Valjevska Tamnava

Valjevska Tamnava (Serbian: Ваљевска Тамнава) is a historical subregion (or microregion) in Serbian Posavina in west Serbia. It includes villages in the area of Obrenovac, Lajkovac, Ub, Valjevo and Koceljeva. It was a knežina (Christian self-governing village group) in the Sanjak of Smederevo and a knežina (administrative unit) in Revolutionary Serbia.

Further, the Posavina (Sava basin) region includes the microregions of Posavina and Posavotamnava.

Geography

Pavlović (1912) describes Valjevska Tamnava in the wider sense as stretching from the Kolubara river in the east, Sava river in the north, Vukodraž river in the west, and Vlašić mountain in the south.[1]

History

Middle Ages

In the Middle Ages, during the Banate of Macsó of Hungary and the Serbian Despotate, the župa (counties) of Beljin, Nepričava, Kolubara, Tamnava and Ub, were mentioned in the 14th- and 15th centuries in the area of Tamnava.[2]

Serbian Revolution

During the First Serbian Uprising (1804–13), the Valjevska Tamnava area was organized into a knežina (administrative unit) of Revolutionary Serbia, belonging to the Valjevo nahiya. The Valjevo nahiya had included three knežina (Christian self-governing village groups) prior to 1804, the Posavina (or "Valjevska Tamnava"), Jadar, Ljig/Podgor (or "Valjevska Podgorina").[3] Prior to the uprising, Free Corps veteran Aleksa Nenadović from Brankovina served as the obor-knez of Posavina–Tamnava.[4] He was executed by the Dahije in the Slaughter of the Knezes in January 1804.[5]

On 14 February [O.S. 2 February] 1804, Serb notables met at Orašac in the Kragujevac nahiya and decided to rise up under the command of Karađorđe. Aleksa's brother Jakov Nenadović had succeeded as obor-knez of Tamnava, and when hearing that the Kragujevac, Rudnik and most of the Belgrade nahiyas had risen up, he and his nephew, Aleksa's son, the archpriest Matija Nenadović, decided to organize rebellion in the Valjevo nahiya.[6] On 27 February [O.S. 15 February] 1804,[7] or the following day,[8] the Serb notables of the Valjevo nahiya gathered at the Brankovina height (Brankovački vis) and decided to rise up against the Dahije.[7] Some 700 men were gathered, but they were ill-equipped.[8] Jakov took 300 men of Posavina and Tamnava and went to Beljin and fought with the Šabac Turk detachment on 6 March [O.S. 23 February] 1804, with many wounded on both sides.[9] The rebels under Matija Nenadović and Nikola Grbović took over Valjevo in March and at the same time, Jakov Nenadović destroyed an enemy unit at Svileuva.[10]

The Valjevska Tamnava rebel unit participated at Svileuva, Beljin, Čučuge, Bratačić, Bukovica, Mišar, Loznica, Lešnica.[11] Among notable leaders, comrades of the Nenadović family of the Valjevo nahiya and Luka Lazarević of the Šabac nahiya, were Isailo Lazić from Krtinska, Petar Erić from Zvečka, priest Leontije Marković from Urovci, Živan Petrović from Kalenić, Vasilj Pavlović from Bajevac, Đura Kostić from Crvena Jabuka, hegumen Jeremija from Grabovica, Milovan Zujalović from Tulari, Živko Dabić from Gola Glava, Jovan Tomić-Belov from Donje Crniljevo, Mihailo Gluvac from Kamenica, Rade Radosavljević from Goločelo, and others.[11]

Notable people

  • Juriša Mihailović (Serbian: Јуриша Михаиловић) was a Serb revolutionary, a captain (kapetan) in the Valjevska Tamnava knežina during the First Serbian Uprising.[12] He was born in Grabovac.[13] Juriša was a merchant, regarded the richest in the Valjevska Tamnava area.[13] Juriša and Petar Erić participated at the Ostružnica Assembly (7–16 May 1804), accompanying archpriest Matija Nenadović, as representatives of the Valjevo nahija.[14] Juriša participated at the Zemun Meeting (10 May 1804) as one of the 16 Serbian representatives.[15] As one of the representatives of the Valjevo nahija, he signed the April 1805 petition to the Sultan.[16]

References

  1. ^ Jovanović & Jevtić 1978, p. 69.
  2. ^ Jovanović & Jevtić 1978, p. 69-70.
  3. ^ Đorđević 1921, p. 517.
  4. ^ Nenadović 1903, p. 630.
  5. ^ Nenadović 1903, p. 633.
  6. ^ Batalaka 1898, p. 90.
  7. ^ a b Protić 1893, p. 125.
  8. ^ a b Batalaka 1898, p. 91.
  9. ^ Batalaka 1898, p. 98.
  10. ^ Batalaka 1898, p. 103-105.
  11. ^ a b Petrović 2011.
  12. ^ Nenadović 1884, p. xxxvi.
  13. ^ a b Pavlović 1912, p. 573.
  14. ^ Drašković 1987, p. 48.
  15. ^ Vukićević 1907, pp. 87, 90, Novaković 1904, p. 204
  16. ^ Batalaka 1898, p. 165.

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