Draft:Cvetko Popović-Vranovački


Cvetko Popović-Vranovački (Serbian Cyrillic: Цветко Поповић - Врановачки; Donje Vranovce near Lebane (Leskovac), Ottoman Empire, around 1775 - Kopajkošara near Niš, Revolutionary Serbia, 20 May 1809) was a merchant and voivode in the army of Karađorđe's Serbia during the First Serbian Uprising[1][2]

Biography

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Cvetko Popović was born in Donje Vranovce near Lebane not far from Leskovac around 1775. He was a respectable merchant and a mechanic in his area[3]. He was the leader of the Jablanica insurgents in the First Serbian Uprising and Karađorđe's highest-ranking Bimbaša, together with Ilija Strelja and Sava Dedobarac. During the First Serbian Uprising, he had about seven hundred armed men from this area under his command. Cvetko was a fearless opponent of the Turks and Arnauts and initiated the restoration of the church in his area, by gathering around him a large number of devout Christians skilled in masonry, who renovated the church and gathered a large number of young people with weapons who defended the work on the church from the enemy day and night.[4]

He was killed fighting the Turks near Kopajkošara near Niš, on 20 May 1809.

References

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  1. ^ http://dnevnikjuga.rs/cvetko-popovic-vranovacki-vodja-jablanickih-ustanika-u-prvom-srpskom-ustanku-i-karadjordjev-bimbasa/ | title=Cvetko Popović – Vranovački: Vođa jablaničkih ustanika u Prvom srpskom ustanku i Karađorđev bimbaša | date=25 October 2023
  2. ^ http://dnevnikjuga.rs/tag/karadjordje/
  3. ^ http://www.maticasrpska.org.rs/stariSajt/biografije/tom02.pdf
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