Ilija P. Smiljanić
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Ilija P. Smiljanić (1620-1654)
Serbian morlaci - uskoci[1] harambasha and serdar and a national hero in Dalmatia from the 17th century who was originally a Serbian who professed the Roman Catholic faith[2] and came from Udbine.
He took part in many fights against Turks during the so-called Candian War (La guerra di Candia), i.e. Sixth Turkish-Venetian war in (1645–1669) as a county serdar and harambasha, and distinguished himself with successful military actions Venetian Republics ( Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia: 697–1797) to Ottoman-Turkish territory in Lici, Krbavi and Dalmatia.
According to the Venetian description of July 14, 1648, we know that Ilija Smiljanić was black-faced, short, stocky, and with a chestnut mustache.[3]
Heroism as a family tradition[edit]
Ilija is the son of Petra Smiljanića, a prominent harambasha born in Lika.
During the "Sixth Venetian-Turkish War", when the burden of defending Dalmatia fell on the Uskoks, he commanded a detachment whose actions, along with other Uskok companies, were of decisive importance for the defense Ravni kotari.
Relying on Venetian territory, his detachment independently or in cooperation with Venetian forces defended the border area but also penetrated deep into Turkish territory.
He successfully used guerrilla warfare.
A significant military action of his Molach / Uskok detachments was the dismantling of Ottoman army at Karlović in 1651.
Near this place, he and his warriors surrounded 5,000 Turks and on that occasion destroyed the city "which had been occupied by the Turks since 1527".
Reduced to the village, the former name of the settlement Karlović was shortened to Korlat ("today it is a part of the city Benkovac").
In terms of merits and successes, Ilija can indisputably be compared to the well-known Morlach-Uskok leaders Vuk Mandušić (16 ?? - 1648), Stojan Janković (1636—1687) and Jovan Sinobad (16 ?? - 1654).
Participation in more famous battles in Dalmatia and its surroundings[edit]
He took part in the victories of the Serbian Morlach army at:
- Šibenik (August-September 1646)[4]
- Drniš (February 1648)[5]
- Vakuf (July 1649)
- Zvonigrad ( September 1649 )
- Bilaj (October 1649)
- Karlovića (1651)
- Ostrovice (1652)
- Udbine (1653)
- Glamoč (1653)
He died on 5 September 1654 in the Vučjak gorge ( on Velebit u ), during a breakthrough in Krbava and Lika.[6][7][8]
Hero of folk songs[edit]
It is sung in numerous folk songs, and the work 'Pleasant conversations of the Slovene people in which the beginning is indicated, and svarha kraglià slovinskì, who fully shouts the rule of all Slovene darxavam, with different letters from kraglià, bànà and Slovene knights. Izvagen iz razlicitì kgnigà, i sloxene u jezik slovinski po Fra Andrii Caçichiu-Miossichiu iz Briista… “ ( Venezia: 1756 ) srpskog plemića i pesnika [[Andrija Kačić Mio
References[edit]
- ↑ ' '„ In his relation submitted to the Venetian college in 1572, the general providur of Dalmatia and Albania, Foscarini, described the neighboring Turkish regions. So at a time when the war between Venice and Turkey is still going on. He sees only two types of population in that territory - Turks in the minority and Christians in the majority. He calls Christians, without distinction, Morlacs, and adds "these Christians are a people of the Serbian faith." " And in footnote 70: " Sono questi popoli christiani de fede serviana. ""; Novak, Grga: (Morlacs (Vlachs) viewed from the Venetian side ") ( Zagreb: Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, 1971, p. 594 )
- ↑ Desnica, Boško: „Stojan Janković i uskoci in Dalmatia " ( Belgrade: Srpska književna zadruga, 1991, p. 67 )
- ↑ Desnica, Boško: "Stojan Janković and the Uskoks in Dalmatia" "(Belgrade: Serbian Literary Association, 1991, p. 63 )
- ↑ „Conversations pleasant to the Slovene people in which the beginning is indicated, and svarha kraglià slovinskì, who fully shouts the rulers of all Slovene darxavam, with different letters from kraglià, bànà and Slovenian knights. Weighed from various kgnigà, and compounded into the Slovene language by Br. Andria Caçichiu-Miossichiu from Brist… “ ( Trieste: Michele Weis, 1831, p. 171 )
- ↑ Desnica, Boško: Stojan Janković and * Uskoks in Dalmatia „ ( Belgrade: Srpska književna zadruga, 1991, p. 49 )
- ↑ Archivio di Stato di Venezia , Senate. Dispacci P. G. in Dalm. et Alb., filza 68-476 ( Venezia, Veneto, Repubblica Italiana: 1946– )
- ↑ Desnica, Boško: Stojan Janković i uskoci u Dalmaciji „ (' 'Belgrade: Srpska književna zadruga, 1991, p. 65' ')
- ↑ Radojčić, Jovan S .:' 'Serbs west of the Danube and Drina - biographies' , Volume 3 Novi Sad : Prometheus, 2009, pp. 589 )
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