Antonije Ristić-Pljakić ( sr-cyr, Антоније Ристић-Пљакић) was

Karađorđe Đorđe Petrović (; ; – ), known by the sobriquet Karađorđe (; ), was a Serbian revolutionary leader who led a struggle against the Ottoman Empire during the First Serbian Uprising. He held the title of Grand Vožd of Serbia from 14 ...

's duke and son-in-law. He was from Kamenica in

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. He died in 1832. At the beginning of 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 ...

, during the conquest of Rudnik on February 27 and 28, 1804, Antonije killed the

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''museli'' (Turkish chief of police for Kraljevo) at Pljakovo after which he was nicknamed Pljakić. Antonije Ristić, nicknamed Pljakić, married in 1806 Karađorđević's eldest daughter Savka Karađorđević, with whom he had four sons and one daughter. As the Duke of Karanovac in 1813, he was also the commander-in-chief of the reserves and the duke over the nahijas of Požega, Pazar,

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and one of Hadži-Prodan's Old Vlach principalities. In Karanovac, in the very trench named after him, he had a house in which he lived until the collapse of the First Serbian Uprising and the transition to Austria, and then to

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, where he settled and later died on his way back to

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