Serb revolutionary organizations

This list includes revolutionary organizations aimed at liberating and unifying Serb-inhabited territories into the historical national state of Serbia—it only includes organizations established after the Principality of Serbia (1815) and before the establishment of Second Yugoslavia (1945).

Organization Establishment Notes Image
Serbian Revolutionary organization 1803–04
Niš Secret Organization 1820,
in Niš
Serb National Board
(Srpski narodni odbor)
May 1–3, 1848,
in Sremski Karlovci
Proclaimed a Serbian autonomous region within the Austrian Empire, Serbian Vojvodina, during the Revolutions of 1848 when Serbs fought the Hungarians.
Secret organization in eastern Bosnia 1849 Organized by Ilija Garašanin's circle.
Association for Serb Liberation and Unification September 1871,
in Cetinje
Founded by the United Serbian Youth. It had boards in Cetinje (est. September 1871), Novi Sad (1871) and Belgrade (1871).
Main Board for Serb Liberation Late 1871,
in Kragujevac
Niš Committee September 24, 1874,
in Niš
Founded and organized by Kole Rašić, Todor Milovanović, Dimitrije Đorđević, Milan Novičić, Tasko Tasa Uzunović, Đorđe Pop-Manić, Mihajlo Božidarac, and Todor Stanković.
Central Board of the Bosnian Uprising for Liberation
(Главни одбор Босанског устанка за ослобођење)
1875 Its most influential members were Vaso Vidović and Jovan Bilbija. Golub Babić was the leader of the South Bosnia sector.
Committee for the Liberation of Old Serbia and Macedonia 1877
Central Board of the Kumanovo Uprising January 20, 1878,
in Kumanovo
Its supreme leaders were Orthodox priest Dimitrije Paunović and Veljan Cvetković.
Central Board of the Brsjak Revolt 1880 Its leaders included Ilija Delija, Rista Kostadinović, Micko Krstić and Anđelko Tanasović, among others.
Association of Serbo-Macedonians August 1886,
in Istanbul
Central Board for Chetniks in Macedonia
or
Central Board for Serb Organisation
(Централни Одбор Српске Организације)
in 1902,
in Belgrade
Serb Committee
(Српски комитет)
September 1903,
in Belgrade
Founded by Belgrade, Vranje, Skopje and Bitola Revolutionary Boards
Young Bosnia ca. 1904
Narodna Odbrana October 8, 1908
Black Hand, officially Unification or Death May 9, 1911 Established by militarist high-ranked members of the Royal Serbian Army led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević Apis, that took a part as junior conspirators that assassinated King Alexander and Queen Draga Obrenović in a May Coup 1903.
White Hand 1912 Established by high-ranked members of the Royal Serbian Army led by Colonel Petar Živković, as an opposition to the militarist Black Hand. The White Hand supported the Royal House of Karađorđević and the democratic institutions of the country.
Association against Bulgarian Bandits 1923,
in Štip

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