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Momir of Lučica was a Serbian revolutionary commander who participated in the First Serbian Uprising (1804–1813). Momir of Lučica was considered after Milenko Stojković and Petar Dobrnjac, the most significant revolutionary in the First Serbian Uprising from the Pozarevac region, in terms of courage, reputation and participation.

Biography

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He was born in Lučica, at that time part of the Požarevac nahija in the Smederevo sanjak which at the time was part of the so-called "Belgrade Pashaluk".

Momir was a knjaz (prince) before the uprising. He joined the uprising at the very beginning, in 1804, and gathered the people in Pomoravlje and Stig. He participated in the siege of Požarevac (1804), besieging the city from Morava to Salakovac. His moat was located in Gornja Mali. Momir and Milenko Stojković cleared the southern part of the Požarevac district from the Ottomans.[1] After the liberation of Požarevac, Karađorđe made him the knazof the Principality of Moravia.

Momir had a castle in Lučica, surrounded by a palisade.



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