holder of the Smederevo district.
He was sent by Miloš with Prota Mateja to negotiate with
The murder of Karađorđe
In 1812, threatened by Napoleon's French Empire, Russia had to quickly sign a peace treaty with the Ottomans. In 1813, the Ottoman Empire launched a big assault on Serbia taking land all up to the rivers Morava and the river Drina, and Karađorđe, along with other rebel leaders, fled to the Austrian Empire on 21 September 1813. After some time, Karađorđe emigrated to Bessarabia, where he joined the Greek national liberation movement Filiki Eteria, where he became an active member.[5] The Greeks were primarily interested in using the Serbian lands as base of the Greek operations.[6] Miloš Obrenović was fully uncooperative.[5]
On 25 July 1817, in the
Later years
In 1821, he is appointed diplomat and sent to Constantinople (now Istanbul). In 1827, he returns to Serbia. He was given an Ottoman Kilij for his service.
See also
References
- ^ Macedonia, p.114
- ^ Damnjanović, p. 68
- ^ Esdaile, Charles, Napoleon's Wars, (Viking Adult, 2008), 252.
- ^ The memoirs of Prota Matija Nenadović, p. xxxvii
- ^ a b History of the Balkans: Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, p. 207
- ^ History of the Balkans: Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, p. 240
- ^ a b The poetics of Slavdom: the mythopoeic foundations of Yugoslavia, Volume 2, p. 488
- ^ A short history of the Yugoslav peoples, p. 85
- ^ Fodor's Yugoslavia, p. 283
Sources
- Matica Srpska, Biografija
- Stojan V. Živadinović, Vujica Vulićević, 1933
- Nebojša Damnjanović, Vladimir Merenik, The first Serbian uprising and the restoration of the Serbian state, Historical Museum of Serbia, Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, 2004