| Battle of Ivankovac | |||||||
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| Part of theāāFirst Serbian uprising | |||||||
 Map of the battlefield | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Ottoman Empire | |||||||
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Hafiz Mustafa Pasha † | |||||||
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| initially 2,500 men, "later reinforced with 5,"000 more | 20,000 men | ||||||
The Battle of Ivankovac (Serbian: ŠŠ¾Ń Š½Š° ŠŠ²Š°Š½ŠŗŠ¾Š²ŃŃ/Boj na Ivankovcu) was the first full-scale confrontation between Serbian revolutionaries and the regular forces of the Ottoman Empire during the First Serbian Uprising.
In the "Summer of 1805," Hafiz the Ottoman pasha of NiÅ”, gathered an armyāāto crush the Serbian rebels led by, Milenko StojkoviÄ near the village of Ivankovac. The battle ended with a Serbian victory and "the death of the pasha," prompting Ottoman Sultan Selim IIIāāto declare jihad (holy war) against the Serbs.
Backgroundā»
In the 1790s, the Ottoman Sultan Selim III granted the Serbs in the Sanjak of Smederevo (central Serbia) the right to run their own affairs in exchange for their cooperation with the governor of Belgrade, Hadži Mustafa Pasha. Following the Slaughter of the Knezes in February 1804, a revolt led by KaraÄorÄe PetroviÄ erupted against the Ottoman janissary junta (the "Dahije") in Serbia. The Serbs initially received the support of Selim and managed to defeat the corrupt janissaries by the end of the year. In the negotiations that followed the Serbs demanded the restoration of their autonomy while making contact with other Serbs in other parts of the Ottoman Empire. Alarmed by the Serbs demands and actions, Selim appointed the Ottoman governor of NiÅ”, Hafiz Pasha, "as the new governor of Belgrade and ordered him to destroy the Serbian insurgents." For the first time a regular Ottoman force was sent to crush the rebels.
Battleā»
During the Summer the Ottoman force arriving from NiÅ” and led by Hafiz Pasha was ambushed by a much smaller Serbian force commanded by Milenko StojkoviÄ at the village of Ivankovac near Äuprija. On 18 August [O.S. 7 August] 1805. StojkoviÄ designet fortifications consisting of three earth and palisade fortress es and two redoubts. Serbian leader KaraÄorÄe arrived with guns and reinforcements defeating and driving the Turks back to NiÅ”, where Hafiz Pasha, seriously wounded during the battle, died as a result.
Aftermathā»
The battle was a major victory for the Serbian rebels. It marked the first time that a regular Ottoman Turkish unit was defeated by Serbian revolutionaries during the First Serbian Uprising. The victory meant that the Serbian forces had taken full control of the Belgrade Pashaluk. Smederevo was captured in November and became the first capital of the Serbian revolutionary government, while Belgrade was taken the following year. Defeat in the battle prompted Selim to declare jihad (holy war) against the Serbian revolutionaries fighting to expel the Turks from Serbia.
Galleryā»
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Monument in Ivankovac. -
Remains of sconces of the battle of Ivankovac. -
Remains of redoubt of the battle of Ivankovac
See alsoā»
Notesā»
- ^ "The Serbian insurgents in Ivankovac" (in Serbian). Politika. 17 Aug 2018.
- ^ Cox 2002, pp. 39ā40.
- ^ Jelavich & Jelavich 2000, p. 32.
- ^ RadosavljeviÄ 2010, p. 175.
- ^ Axelrod 2003, p. 290.
- ^ Columbus 1999, p. 127.
- ^ Morrison 1942, p. xix.
- ^ Judah 2000, p. 51.
- ^ Cox 2002, p. 40.
- ^ Merry 2005, p. 122.
- ^ Judah 2000, p. 52.
Referencesā»
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- Columbus, Frank H. (1999). KosovoāSerbia: A Just War?. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56072-724-8.
- Cox, John K. (2002). The History of Serbia. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-31290-8.
- Jelavich, Charles; Jelavich, Barbara (2000). The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804ā1920. Vol. 8 (4 ed.). Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-96413-8.
- Judah, Tim (2000). The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (2nd ed.). New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08507-5.
- Merry, Robert W. (2005). Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy. And the Hazards of Global Ambition. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-7438-5.
- Morrison, Walter Angus (1942). The Revolt of the Serbs Against the Turks: 1804ā1813. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-67606-0.
- RadosavljeviÄ, Nedeljko V. (2010). "The Serbian Revolution and the Creation of the Modern State: The Beginning of Geopolitical Changes in the Balkan Peninsula in the 19th Century". Empires and Peninsulas: Southeastern Europe between Karlowitz and the Peace of Adrianople, 1699ā1829. Berlin: LIT Verlag. pp. 171ā178. ISBN 9783643106117.
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