Petar Teodorović ( sr-cyr, Петар Теодоровић; 1771–1831), known as Petar Dobrnjac (Петар Добрњац) was a

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

n Vojvoda in the

First Serbian Uprising The First Serbian Uprising ( sr, Prvi srpski ustanak, italics=yes, sr-Cyrl, Први српски устанак; tr, Birinci Sırp Ayaklanması) was an uprising of Serbs in the Sanjak of Smederevo against the Ottoman Empire from 14 February 18 ...

. He was born in the

Požarevac Požarevac ( sr-cyr, Пожаревац, ) is a city and the administrative centre of the Braničevo District in eastern Serbia. It is located between three rivers: Danube, Great Morava and Mlava and below the hill Čačalica (208m). As of 2011, ...

nahija, in the village of Dobrnje, Petrovac. In his youth, he was a

hajduk A hajduk ( hu, hajdúk, plural of ) is a type of irregular infantry found in Central and parts of Southeast Europe from the late 16th to mid 19th centuries. They have reputations ranging from bandits to freedom fighters depending on time, p ...

, and later a trader in farm animals.

Role in the Uprising

In 1804, the year of the First Serbian Uprising, he was a

Buljubaša Boluk-bashi ( tr, bölükbaşı) was an Ottoman officer rank equivalent to captain (see Military of the Ottoman Empire). The holder was in command of a ''bölük'', a sub-division of a regiment. It was higher than ''oda-bashi'' (lieutenant). __NOTOC ...

, the commander of a

četa A cheta ( sq, çeta; rup, ceatã; bg, чета; gr, τσέτης; ro, ceată; tr, çete; sr, чета / ), in plural chetas, was an armed band organized by the mostly Bulgarian, Serbian, Albanian, Greek, Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian p ...

(company), under

Milenko Stojković Milenko Stojković ( sr-cyr, Миленко Стојковић; 1769, Kličevac, Požarevac – 1831, Bakhchysarai, Crimea) was a Serbian revolutionary and ''bimbaša'' in the First Serbian Uprising early in the 19th century. He is most fa ...

. In 1805 he took part in the

Battle of Ivankovac The Battle of Ivankovac ( sr, Бој на Иванковцу/Boj na Ivankovcu) was the first full-scale confrontation between Serbian revolutionaries and the regular forces of the Ottoman Empire during the First Serbian Uprising. In the Summer o ...

against Hafiz-paša, after which the Правитељствујушчи совјет awarded him the rank of

Bimbaša A ''binbashi'', alternatively ''bimbashi'', (from tr, Binbaşı, "chief of a thousand", " chiliarch") is a major in the Turkish army, of which term originated in the Ottoman army. The title was also used for a major in the Khedivial Egyptian ...

(a commander of 1000 men) and Vojvoda. On his initiative Serbs came to the idea to fortify themself in the battle of Ivankovac, which was crucial for Serbian victory. After the

Battle of Deligrad The Battle of Deligrad was fought between Serbian revolutionaries and an army of the Ottoman Empire, and took place in December 1806 during the First Serbian Uprising. A 55,000-strong Ottoman army commanded by Albanian Pasha of Scutari Ibrahim P ...

in 1806 against

Ibrahim Bushati Ibrahim Bushati or Ibrahim Bushat Pasha ( tr, Buşatlı İbrahim Paşa; died 1810) was a noble of the Bushati family in Ottoman controlled Albania near the city of Shkodër. Brother of Kara Mahmud Bushati, the Ottoman appointed governor of Shkod ...

, pasha of Scutari, he became one of the most important men in

Role in the Uprising

See also