Prodan Gligorijević, known simply as Hadži-Prodan ( sr-cyr, Хаџи-Продан Глигоријевић; c. 1760 – 1825) was a Serbian ''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 ...

of the

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, then the

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, against the

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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

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. His epithet, ''

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'', derives from honorific title given to Christians that complete the pilgrimage to the

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(

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). He joined the fighting in 1806. Prodan participated in the battles of

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, and Suvodol (1809). After the fall of the uprising (

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captured

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in October 1813), his unit stayed in Mučnja for some months. He gave himself up to the Ottomans and settled in the

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. 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

region in 1814, known as Hadži Prodan's Revolt, was quickly beaten. He fled first to

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in 1815, then

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, where he joined the

in 1821. He died in 1825.

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Хаџи Продан Глигоријевић војвода Старог Влаха

Хаџи Проданова буна
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hadzi-Prodan 18th-century Serbian nobility 19th-century Serbian nobility Serbian revolutionaries People of the First Serbian Uprising Serb volunteers in the Greek War of Independence Soldiers in Tudor Vladimirescu's army Šumadija 1760s births 1825 deaths

Life

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