The cabinet of

Matija Nenadović Matija Nenadović ( sr-cyrl, Матија Ненадовић, or Mateja Nenadović sr-cyr, Матеја Ненадовић; 26 February 1777 – 11 December 1854), also known as Prota Mateja, was a Serbian archpriest, writer, and politician wh ...

was formed on 27 August 1805. It was the first

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. It held office until April 1807, when it was replaced by the

cabinet of Mladen Milovanović The cabinet of Mladen Milovanović was formed in April 1807. It held office until 31 December 1810, when it was dismissed and replaced by the cabinet of Jakov Nenadović. Timeline The government of Serbia, known then as the Serbian Governing ...

Timeline

Following the

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in 1804, a group of leading Serbs decided to begin an uprising against '' dahijas''; they soon after elected

Đorđe Petrović Đorđe Petrović may refer to: *Karađorđe (1762–1817), Serbian revolutionary *Đorđe Petrović (footballer) Đorđe Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Ђорђе Петровић; born 8 October 1999) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a ...

, a merchant better known as Karađorđe, as their leader. His forces assumed control of

Požarevac Požarevac ( sr-cyr, Пожаревац, ) is a list of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative centre of the Braničevo District in eastern Serbia. It is located between three rivers: Danube, Great Morava and Mlava and below the hill Čač ...

Šabac Šabac ( sr-Cyrl, Шабац, ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative centre of the Mačva District in western Serbia. The traditional centre of the fertile Mačva region, Šabac is located on the right banks of the river ...

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, ...

, and

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, after which they held Austrian-mediated negotiations with the

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in order to secure autonomy for the Serbs. The negotiations broke down in 1805, after which the

Battle of Ivankovac The Battle of Ivankovac () was the first full-scale confrontation between Serbian revolutionaries and the regular forces of the Ottoman Empire during the First Serbian Uprising. In the Summer of 1805, Hafiz the Ottoman pasha of Niš, gathered an ...

occurred, in which the Serb forces were defeated. Dukes

Jakov Nenadović Jakov Nenadović ( sr-cyr, Јаков Ненадовић; 1765–1836) was a Serbian voivode and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Serbia, prime minister of Serbia from 31 December 1810 to 22 January 1811. He was the first Serbian in ...

, Milan Obrenović, and

Sima Marković Sima Marković (8 November 1888 in Kragujevac, Kingdom of Serbia – 19 April 1939 in Moscow, USSR) was a Serbian mathematician, communist and socialist politician and philosopher, known as one of the founders and first leaders of the Communist P ...

, with the assistance of

Adam Jerzy Czartoryski Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (14 January 1770 – 15 July 1861), also known as Adam George Czartoryski, was a Polish szlachta, nobleman, statesman, diplomat and author who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR, Chairman of ...

, the

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of the

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, proposed the creation of a government in order to limit Karađorđe's powers. Karađorđe accepted the formation of the government on conditions that the government would help him with military and foreign policy. This led to the formation of the first government of Serbia, known as the Serbian Governing Council ( sr-cyrl, Правитељствујушчи совјет сербски, Praviteljstvujušči sovjet serbski; ). With the Assembly of Uprising Champions, it represented the authority in Revolutionary Serbia. The government organized and supervised the administration, economy, judiciary, foreign policy, order, and the supply of arms for Serb forces. The founding assembly of the Governing Council was held on 14 August 1805 in Marković's house near

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. Together with his cabinet, Matija Nenadović was appointed president of the Governing Council on 27 August 1805. The government's headquarters were initially at

Voljavča Voljavča ( sr-cyr, Вољавча) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery situated in a dense forest near the Voljavča creek on the northeastern slope of the Rudnik (mountain), Rudnik, near the village of Stragari in central Serbia. The monastery chur ...

and then at

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, although it was later moved to Smederevo.

Composition

The cabinet was composed of 12 representatives from 12

nahiyah A nāḥiyah ( , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiyeh, nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level divisi ...

s from among whom the president was elected every month. Considering that the representatives of the Governing Council changed frequently, it is hard to determine all of its representatives and when they served as representatives. According to historian Radoš Ljušić, the first composition included

Mladen Milovanović Mladen Milovanović ( sr-cyrl, Младен Миловановић; – 1823) was a Serbian merchant and politician who served as the prime minister of Serbia from 1807 to 1810. A notable voivode during the First Serbian Uprising, he briefly se ...

, Avram Lukić, Jovan Protić,

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 ...

, Velisav Stanojlović,

Janko Đurđević Janko Đurđević ( sr-Cyrl, Јанко Ђурђевић; c. 1770 – 1828) was a representative of the Smederevo nahiyah in the cabinets of Matija Nenadović, Mladen Milovanović, and Jakov Nenadović. He was a member of the Great Federal Cour ...

, Đurica Stočić, Milisav Ilijić, Ilija Marković, Vasilije Radojičić, Milutin Vasić, and

Jevta Savić Čotrić Jevta Savić Čotrić ( sr-cyrl, Јевта Савић Чотрић; – 1821) was a Serbian politician and diplomat during the First Serbian Uprising and Second Serbian Uprising who served as a representative of the Zvornik nahiyah in the Cabinet ...

. In late 1805, the cabinet only included

Janko Katić Janko Katić ( sr-cyr, Јанко Катић; fl. 1795–1806†) was a Serbian voivode and one of the organizers of the First Serbian Uprising (1804–1813). He participated in the uprising since day one, and was an important ''oborknez'' of the ...

Milenko Stojković Milenko Stojković ( sr-cyr, Миленко Стојковић; 1769, Kličevac, Požarevac – 1831, Bakhchysarai, Crimea) was a Serbian revolutionary and '' bimbaša'' in the First Serbian Uprising early in the 19th century. He is mos ...

Luka Lazarević Luka Lazarević ( sr-cyr, Лука Лазаревић; 1774–1852), known as Pop-Luka (), was a Serbian Orthodox priest and ''vojvoda'' (commander) that participated in the First Serbian Uprising (1804–13) of the Serbian Revolution against the ...

, and Milan Obrenović, with Nenadović as president. According to

Vuk Karadžić Vuk Stefanović Karadžić ( sr-Cyrl, Вук Стефановић Караџић, ; 6 November 1787 (26 October OS)7 February 1864) was a Serbian philologist, anthropologist and linguist. He was one of the most important reformers of the moder ...

, the following representatives were:

Aftermath

Nenadović stepped down as president of the Governing Council in April 1807. He was succeeded by

, who headed the

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until 1810.

References

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