Todor Vojinović
{{Short description|Serbian revolutionary (1760–1813)}}
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Todor Vojinović (c. 1760–1813) was a Serbian voivode and a revolutionary during the First Serbian Uprising. He was killed while fighting the Ottoman Turks in Serbia in 1813.{{cite book |last1=Jovanović |first1=Dobrivoje |title=Jagodinska, Ćuprijska i Paraćinska nahija u Prvom i Drugom srpskom ustanku |date=2009 |publisher=Istorijski Arhiv |isbn=9788687479050}}
Todor Vojinović was born around 1760 in Gornji Dobrić, a village in today's municipality of Loznica in western Serbia's Mačva district, but then part of Jadar nahija. He was a veteran fighter, a Boluk-bashi (an Ottoman officer rank equivalent to captain) of the Serbian Free Corps that fought the Ottomans during Koča Anđelković frontier rebellion and the Austro-Turkish War (1787–1791). The Serbian Corps liberated a part of the Sanjak of Smederevo, which became part of Habsburg-occupied Serbia (1788–1792).
In 1804, Đorđe Ćurčija took Jadar and Rača from the Tuks and named Vojinović Boluk-bashi of the right bank of the Jadar region. From then on, Vojinović remained the only senior military commander at Jadar until Anta Bogićević.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6XFgAAAAMAAJ&q=Anta+Bogi%C4%87evi%C4%87|title=Australian Slavonic and East European Studies: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Slavists' Association and of the Australasian Association for Study of the Socialist Countries|date=January 31, 1990|publisher=Department of Russian and Language Studies, University of Melbourne|via=Google Books}} elevated him to the rank of Voivode. When Karađorđe's insurrection failed, Vojinović was captured by the Turkish occupying forces and was summarily hanged in 1813.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kskDAAAAYAAJ&q=%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80+%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%98%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%9B&pg=RA1-PA138|title=Srpska književna zadruga (Series)|date=January 31, 1899|via=Google Books}}
Sources
- {{cite book|last=Morison|first=W. A.|title=The Revolt of the Serbs Against the Turks: (1804–1813)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qklfco35FIgC|year=2012|orig-year=1942|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-67606-0}}
- {{cite book|last=Petrovich|first=Michael Boro|year=1976|title=A history of modern Serbia, 1804-1918|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_LQ__2wOj8kC|publisher=Harcourt Brace Jovanovich|isbn=9780151409501}}
- {{cite book|last=Ranke|first=Leopold von|title=History of Servia, and the Servian Revolution: From Original Mss. and Documents|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_m0QLAAAAIAAJ|year=1847|publisher=J. Murray}}
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Category:People from the Ottoman Empire
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