''Vostani Serbije'' ("Arise, Serbia"; sr-Cyrl, Востани Сербије; ''Ustani Srbijo''; sr-Cyrl, Устани Србијо), also known as ''Pesna na insurekciju Serbijanov'' ("A poem on the insurrection of the Serbs"; sr-Cyrl, Песна на инсурекцију Сербијанов), is a Serbian patriotic song, originally a poem written by

Dositej Obradović Dositej Obradović ( sr-Cyrl, Доситеј Обрадовић; 17 February 1739 – 7 April 1811) was a Serbian writer, biographer, diarist, philosopher, pedagogue, educational reformer, linguist, polyglot and the first minister of education ...

(1739–1811), published in Vienna in 1804, "dedicated to Serbia and her brave warriors and sons and to their leader Georgije Petrović" at the beginning of 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 ...

that transformed into the

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against the

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. Obradović, delighted, he happily and sincerely greeted the Serb uprising with this special, patriotic poem. Obradović extensively used the concept of " Mother Serbia" in his works, including this poem. Of his poems, ''Vostani Serbije'' is the most patriotic. In it, he calls on a new Serbia, with overtones of memory on the

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which had been long gone. Obradović became the first Minister of Education of

Revolutionary Serbia Revolutionary Serbia ( sr, Устаничка Србија / Ustanička Srbija), or Karađorđe's Serbia ( sr, Карађорђева Србија / Karađorđeva Srbija), refers to the state established by the Serbian revolutionaries in Ottoman ...

. '' Bože pravde'' was the anthem of the

Principality of Serbia The Principality of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl, Књажество Србија, Knjažestvo Srbija) was an autonomous state in the Balkans that came into existence as a result of the Serbian Revolution, which lasted between 1804 and 1817. Its creation wa ...

and the Kingdom of Serbia until 1918 when the

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was formed. In 1992, ''Vostani Serbije'' and '' March on the Drina'' were proposed as the anthem of Serbia along with ''Bоže pravde''. The latter, promulgated by then-ruling

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, even received a plurality of popular vote on

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, but it never got officially adopted, until 2004. Ahead of the 2000 parliamentary election in Serbia, an altered version of the song was used in campaigns (''...you have slept enough, and joked enough, now wake up, and awaken the Serbs, to vote!''). It is one of the best known patriotic songs in the country, and for some time it was considered as a potential national anthem following the replacement of the old Yugoslav anthem ''Hej Sloveni'' following the break-up of Yugoslavia. The song was set to music written by Vartkes Baronijan, Z. Vauda and Ljuba Manasijević.Iz licnog ugla
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