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Jakov Nenadović

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Jakov Nenadović
Јаков Ненадовић
Minister of Internal Affairs
In office
1811–1813
MonarchKarađorđe
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byKarađorđe
Prime Minister of Serbia
In office
31 December 1810 – 22 January 1811
Preceded byMladen Milovanović
Succeeded byKarađorđe
Personal details
Born1765
Brankovina, Ottoman Empire
Died1836 (aged 71)
Vienna, Austria
Political partyIndependent
Military service
AllegianceRevolutionary Serbia
Years of service1804–1814
Battles/warsSvileuva

Jakov Nenadović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јаков Ненадовић; 1765–1836) was a Serbian voivode and politician who served as the prime minister of Serbia from 31 December 1810 to 22 January 1811. He was the first Serbian interior minister. Nenadović was the most influential figure in Serbia at the time beside Karađorđe, his greatest rival, and Janko Katić.[1]

Life

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Jakov was the younger brother of Aleksa Nenadović (1749–1804), a Serbian nobleman who held a province around Valjevo.[2] He was grandnephew of Grigorije Nenadović, metropolitan of Raška and Valjevo. His brother was executed in the Slaughter of the Dukes on January 31, 1804, which sparked the First Serbian Uprising.

Jakov immediately joined the Serbian rebels, and after the victory in Svileuva (1804) he became one of the most distinguished commanders and persons of western Serbia.[3] He acquired his ammunitions and weapons from Syrmia, then part of Austria. In March 1804, he attacked Šabac. Jakov was one of the founders of the Praviteljstvujušči sovjet serbski (Serbian government), of which Prota Mateja Nenadović, his nephew (the son of Aleksa), was the first Prime Minister. He headed the government of Serbia from 1810 to 1811.

Coat of Arms on Jakov's Tower.

In 1813, for the purpose of armory, a tower bearing the Nenadović name was built next to a road leading to Šabac, at the edge of Kličevac hill, by Jakov and his son Jevrem. After the failed uprising, Nenadović followed Karadjordje to Bessarabia in 1814, and in 1816 to Imperial Russia in St. Peterburg to confer with Tsar Alexander I of Russia over the state of affairs in the Balkans, then re-occupied by the Ottoman Turks. Later on, he settled in Vienna, where he died in 1836. His granddaughter, Persida Nenadović (the daughter of Jevrem), married Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia, the son of Karadjordje.

References

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  1. ^ Petrovich, Michael Boro (1976). A History of Modern Serbia, 1804-1918. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. pp. 46–50. ISBN 978-0-15-140950-1.
  2. ^ Archiprêtre Matija Nenadović et son époque (in Serbian and French). Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti. 1985. p. 200.
  3. ^ Jelavich, Charles; Jelavich, Barbara (2012-09-20). The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804-1920. University of Washington Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-295-80360-9.
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Government offices
Preceded by Prime Minister of Serbia
1810–1811
Succeeded by