FROM THE BALKAN HISTORY OF DIPLOMACY AND POLITICS
Publisher: Vladislav B . Sotirović
Volume: 256 pages, pdf
Description:
The goal of this article is to consider and analyze the text of a critical but heretofor neglected, document and historical source on the question of Serbian liberation from Ottoman rule and its national unification. The document was written in 1804 during the first months of the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman oppression. The Serbian nation was divided at the dawn of the 19th century by the borders of Ottoman pashaliks and by the state frontiers that separated the lands under Ottoman control from those under the Habsburg Empire. The beginning of the 19th century was a turning point in the history of the Serbs. From that time the modern history of the Serbs and Serbia begins. The birth of modern Serbian history begins with the First Serbian ћprisingХ (жнейБжнжиЮХ whenбХ afterХ threeХ hundredХ andХ fiftyХ years of Ottoman rule the Serbs in central Serbia (i. e., from the area of the чeogradskiХ pašaluk) 3 rose against the Turks. This uprising was the most important, biggest, and most glorious national revolt in Serbian history.