Aleksa Nenadović (1749 Brankovina,

Sanjak of Smederevo The Sanjak of Smederevo (, ), also known in historiography as the Pashalik of Belgrade (, ), was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman administrative unit (sanjak) centered on Smederevo, that existed between the 15th and the outset of the 19th centuries. It ...

— 4 February 1804,

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) was ober knyaz of Tamnava—

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district of Valjevo

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of the

Belgrade Pashaluk Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...

Family

Aleksa Nenadović was a member of the Nenadović family from Valjevo. His younger brother was Jakov Nenadović, the first Serbian Interior Minister and voivode (military commander) in 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 ...

. His sons were Sima Nenadović who was a Serbian voivode in the

Second Serbian Uprising The Second Serbian Uprising ( / ''Drugi srpski ustanak'', ) was the second phase of the Serbian Revolution against the Ottoman Empire, which erupted shortly after the re-annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire in 1813. The occupation was ...

and Matija Nenadović, a Serbian archpriest, writer, and a notable leader of the First Serbian Uprising.

Biography

Aleksa Nenadović had business relations with Hadži Mustafa Pasha who was a vizier of the Belgrade Pashaluk. He also cooperated with Peter Ichko who saved his life once. In the summer of 1797

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appointed Mustafa Pasha on position of beglerbeg of

Rumelia Eyalet The Eyalet of Rumeli, or Eyalet of Rumelia (), known as the Beylerbeylik of Rumeli until 1591, was a first-level province ('' beylerbeylik'' or ''eyalet'') of the Ottoman Empire encompassing most of the Balkans ("Rumelia"). For most of its history ...

and he left Serbia for

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to fight against Pazvantoğlu. During the absence of Mustafa Pasha the forces of Pazvantoğlu together with Janissaries captured Požarevac and besieged Belgrade fortress. At the end of November 1797 Aleksa Nenadović together with other ober knezes from

Ilija Birčanin and Nikola Grbović brought their forces to Belgrade and forced besieging Janissary forces to retreat to

Smederevo Smederevo ( sr-Cyrl, Смедерево, ) is a list of cities in Serbia, 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, ...

Death

He was executed by

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along with Ilija Birčanin by the

Dahije The Dahije ( sr-cyr, Дахије) or Dahijas were the renegade Janissary officers of the Ottoman sultan who took power in the Sanjak of Smederevo, after murdering the Ottoman Vizier Hadži Mustafa Pasha of Belgrade on 15 December 1801. The four ...

in an event known as the Slaughter of the Knezes in which over 72 Serbs were murdered from 23 to 29 January 1804. This event, in turn, triggered the

. When he was killed, Mehmed-aga Fočić, who was a part of the Dahije, put his head, along with others, on his chardak.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nenadovic, Aleksa People of the First Serbian Uprising 19th-century Serbian people Aleksa Military personnel from Valjevo 1749 births 1804 deaths 18th-century Freikorps Serbian murder victims Murder victims from the Ottoman Empire Serbs from the Ottoman Empire Deaths by decapitation