Marićevića jaruga ("Marićević Gully"), in Orašac,

Aranđelovac Aranđelovac ( sr-cyr, Аранђеловац, ) is a town and a municipality located in the Šumadija District of central Serbia. , the municipality has a population of 41,297 inhabitants, while the town has 22,881 inhabitants. It is situated ben ...

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, is a memorial complex at the site where 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 ...

was agreed upon on 15 February 1804 and

Karađorđe Petrović 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 ...

was chosen as the leader of the uprising (

Orašac Assembly The Orašac Assembly () was the gathering of 300 Serbian chiefs and rebels on (Presentation of Jesus) at Orašac (Aranđelovac), Orašac, a village near Aranđelovac, following the "Slaughter of the Knezes" which saw 70 notable Serbs murdered by t ...

). Marićevića jaruga is visited every year by high-ranking Serbian state officials because the date when the rebellion started, 15 February, is celebrated as the day the modern Serbian state was founded. To commemorate the events related to the start of the uprising, the church in Orašac was built between 1868 and 1870, a Memorial School was built in 1932, a memorial fountain was built in the trench in 1954 to mark the sesquicentennial of the event, and a monument to Karađorđe Petrović was erected in 2004 to commemorate the bicentennial of the uprising. The sculptor

Drinka Radovanović Drinka Radovanović (1943-2022) was a Serbian sculptor. She was a student of the famed Serbian sculptor Matija Vuković. Works Radovanović has created many statues of national heroes, including a monument to Karađorđe Petrović at Marićević ...

created the monument from white

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. In 1979 Marićević Trench was added to the

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list.

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