Prodan Gligorijević, known simply as Hadži-Prodan ( sr-cyr, Хаџи-Продан Глигоријевић; 1760 – 1825) was a Serbian ''voivode'' (military commander) in the
First Serbian Uprising
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of the
Serbian Revolution
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, then the
Greek War of Independence
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, against the
Ottoman Empire
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. He led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1814, dubbed ''
Hadži Prodan's Revolt''.
Life
Prodan Gligorijević was born around 1760, and he hailed from
Nevade, near
Takovo, modern
Gornji Milanovac
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The town was found ...
(then ''Despotovac''). His epithet, ''
hajji'', derives from honorific title given to Christians that complete the pilgrimage to the
Holy Land
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(
Jerusalem
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).
He joined the fighting in 1806. Prodan participated in the battles of
Sjenica
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Sjenica is si ...
,
Nova Varoš
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,
Prijepolje,
Bijelo Polje, and
Suvodol (1809). After the fall of the uprising (
Hursid Pasha captured
Belgrade in October 1813), his unit stayed in Mučnja for some months. He gave himself up to the Ottomans and settled in the
Trnava monastery
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in
Čačak.
As the Ottoman tyranny continued, he was put to lead the rebellion in the ''
Požega nahija''. His badly organized rebellion against the Ottomans in the
Čačak region in 1814, known as
Hadži Prodan's Revolt, was quickly beaten. He fled first to
Austria
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in 1815, then
Wallachia
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, where he joined the
Greek War of Independence
The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829. The Greeks were later assisted ...
in 1821. He died in 1825.
See also
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Giorgakis Olympios (1772–1821), fellow Greek revolutionary in the First Serbian Uprising and Greek War
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Vasos Mavrovouniotis (1797–1847), fellow Montenegrin Serb revolutionary in the Greek War
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Hadži-Prodan's Cave
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List of Serbian Revolutionaries
This is a list of Serbian Revolutionaries, participants in the Serbian Revolution (1804–1817).
See also
* Serbian revolutionary organizations
References
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Хаџи Продан Глигоријевић војвода Старог ВлахаХаџи Проданова буна
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18th-century Serbian nobility
19th-century Serbian nobility
Serbian revolutionaries
People of the First Serbian Uprising
Serb volunteers in the Greek War of Independence
Šumadija
1760 births
1825 deaths