The United Serb Youth ( sr, Уједињена омладина српска, Ujedinjena omladina srpska), also known as ''Omladina'' ("the Youth"), was a diverse progressive Serbian political, cultural and national movement active between 1866 and 1872 among Prečani Serbs in

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as well as among Serbs in the

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itself. It was founded on the initiative of

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based Zora association at the congress of 16 youth organizations which took place in

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(at the time center of

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) between 15 and 18 August 1866. Alongside promotion of Serb emancipation and liberation the movement was also expressly

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advocating primarily for South Slavic cooperation. Numerous future prominent Serbian writera who participated in the group's work included among others

Laza Kostić Lazar "Laza" Kostić ( sr-Cyrl, Лазар "Лаза" Костић; 12 February 1841 – 27 November 1910) was a Serbian poet, prose writer, lawyer, aesthetician, journalist, publicist, and politician who is considered to be one of the greatest ...

and

Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Jovan Jovanović Zmaj ( sr-cyr, Јован Јовановић Змаj, pronounced ; 24 November 1833 – 1 June 1904) was a Serbian poet. Jovanović worked as a physician; he wrote in many poetry genres, including love, lyric, patriotic, poli ...

. Its slogan was "Srpstvo sve i svuda" (

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all and everywhere). Two of its most prominent factions were liberal wing whose leader was Vladimir Jovanović and revolutionary wing with

Svetozar Marković Svetozar Marković ( sr-Cyrl, Светозар Марковић, ; 9 September 1846 – 26 February 1875) was a Serbian political activist, literary critic and socialist philosopher. He developed an activistic anthropological philosophy wit ...

. The group was also notable for its rejection of conservative clericalism, and acceptance of linguistic ideas of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić. When the organization was banned both in the

and in

, the seat of Omladina became Cetinje, in the

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. Their ideas were propagated in ''Glas Crnogorca'', ''Cetinjski Vjesnik'', and ''Pančevac''. The Association for Serb Liberation and Unification was founded by members of the United Serbian Youth and other people from all over the Serbian lands. United Serbian Youth, modeled after

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's ''Giovane Italia'', with whom they directly collaborated, was one of the first organizations to raise the question of women's emancipation. The first Serbian women's society was established in Novi Sad, then part of Hungarian-controlled

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in 1864. After that a new, powerful political group also of liberal political orientation was formed by the Serbs of Vojvodina, with its leader

Svetozar Miletić Svetozar Miletić ( sr-cyr, Светозар Милетић; 22 February 1826 – 4 February 1901) was a Serbian lawyer, journalist, author and politician who served as the mayor of Novi Sad between 1861 and 1862 and again from 1867 to 1868. ...

, which appeared at assemblies in

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(1861, 1864). Miletić's supporters collaborated with the liberal Jovan Djordjević's journal ''Srbski dnevnik'' ("Serbian Diary"), spreading their ideas, like Miletić's own journal ''Zastava'' ("Flag") as well as founding various societies preceding the United Serbian Youth. The most important among these was the first society of pupils and students, ''Preodnica'' ("Predecessor"), founded in Pest in 1861 as well as the imitator of the United Serbian Youth, the society ''Zora'' ("Dawn"), founded in Vienna in 1862.

Members

In 1866, some 400 representatives of Serb youth from Serbian-populated territories ("Serb lands") met in Novi Sad and founded the United Serb Youth. Among notable members were: * Aleksandar Sandić * Jevrem Grujić *

Nikola Pašić Nikola Pašić ( sr-Cyrl, Никола Пашић, ; 18 December 1845 – 10 December 1926) was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and diplomat who was a leading political figure for almost 40 years. He was the leader of the People's Radical ...

Nikola I Petrović Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš ( sr-cyr, Никола I Петровић-Његош; – 1 March 1921) was the last monarch of Montenegro from 1860 to 1918, reigning as prince from 1860 to 1910 and as the country's first and only king from 1910 to 19 ...

of Montenegro * Marko Miljanov Popović *

Mašo Vrbica Mašo Vrbica ( sr-Cyrl, Машо Врбица; 1833 in Vrba – 10 May 1898 in Banja Luka) was a Montenegrin '' vojvoda'' and military commander. Biography He graduated from the Mikhailovskaya Artillery Military Academy in St. Petersburg. After ...

Lazar Tomanović Lazar Tomanović, PhD (; 3 September 1845 – 2 November 1932) was a Montenegrin and Dalmatian Serb writer, politician and diplomat, who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Montenegro, as well the first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Monteneg ...

* Antonije Hadžić * Vladimir Jovanović *

Valtazar Bogišić Valtazar Bogišić ( sr-Cyrl, Валтазар Богишић; 20 December 1834 – 24 April 1908), also known as Baltazar Bogišić, was a Serbian jurist and a pioneer in sociology. In the domain of private law his most notable research was on ...

* Draga Dejanović *

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* Sava Bjelanović * Alimpije Vasiljević * Milan Kujundžić Aberdar * Gligorije "Giga" Geršić * Jovan Turoma

Annotations

*Also ''United Serbian Youth''.

Members

See also

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