Draft:Stevan Katić (revolutionary)


Stevan Katić (Serbian Cyrillic: Стеван Катић; Rogača, Ottoman Empire, c. 1785 - Rogača, Revolutionary Serbia, 24 April 1813) was a voivode and oberknez who fought in the last half of the decade of Karađorđe's Serbia.[1][2]

Biography

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Stevan Katić, born in Rogača in the Kosmaj region[3], was the youngest of the three Katić brothers (Janko[4] and Marko) who became voivode[5] in 1810 and held the rank until the spring of 1813, the time when the First Serbian Uprising failed.

Sick and suffering from many wounds sustained in battles, Stevan went to his village in Rogača to die in 1813. He was buried in the village cemetery [6] where his sister wrote on his tombstone:


1813

Here rests the servant of God, Stevan Katić, voivode, the month of August, 24th day.

Stevan Katić was the last of the Katić male line in Rogača since none of the brothers had an opportunity to lead a normal life, that is marrying and have offsprings. They were born at a time of turmoil when Serbs were fighting to emancipate themselves from the long-tormenting Turkish yoke and European oppression under the reign of Napoleon and the Habsburgs.

After his death the Katić estate was inherited by the sister of the Katić brothers who in turn, relinquished all the rights to her son Nikola Katić, who made a name for himself in the Second Serbian Uprising under Miloš Obrenović.

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