The cabinet of

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 ...

was formed in April 1807. It held office until 31 December 1810, when it was dismissed and replaced by the

cabinet of Jakov Nenadović The cabinet of Jakov Nenadović was formed on 31 December 1810 after the dismissal of Mladen Milovanović. It held office until 11 January 1811, when it was dismissed and replaced by the Cabinet of Karađorđe Petrović, cabinet of Đorđe Petro ...

Timeline

The government of Serbia, known then as the Serbian Governing Council ( sr-cyrl, Правитељствујушчи совјет сербски, Praviteljstvujušči sovjet serbski; ), was formed in 1805. 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 ...

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 ...

, 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

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, the

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of the

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, proposed the creation of a government in order to limit

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 powers. Karađorđe accepted the formation of the government on conditions that the government would help him with military and foreign policy. 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. Matija Nenadović headed his

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until April 1807, when the office was taken over by

. The government's headquarters were in

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Composition

The cabinet was composed of 13 representatives from 13 nahiyahs from among whom the president was elected every month. In 1809, Stojan Pavlović, the Rudnik nahiyah representative, was replaced by Milan Obrenović. The following composition is according to an Austrian report from 1808: Pavle Popović, Velisav Perić, Vasilije Jović, Janko Đurđević, Dositej Obradović, and Ilija Marković served as representatives in November 1810, with Milovanović as president. Stevan Filipović and Mihailo Grujović were secretaries.

Aftermath

On the

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in 1810, voivode

brought in around six hundred armed men into the Assembly of Uprising Champions in order to force Karađorđe to dismiss Milovanović as the president of the Governing Council. Nenadović succeeded and became the president of the Governing Council. This is disputed by historian Radoš Ljušić, who says that Nenadović became president in 1809.

References

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