Talk:Second Serbian uprising
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The Second Serbian uprising (Други српски устанак) was part of the Serbian Revolution. It lasted for three years (1815-1817), but there were more negotiations than battles.
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The First Serbian Uprising managed to liberate the country for a significant time from Turkey (1804-1813); for the first time in 3 centuries Serbs governed themselves without the supremacy of the Ottoman Empire or Habsburg Austria.
After the failure of the First Serbian uprising, many commanders escaped to the Habsburg Monarchy; only a few remained in Serbia. Karadjordje, leader of the First Serbian Uprising, escaped with his family. Despite connections that Karadjordje ("Black George") had made with Austrian Serbs, Bosnian Serbs, Russians, and even Napoleon, the Serbian state had been reconquered.
Milos Obrenovic surrendered to the Turks and received the title of "obor-knez" ("senior leader"). Stanoj Glavas also surrendered to the Turks, and they made him supervisor of a road, but he was suspicious of the Turks, and they killed him. Hadzi Prodan Gligorijevic knew the Turks would arrest him and so declared a revolt (Hadzi Prodan's Revolt, 1814). Obrenovic did not consider this the right time for an uprising and so did not assist him.
Hadzi Prodan's Revolt soon failed, and he was forced to escape to Austria. After the failure of this revolt, the Turks inflicted more terror against the Serbs. They were taking very high taxes, forced people to labor, and raped women and girls. In March 1815, many Serbs had several meetings and decided to declare a new revolt.
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Finally, in Takovo on April 23, 1815, the national council decided to proclaim a revolt. Milos Obrenovic was chosen for leader and spoke his famous quote: "Here I am, and here you are at war against Turks." When the Turks discovered the new revolt they signed orders for killing all its leaders, and for the final destruction of any revolt. Soon, the Serbs conquered the whole Belgrade Pashaluk, in battles at Ljubic, Čačak, Palez, Požarevac and Dublje.
In summer 1815 the first negotiations began between Milos Obrenovic and Marashli Ali Pasha, the Ottoman governor. Obrenovic managed to get a form of partial autonomy for Serbs, and in 1816, the Turkish parliament ("Porte") signed several documents for normalizing relations between Serbs and Turks. The result was acknowledgement of a Serbian Principality by the Ottoman Empire, which paid yearly tax to the Porta, but was in most other matters an independent state.
Finally, in 1817, Obrenovic succeeded in forcing Marashli Ali Pasha to negotiate an unwritten agreement, and with this The Second Serbian uprising was finished. The same year Karadjordje, the leader of first uprising, came back to Serbia and was assassinated at Obrenovic's direction. Obrenovic received the title of prince; under his grandson Milan Obrenovic, Serbia gained complete independence.
--HolyRomanEmperor 22:42, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
