Živko Dabić (Serbian Cyrillic: Живко Дабић; Jautina, near

Valjevo Valjevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Ваљево, ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Kolubara District in western Serbia. According to the 2022 census, the city itself has a population of 56,145 while the city admini ...

, 1777 - Badovinci,

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, 1808) was a captain ( boluk-bashi) in the

First Serbian Uprising The First Serbian Uprising (; sr-Cyrl, Први српски устанак; ) was an uprising of Serbs in Orašac (Aranđelovac), Orašac against the Ottoman Empire from 14 February 1804 to 7 October 1813. The uprising began as a local revolt ...

under the command of his father-in-law

Jakov Nenadović Jakov Nenadović ( sr-cyr, Јаков Ненадовић; 1765–1836) was a Serbian voivode and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Serbia, prime minister of Serbia from 31 December 1810 to 22 January 1811. He was the first Serbian in ...

. Also, he was a representative of his district in the first Serbian national assembly held in

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near

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in April and May 1804.

Biography

Živko Dabić was born in the village of Jautina in the

nahiya A nāḥiyah ( , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiyeh, nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level divisi ...

of Valjevo in 1777 or 1778. When the uprising against the

Dahije The Dahije ( sr-cyr, Дахије) or Dahijas were the renegade Janissary officers of the Ottoman sultan who took power in the Sanjak of Smederevo, after murdering the Ottoman Vizier Hadži Mustafa Pasha of Belgrade on 15 December 1801. The four ...

Šumadija Šumadija ( sr-Cyrl, Шумадија, ) is a geographical region in the central part of Serbia. The area used to be heavily covered with forests, hence the name (from ''šuma'' 'forest'). The city of Kragujevac is the administrative center of t ...

broke out at the beginning of 1804, the Serbian War of Liberation began. Živko Dabić joined the revolutionaries as an ordinary soldier, fighting side-by-side with his compatriots from Valjevo. Later, he became

's right-hand-man (''Momak'') and as such, was given greater responsibilities in command. On 17 January 1806 Živko Dabić with

Luka Lazarević Luka Lazarević ( sr-cyr, Лука Лазаревић; 1774–1852), known as Pop-Luka (), was a Serbian Orthodox priest and ''vojvoda'' (commander) that participated in the First Serbian Uprising (1804–13) of the Serbian Revolution against the ...

scattered the Turks at the Jadar river near Lešnica.sfn, Milićević, 1888, pp=289–290 The uprising continued to spread over

Kolubara The Kolubara ( sr-cyr, Колубара, ) is a long river in western Serbia; it is an eastern, right tributary to the Sava river. Due to the many long tributaries creating a branchy system within the river's drainage basin, the short Kolubara ...

, with voivodes Jakov Nenadović and Živko Dabić reaching

Šabac Šabac ( sr-Cyrl, Шабац, ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative centre of the Mačva District in western Serbia. The traditional centre of the fertile Mačva region, Šabac is located on the right banks of the river ...

from

. In a short time, Živko Dabić and his senior voivodes Jakov Nenadović and

became among the leading fighters in the Šabac

Nahiya A nāḥiyah ( , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiyeh, nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level divisi ...

. Živko's father-in-law commanded the northwestern Valjevo ''nahiya'' at the time. From 1805, when the rebels fought for liberation, against the

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, Dabić, Nenadović, and Lazarević garnered several important victories with their bravery and strategic tactics. On 6 January 1806 Živko Dabić, Jakov Nenadović, and Luka Lazarević began the siege of Šabac, while

Karađorđe Đorđe Petrović (; ; – ), known by the sobriquet Karađorđe (; ), was a Serbian revolutionary leader who led a struggle against the Ottoman Empire during the First Serbian Uprising. He held the title of Grand Vožd of Serbia from 14 ...

set off from Belgrade to join them; on the way, Karađorđe learned that Ottoman

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n troops were about to cross the

Drina The Drina ( sr-Cyrl, Дрина, ) is a long river in the Balkans, which forms a large portion of the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. It is the longest tributary of the Sava River and the longest karst river in the Dinaric Al ...

and thus immediately dispatched Lazarević.sfn, Nenadović, 1903, p=645 Arriving at Lešnica on 17 January 1806, Živko Dabić under the command of Luka Lazarević defeated the Turks at Ranitovac after a day of fighting, with much of the enemy troops drowning in the Jadar river. He also participated in the Battle of

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on 4 April 1806 with his kin Gaja Dabić. Dabić died in the Battle of Loznica in 1808. His remains were taken from the

battlefield A battlefield, battleground, or field of battle is the location of a present or historic battle involving ground warfare. It is commonly understood to be limited to the point of contact between opposing forces, though battles may involve troop ...

to a cemetery at the Monastery of Kaon.

Sources

* Milan Đ. Milićević, ''Pomenik znamenitih ljudi u srpskog narodu novijega doba,'' Vol 1 (Belgrade, 1888) * Milan Đ. Milićević,''Kneževina Srbija'' (Belgrade, 1878) *

Lazar Arsenijević Batalaka Lazar Arsenijević Batalaka (1793 – 15 January 1869) was a Serbian participant in the First Serbian Uprising who later became a state adviser (from 1842), a diplomatic representative of Serbia to Constantinople (from 1846 to 1847), as well as th ...

, ''Istorija srpskog ustanka'' (Belgrade, 1898) * Konstantin N. Nenadović, ''Život i dela velikog Đorđa Petrovića Kara Đorđa Vrhovnog Vožda...'' (Vienna, 1884) * Record of

Petrović, Belgrade 1848; * Record protocol of the letter priest

Matija Nenadović Matija Nenadović ( sr-cyrl, Матија Ненадовић, or Mateja Nenadović sr-cyr, Матеја Ненадовић; 26 February 1777 – 11 December 1854), also known as Prota Mateja, was a Serbian archpriest, writer, and politician wh ...

on the war along the Drina in 1811, 1812, and 1813, Belgrade 1861; * Memoirs of Matija Nenadović, Belgrade 1867; * I. Stojšić, ''Jedna zaboravljena porodica,'' ''Naša nahija'' (almanah), Belgrade, 1926.

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