While the assembly was sitting in Ostružnica, a meeting of Serbian elders and representatives of the dahis was organized in Zemun on 10 May (28 April according to the Old Calendar) through the commander of the Slavonian Krajina, General Dženejn.
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year, to be a courtroom in each nahija and to judge everyone according to the law, then they asked for freedom of religion, to rebuild destroyed monasteries, that the religious customs could be freely celebrated, free trade, and that the people be allowed to sell their goods to whomever it pleases, that the Serbian population is allowed to set its princes, etc. Petar Erić of Zvečka, Djordje Milovanović of Zeleznik, Marko Doljahčević of Ostružnica, Radoje Trnavac of Ranilović, Rista Radojčić of Blaznava, Tanasko Rajić of Stragari, Ranko Radić of Nemenikuće, Raka Levajac, uncle Mateja Nenadović, Miloje Petrović of Trnava, Mihailo Lazarević of Šopić, Milan Obrenović of Brusnica, Teodor Filipović of Knić, monks Sava abbot of Ravanica, Josif abbot of Kalenić, Jagodina archpriest Miloje Vukašinović, Požarevac archpriest Josif, etc.Īt this assembly, the insurgents demanded: that the dahis be expelled from Belgrade, they demanded a decree that would forgive the insurgents for everything that happened and that they should not be sued for it, either publicly or secretly, that every vizier rule according to the decree from 1793. Šopić, Pavle Popović of Vranić, Juriša Mihailović also took part in the gathering in Ostružnica. Instead of continuing to negotiate with the Serbs Sultan Selim III ordered Hafiz Pașa to prosecute a war and recapture all the Serbian territories the Ottoman Empire lost to Karađorđe and his freedom-fighters.Īpart from Karađorđe, Stanoje Glavas, Mladen Milovanović, Đuša Vulićević, Teodosije Maričević (Bulatović) of Orašac, Janko Katić, Vasa Čarapić, Sima Marković, Archpriest Aleksa Lazarević of Turkish spies, even before the assembly, became well aware of Serbian aspirations to free themselves in Serbia and eventually in Montenegro. Immediately after the first Serbian National assembly at Ostružnica, better known as the Ostružina Assembly (Serbian Cyrillic: Остружничка скупштина) held near Belgrade at the end of April and beginning of May 1804 at which free modern Serbia was proclaimed.
This assembly is of great importance for the First Serbian Uprising because it represented the first meeting of all Nahija and insurgent elders of the Belgrade pashalik since the Serbs raised an uprising against Dahija in general. At this assembly, in addition to the agreement on what will be presented to the Dahija envoys in the peace negotiations in Zemun, they also discussed the further development of the uprising, the organization of the new government, the procurement of ammunition, etc. The Ostružnica Assembly (May 6-15, 1804) was a meeting of Serbian national leaders during the First Serbian Uprising.
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