Sima Marković ( Veliki Borak, 1768 – Belgrade, 22 March 1817) was a Serbian

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who led his men 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 1 ...

. He was one of four leaders of the Belgrade

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along with

Pavle Popović Pavle Popović ( sr-cyr, Павле Поповић; 16 April 1868 – 4 June 1939) was a Serbian literary critic and historian, a professor and rector at the University of Belgrade. He is the brother of Bogdan Popović, also a well-known and equ ...

, Nikola Nikolajević, and

Milisav Čamdžija Milisav Čamdžija, better known as Milisav the Boatman (Čamdžija), (1785 – 1815) was born in the village of Veliki Borak in the Belgrade nahija in 1785. He got the nickname because as a boatman he regularly transported people across the ...

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Marković was a prominent statesman, member and president of the Governing State Council of Serbia (he became president on

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in 1805). He was the

Obor-knez Obor-knez ( sr-Cyrl, обор-кнез) was a title borne by elected local native Serbian chiefs (Knyaz) of the ''nahiyah'' (district of a group of villages) in the Ottoman Sanjak of Smederevo (also known as the Pashalik of Belgrade). The obor-knez ...

of the

Sanjak of Smederevo The Sanjak of Smederevo ( tr, Semendire Sancağı; sr, / ), also known in historiography as the Pashalik of Belgrade ( tr, Belgrad Paşalığı; sr, / ), was an Ottoman administrative unit (sanjak), that existed between the 15th and the out ...

, also known as the Pashalik of Belgrade

in 1793. He was also a participant in Kočina Krajina. In the First Serbian Uprising, he led the army in Ivankovac,

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, Deligrad, in the liberation of

Smederevo Smederevo ( sr-Cyrl, Смедерево, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Podunavlje District in eastern Serbia. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube, about downstream of the Serbian capital, Belgrade. According t ...

and Čokešina. The army of Prince Sima Marković was the first to enter the city of Belgrade on 13 December 1806, during the liberation of Belgrade from the Turks. He became the trustee of the People's Treasury, that is, the first

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in 1811. With Dragić Gorunović and Pavle Cukić, he raised an uprising against Prince

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and the Turks in 1817, but the uprising was suppressed, and he was captured and executed by Marashli Ali Pasha at

Kalemegdan The Kalemegdan Park ( sr, / ), or simply Kalemegdan ( sr-Cyrl, Калемегдан) is the largest park and the most important historical monument in Belgrade. It is located on a cliff, at the junction of the River Sava and the Danube. Ka ...

, on the day of the

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(''Mladence''). Streets in Belgrade, Smederevo and Kragujevac and the street leading to his birthplace, as well as the elementary school in

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, are named after him. "Days of Prince Sima Marković" have been organized in Veliki Borak for more than four decades, at the end of August.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Markovic, Sima 1768 births 1817 deaths Military personnel from Belgrade People of the First Serbian Uprising Serbian military leaders Serbian revolutionaries

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