Sava Dedobarac(Serbian Cyrillic: Сава Дедобарац) was a boluk-bashi of the insurgents in the First Serbian Uprising in the vicinity of Grdelica. He fought under the direct command of Ilija Strelja, appointed by leader Karađorđe as the commander of the right wing of the southern insurgent front. He is enumerated in Serbian epic poetry.

Sava was named after the village of Dedina Bara, where he died in defense against the Turks in 1807[1]. It is very likely that he is from Dedina Bara, evidenced from the Cvetković family and the Vučić family, while some sources also mention Sejanica as his birthplace[2].

In one of the records, it is stated that Ilija Petrović Strelja in the liberated Šumadija gathered in his army people who escaped from the south of present-day Serbia. Thus, "a certain Sava from Dedina Bara" was among the first to approach Strelja with about 450 other men (Bećarians or in colloquial Serbian meaning "colleagues"). In this source, it is stated that the insurgents from the south were led by Ilija Strelja together with Sava Dedobarec and Cvetko Popović-Vranovački[3].


He used Sava Dedobarac as his nome de guerre during the uprising, though his baptismal name was Dragutin[4].

Owing to the great commotion among Strelja's insurgents and among the people of the south, Strelja was forced to give up further expansion of the uprising and to return to Karađorđe's Serbia right after Dedobarac and his company perished at the inn, gutted by the Turks. Milan Đ. Milićević [5], based on the witness account of the insurgent Ceka Vlasotinčanin, who vividly described the dramatic abandonment of Vlasotince by Ilija Strelja.

Sources

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  • Milan Đ. Milićević, Pomenik znamenitih ljudi u srpskog narodu novijega doba, Vol 1 (Belgrade, 1888)[6]
  • Milan Đ. Milićević,Kneževina Srbija (Belgrade, 1878)[7]
  • Lazar Arsenijević Batalaka, Istorija srpskog ustanka (Belgrade, 1898)[8]
  • Konstantin N. Nenadović, Život i dela velikog Đorđa Petrovića Kara Đorđa Vrhovnog Vožda... (Vienna, 1884)[9]
  • Michael Boro Petrovich, "A History of Modern Serbia, 1804-1918", Vol. 1 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York,1976)


References

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  • Translated and adapted from Serbian Wikipedia: https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86
  1. ^ cite journal |last 1= Stanojević |first1=А.М. |journal=Delo | date=1897 |volume=13-14
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  3. ^ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Leskovac_i_leskova%C4%8Dka_nahija_u_XIX_veku/vKCAAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0+%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86)&dq=%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0+%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86)&printsec=frontcover
  4. ^ name=":0">cite book |last1=Симоновић |first1=Милан |title=Море, пуче пушка |date=2007 |publisher=Феликс |location=Лесковац |page=26
  5. ^ name=":1"> Cite book|title=Поменик знаменитих људи у српског народа новијега доба|last= Милићевић|first=Милан|publisher=Издање Чупићеве задужбине|year=1888
  6. ^ Milićević, Milan Đ (November 23, 1888). "Pomenik znamenitih ljudi u srpskog naroda novijega doba". u Srpskoj kraljevskoj štampariji – via Google Books.
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