Radonja Petrović
Радоња Петровић
Born1670 (1670)
Kosor, Kuči, Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro
Died1737 (aged 66–67)
Stari Vlah, Raška, Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro

Radonja Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Радоња Петровић; b. 1670, Kosor, Kuči – d. 1737 Stari Vlah),[1] known as Vojvoda Radonja (војвода Радоња) was the vojvoda of the Kuči tribe and a commander of the Drekalovići during the Austro–Russian–Turkish War. Vasilije Petrović wrote in History of Montenegro that Petrović was among the Montenegrin commanders who rose to arms under the influence of Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje in 1711.[2]

Lineage

Petrović was the great-great-grandson of Drekale, the eponymous founder of Drekalovići. Petrović's father Petar was the middle child of Vojvoda Iliko Lalev and held the title of vojvoda until his death, when it was passed to his brother Mirčeta.

Military career

Petrović succeeded his uncle as vojvoda and became the leader of the Drekalovići in Brda, called "the Hills," in modern-day Montenegro. Along with Habsburg Serbian troops, the Drekalovići fought against the Ottomans. Venetians granted him the title of Guvernadur of all the Hills for acting as middleman between them and the Ottomans.

In the talks with Austrian representatives in the village of Tešići near Niš on 24 July 1737, Petrović and Patriarch Šakabenta promised Field Marshal Seckendorff that they would mobilise the Kuči and other Highland tribes.[3] Five hundred Kuči men, 200 Vasojevići, and Piperi, among others, were prepared.[4] Šakabenta and Petrović called on Sava Petrović to join the war against the Ottomans, but he was under the influence of the Republic of Venice and remained inactive during the war.[5] Petrović asked Field Marshal Seckendorff that, in the event that the rebels won, he would oversee the troops in his stead. An uprising broke out in Montenegro while talks were still underway.[6]

Petrović's rebels, Serbian troops, and an auxiliary force of Mlatišuma attacked local Muslims.[7] According to Serbia's plan, they were to take over Novi Pazar, Rožaje, Bijelo Polje, and Peć.[7] A Serbian detachment attacked Bihor and pushed through to Godijevo, where they set up headquarters in the house of Mustafa Sijarić.[7] Petrović learned that the Ottomans planned to first attack Župljani, which was already allied with the Venetians.[8] He informed Jerolim Buća, an intendent in Cattaro, that Derviš-paša Čengić had been ordered to divert his army from the Sanjak of Herzegovina towards Knin, and that Vizier Mustafa-paša had been ordered to move towards Zadar with the armies of other sanjaks and 4,000 Tatars. This information was likely exaggerated.[8]

Death and legacy

Petrović died on the Jelica mountain in 1737 and was buried there. In 1766, his son Grigorije, who became the archimandrite of Niš, exhumed his remains and reburied them in the village of Bošnjace near Leskovac. In 2014, 277 years after his death, his remains were moved again, this time to his birth village of Kosor.[9] His uncle Mirčeta's grandson Martin Popović became vojvoda. Though Petrović's siblings and their descendants continued to use the surname Petrović, his offspring adopted the surname Radonjić.

Epic poems have been written about his life, including Ustanak sedmoro Brda i Arbanasa (The Uprising of the Seven Hills and the Albanians).[3][10]

References

  1. ↑ Čađenović, Ivan (2014-10-20). "Komentari: Položeni posmrtni ostaci kučkog vojvode i guvernadura svih brda" [The remains of the vojvoda of Kuči and the Guvernadur of All the Hills were laid to rest] (in Bosnian). Vijesti Online. Archived from the original on 2017-10-08. Retrieved 2017-09-26.
  2. ↑ Petrović, Mitropolit Vasilije. "Mitropolit Vasilije Petrovic - Istorija o Crnoj Gori" [Vladika Vasilije Petrović - History of Montenegro] (in Serbian). Translated by Marojević, Radmilo. Serb Land of Montenegro. Retrieved 2017-09-26.
  3. 1 2 Cerovic, Emilija. "Nepoznata narodna pesma o ustanku Sedmoro brda i Arbanasa 1737. godine" [An unknown folk song about the uprising of the Seven Hills and Arbanas in 1737] (in Croatian). Projekat Rastko. Retrieved 2017-09-26.
  4. ↑ Историски часопис: орган Историског института САН [Historical Journal: Part of the Historical Institute SAN] (in Serbian). Vol. 2. Serbian Academy of Sciences. 1949. p. 155. ... преговора обвезали се, између осталог: да ће у борбу против Турака уз аустриску војску: војвода Радоња Петровић од Куча дати 500 људи, војвода Вуксан Војводић од Васојевића 200 људи, војвода Тошко од Пипера 200 људи, ...
  5. ↑ Ćorović, Vladimir (1997). Istorija srpskog naroda [History of the Serbian People] (in Bosnian). Glas srpski. p. 562. GGKEY:XPENWQLDTZF. Vladika Sava, pod uticajem Mlečana, ostao je u tom ratu neaktivan i pored svih poziva koje su mu upućivali patriarh i kučki vojvoda Radonja Petrović. Arnautske i turske čete napadale su, posle austriskog povlačenja, sva pobunjena plemena, ...
  6. ↑ Cecić, Ivo; Gostl, Igor, eds. (1955). Enciklopedija Jugoslavije [Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia] (in Croatian). Vol. 1. Yugoslav Lexicographical Institute. p. 344. ISBN 9788670530133. Crnogorski vojvoda Radonja Petrovic podnio je feldmarsalu zahtjev o zajednickoj akciji protiv Turaka trazeci da u slucaju pobjede ustanici ostanu na sluzbi austrijskog feldmarsala. Dok su vodeni pregovori, buk- nuo je narodni ustanak u ...
  7. 1 2 3 Hajdaparšić, Raif (1996). Kolašinska kapetanija i bošnjački narod [The Kolašin captaincy and the Bosniak people] (in Bosnian). Association of Bosniaks from Sandžak. Na čelu ustanka bio je kučki vojvoda Radonja Petrović. Na bošnjake iz tih krajeva krenula je i srpska vojska iz Kragujevca, pojačana sa jednim odredom policije koju je predvodio .Staniša Marković. Prema planu Srbije, trebalo je da zauzmu sljedeća mjesta: Novi Pazar, Rožaj, Bijelo Polje i Peć. U isto vrijeme napadnut je i Bihor, gdje su srpske jedinice doprle do Godijeva, u kojem je smješten štab srpske vojske u kući Mustafe Sijarića.
  8. 1 2 Pelidija, Enes (1989). Bosanski ejalet od Karlovačkog do Požarevačkog mira, 1699-1718 [The Bosnian Eyalet from Karlovac to the Peace of Požarevac, 1699-1718] (in Bosnian). Veselin Masleša. pp. 163–. ISBN 9788621003051.
  9. ↑ Popović, Milisav (2014-12-02). "Повратак гувернадура брда завичају" (in Serbian). Serbian Newspapers of Montenegro. Archived from the original on 2016-05-14.
  10. ↑ Zuković, Ljubomir (1988). Stazama usmenosti [On the paths of orality] (in Croatian). Univerzitetska riječ. ... i po tome što je, na primjer, pjevač Bego Ivanov Mijović u jednoj te istoj pjesmi od svega 157 stihova prikazao tako širok raspon događaja u kojima ginu i vojvoda Radonja i njegov sin vojvoda Ilija, mada su i jedan i drugi, sudeći prema obilju ...
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