Petar Dobrnjac
{{Short description|Serbian Vojvoda}}
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|native_name = Петар Теодоровић
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|birth_date = {{birth-year|1771}}
|birth_place = Dobrnje, Sanjak of Smederevo, Ottoman Empire
|death_date = {{death-year|1831}} (aged 60)
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|allegiance = {{flagicon image|Flag of Revolutionary Serbia.svg}} Revolutionary Serbia
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Petar Teodorović ({{lang-sr-cyr|Петар Теодоровић}}; 1771–1831),{{cite book |last1=Balkanski |first1=Ostoja Gordanić |title=Renovators of Serbian State, 1804-1839: Reliefs |date=2004 |publisher=Historical Museum of Serbia |isbn=978-86-82925-06-4 |page=52 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7XFpAAAAMAAJ&q=Petar+Dobrnjac+%221771%22 |access-date=7 February 2024 |language=en}} known as Petar Dobrnjac (Петар Добрњац) was a Serbian Vojvoda in the First Serbian Uprising. He was born in the Požarevac nahija, in the village of Dobrnje, Petrovac.{{cite book |title=Konflikt und Koexistenz |date=30 April 2017 |publisher=Klostermann |isbn=978-3-465-04310-2 |url=https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783465143109/konflikt-und-koexistenz?q=Dobrnje&page=1 |chapter=The Beginning of Serbian Constitutionality |doi=10.5771/9783465143109 |access-date=7 February 2024 |language=de |editor-last1=Simon |editor-last2=Bender |editor-last3=Kirov |editor-first1=Thomas |editor-first2=Gerd |editor-first3=Juri }} In his youth, he was a hajduk, and later a trader in farm animals. He had a brother Stevan Dobrnjac who with Marko Todorović launched a short-lived revolt against Miloš Obrenović in 1821.{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Sir Duncan |title=The Life and Times of Vuk Stefanović Karadzić, 1787-1864: Literacy, Literature, and National Independence in Serbia |date=1986 |publisher=Michigan Slavic Publications |isbn=978-0-930042-63-9 |page=168 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TNBgAAAAMAAJ&q=Stevan%20Dobrnjac%20 |access-date=7 February 2024 |language=en}}
Role in the Uprising
In 1804, the year of the First Serbian Uprising, he was a Buljubaša, the commander of a četa (company), under Milenko Stojković.{{cite book |last1=Nenadović |first1=Konstantin N. |title=Život i dela velikog Dorda Petrovića Kara|date=1884 |publisher=Jovana N.'s Publishing House |page=795 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N1ILAAAAIAAJ&dq=%E2%80%9E1804%E2%80%9D+%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80+%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%9A%D0%B0%D1%86+%D0%91%D1%83%D1%99%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B0&pg=PA795 |access-date=7 February 2024 |language=sr}} In 1805 he took part in the Battle of Ivankovac against Hafuz Pasha.{{cite book |title=Fourteen Centuries of Struggle for Freedom |date=1968 |publisher=Belgrade Military Museum |page=xxxi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2m8MAQAAMAAJ}} On his initiative Serbs came to the idea to fortify themself in the battle which proved crucial for Serbian victory.{{cite book |last1=Суботић |first1=Војислав |title=Меморијали ослободилачких ратова Србије, Book 1, Volumes 1-2 |date=2006 |publisher=Влада Републике Србије, Министарство рада, запошљавања и социјалне политике |isbn=9788676860678 |page=101 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7uPVAAAAMAAJ}}{{cite book |last1=Stanojević |first1=Ljiljana |title=The First Serbian Uprising and the Restoration of the Serbian State |date=2004 |publisher=Historical Museum of Serbia, Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts |isbn=9788670253711 |page=57 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eXFpAAAAMAAJ}} Afterwards, the Governing Council-Soviet (Правитељствујушчи совјет) awarded him the rank of Bimbaša (a commander of 1000 men) and Vojvoda.{{cn|date=July 2024}}
After the Battle of Deligrad in 1806 against Ibrahim Bushati, pasha of Scutari, he became one of the most important men in Serbia.
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Category:People from the Ottoman Empire
Category:18th-century Serbian people
Category:19th-century Serbian people
Category:People from Petrovac, Serbia
Category:Military personnel from Požarevac
Category:Politicians from Požarevac
Category:People of the First Serbian Uprising
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