Orašac () is a village in the
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
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of
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 ...
in Central
Serbia
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. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 1462 people. It is best known as the starting point of 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 ...
in 1804, as the site of the
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 ...
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American anthropologists
Joel and
Barbara Halpern wrote an extensive body of papers and books about Orašac. The books include ''A Serbian Village'' (1958) and ''A Serbian Village in Historical Perspective'' (1986).
Gallery
File:View over the Sumadijan landscape.jpg, View over Sumadija in Orasac
File:Orašac - OŠ i spomenik voždu Karađorđu.jpg, Karadjordje monument
References
External links
Selected Works of Joel M. Halpern: Chapter 1, Selected Papers on a Serbian Village: Social Structure as Reflected by History, Demography and Oral TraditionSelected Works of Joel M. Halpern: Comparative Dynamics of a Traditional Serbian Village: Oraciac 1863 to 1975
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Šumadija
Populated places in Šumadija District
First Serbian Uprising
Open-air museums in Serbia