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The Serbian secret organization in eastern Bosnia () was a
Serb The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to Southeastern Europe who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history, and language. They primarily live in Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia ...
secret revolutionary organization active in 1849–55 in the eastern
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–the ''kaza'' of
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,
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,
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and
Nova Varoš Nova Varoš ( sr-cyr, Нова Варош, ) is a town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of southwestern Serbia. The municipality of Nova Varoš has a population of 13,507, while the town of Nova Varoš itself has a population of ...
. It was part of a larger network of organizations active in Ottoman Europe (
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), envisaged by Serbian politician
Ilija Garašanin Ilija Garašanin ( sr-cyr, Илија Гарашанин; 28 January 1812 – 22 June 1874) was a Serbian statesman who served as the prime minister of Serbia between 1852 and 1853 and again from 1861 to 1867. Ilija Garašanin was conservati ...
. The aim of the organization was to prepare an uprising against Ottoman rule. Pavle Marinović was responsible for eastern Bosnia, and was subordinated to Toma Kovačević, Garašanin's man responsible for Bosnia as a whole. Marinović established the organization network in the four kazas in eastern Bosnia in the second half of 1849 and in 1850, and appointed chiefs of each kaza that reported on numbers of Orthodox and Muslim men, the relief, strategical objects and Ottoman military forces. It was concluded that half of the Serb population there were well-armed and ready to revolt. However, as Serbia did not pursue a war of liberation against the Ottomans, in 1851 the organization turned into an
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. The organization's failure was largely due to lack of funds.


Members

The following were members whose names and duties are known: * Pavle Marinović, organizer *Vuk Nešković, chief in Višegrad kaza *Sava Jovičić, chief in Višegrad kaza, also duty in Nova Varoš *Filip Ravanac, chief in Srebrenica kaza *Petar Borovčan, chief in Srebrenica kaza *Ilija Borovčan, chief in Srebrenica kaza *Nikola, chief in Srebrenica kaza *Mihailo Soldat, chief in Srebrenica kaza *Marko, priest of Lipovac, chief in Vlasenica kaza *Ilija, priest of Glasinac, chief in Glasinac kaza


See also

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Serb revolutionary organizations This list includes revolutionary organizations aimed at liberating and unifying Serb-inhabited territories into the historical national state of Serbia—it only includes organizations established after the Principality of Serbia (1815) and before t ...
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Secret society A secret society is an organization about which the activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence. The term usually excludes covert groups, such as intelligence ag ...


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