Mašići Rebellion (1806)
| Mašići Rebellion | |||||||
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| Part of First Serbian Uprising | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Local Serb peasants | Ottoman Bosnian troops | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Mašići knez  Mašići Orthodox priest | |||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Rebels killed in battle or captured alive and executed | |||||||
The Mašići Rebellion (Serbian: машићка буна) was a Serb rebellion against Ottoman authorities in Bosanska Krajina region that broke out in 1806 in the Mašići village near Gradiška.[1]
The Ottoman authorities followed the behaviour of Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the First Serbian Uprising led by Karađorđe, in order to prevent a connection to the Serbian uprising.[2] After learning that a number of Serbs crossed to join the rebellion, Ali-paša Vidajić of Zvornik burnt down the Tavna Monastery and many villages in its surroundings.[3] In 1806 Karađorđe sent confidants to rise up northern Bosnia.[3] The Serbian victory at Mišar (13–15 August 1806), in which 12,000 rebels defeated 20,000 troops of Bosnian beys, raised hopes among the Serbs of Bosanska Krajina,[4] and resonated among Bosnia's Christian who due to it took up a defensive stance against Muslim violence.[5] Prijedor priest Dimitrije Stojanović wrote "as all Orthodox we hope that Karađorđe also liberates and puts us under his leadership".[6] Karađorđe's confidants were unable to rise up the region at this time, due to the state of poverty in the villages.[7] Only Mašići, the most well of the villages below the Kozara mountain, and its immediate surroundings rose up.[7] This area had a favourable geographic location with the Kozara and Sava river, in case the rebellion failed.[7]
The First Mašići movement was suppressed by the Ottoman troops who had returned home after their defeat at Mišar.[3] Half of the 1,000 soldiers sent by the aghas and beys of Bosanska Krajina survived Mišar and returned home.[8] The Banja Luka Turks had received news that Mašići revolted and informed the troops coming through, who then hurried to clash with them.[7] They met rebel bands at Lijevče, who were untrained and badly armed.[7] Part of the rebels were killed, others took refuge on the Kozara from where they crossed the Sava into Habsburg territory, while some were captured alive.[9] 18[7] or 17[3] of the captured Serbs were impaled in the Banja Luka field and died in agony with Ottoman guards surrounding them.[3] Among these were the Mašići priest and knez.[7] Part of the refugees took to Nova Gradiška (now in Croatia).[7]
The Mašići rebellion of 1806 is sometimes confused with the 1809 Jančić's rebellion (which is also called the "First Mašići rebellion").
References
- ^ Milošević 2016, p. 116.
- ^ Milošević 2016, p. 114.
- ^ a b c d e Milošević 2016, p. 115.
- ^ Milošević 2016, p. 115, Čubrilović 1934, pp. 902–910
- ^ Bataković 2006, p. 125.
- ^ Milošević 2016, p. 115, Čubrilović 1934, pp. 902–910
- ^ a b c d e f g h Bijelić 1933, p. 5.
- ^ Antić & Kecmanović 2016, p. 91.
- ^ Milošević 2016, p. 115, Bijelić 1933, p. 5
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