Sima Katić Prekodrinac (1783–1833) was a Serbian duke and a participant in the Serbian revolution against the

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. He took part in the Battle of Ravna in August 1813 as part of 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 ...

. When the uprising was suppressed, Sima Katic fled to Austria with many other dukes to escape Ottoman retaliation. He returned to Serbia when the Second Serbian Uprising began in 1815 and settled in Glogovac. There he became a founding member of a newly-built church. Sima Katić remembered Karadjordje generosity when he went to

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after the

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in 1806 and found only three existing churches, Crna Bara, one between Belotić and

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, and the third in Glušci. Karadjordje donated a church bell to each village as gratitude for the people's participation in the uprising.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Katić, Sima 1783 births 1833 deaths People from the Ottoman Empire