Mileta Radojković

Mileta Radojković, Prince of Jagodina, Grand Count of Rasina[1] (c. 1778 – 26 September 1852) was a participant in the First Serbian Uprising and Second Serbian Uprising, and was the first and most important prince of the Jagodina Nahija[2] and held the title of Serdar Rasinski.

From 1826 to 1830, Mileta Radojković managed the ferryboat line in Obrež, the busiest ferry in the Jagodina district.

[2] In the summer of 1830, Miloš Obrenović persuaded the people of Jagodina to accuse Mileta of numerous injustices that he allegedly did to them.

[4] In January 1831, Prince Miloš informed a great national assembly that he had obtained an imperial edict from the Sultan ending all direct obligations of Serbian peasants to their former Turkish lords, guaranteeing Ottoman recognition of Serbian autonomy in most matters of internal administration, and offering Serbia the prospect of territorial aggrandizement, as well as the express right to institute schools, courts, and a governmental administration of her own.

The Sultan's decrees of 1830 and 1833 expanded the same rights to a larger territory, and made Serbia a sovereign principality,[5] with Miloš Obrenović as the hereditary prince.

The prince was forced to adopt the Sretenje Constitution (La Constitution de la Sainte Rencontre de 1835)[10] in Kragujevac, the then capital of Serbia, which limited the prince's rights and partially transferred them to the State Council.

However, Miloš with the support of foreign powers soon dismissed all the ministers he had appointed by the Constitution of Sretenje, so that Mileta was replaced on 16 March of the same year.

During the First Serbian Uprising, as the Nahija prince Mileta, he renovated the Monastery of Saint Nikola Mirlikijski in Svojnovo.