Milić Drinčić (

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, Rudnička

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, 1775 Dublje, 14 July 1815) was a duke and revolutionary who participated in the

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and

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Biography

At the beginning of the first Serbian uprising in 1804, he took part in Milan Obrenović's led attack on the mining town and soon achieved the rank of boluk-bashi. He distinguished himself in the battles near

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in 1805 and

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in 1807. At that time, Rudnička

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had four principalities: Brusnička, Morava, Kačer and

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- headed by Milić Drinčić. The commander of all the mentioned principalities was Duke

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. In 1811, he became the

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of Podgora the Montenegrin principality (the area around Takovo), and in 1813 he did not escape but surrendered to the Turks, but he was constantly on guard and in 1814 seeing that his life was in danger he defected and hid in the mountains. Only ten months after the failed

, on August 8, 1814, a meeting of knezes and voivodes took place in

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with the likes of Milić Drinčić, Radovan Grbović, Aksentije Miladinović, Lazar Mutap,

Arsenije Loma Arsenije Loma ( sr-cyr, Арсеније Лома; 1768–1815) was a Serbian ''voivode'' (military commander) in the First and Second Serbian Uprising of the Serbian Revolution (1804–1817). He was appointed by Karađorđe to command Kačer ...

, Vasilije Jovanović, Panta Ilić, Milivoje Tadić, Vasilije Pavlović, Georgije Lazarević, and of course

, who inaugurated the second insurgency. and attended the meeting followed by other meetings in Rudovci and Vreoci, the meeting in Takovo. As soon as the Second Serbian Uprising broke out, Drinčić and his

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successfully suppressed the Turks and contributed a lot to the victory of the insurgents in the decisive battles of both Ljubić and Dublje, where he was killed. He was killed on gate of Turkish redoubt during battle of Dublje.

Literature

*Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Materials for Serbian History, Belgrade 1898. *

References

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