Orašac Assembly
Even the hatisherif that Porta gave to the Serbs in the Belgrade pashalik after Kočina Frontier Rebellion contained certain characteristics of an autonomous organization.
The immediate reason for its maintenance, as well as for the uprising itself, was the slaughter of princes and national leaders by the Dahijas, and the difficult situation that ruled the country under the system of the Dahiya administration.
Participants who arrived the day before or during the night from various directions in Orašac gathered several Marićević Jaruga, near two large elms, on a plateau surrounded on all sides by a dense meadow.
Karađorđe, who was the main organizer of this insurgent assembly, presented the position of the Belgrade pashalik since it has been under the Dahija administration and stated the goal of this meeting.
When the question of leadership was raised, the same unanimity was shown: although Karađorđe nominated some capable and respectable persons, such as Stanoje Glavaš, Vule Ilić Kolarac, Prince Marko Savić, and Teodosije Maričević, both Glavaš and Kolarac and the other proposed persons all rejected their respective candidacy, so Karađorđe was elected the leader of the uprising, however, the supreme leader, who received the election only after a long resistance and when it was repeated to him several times that the people wanted to be led in the uprising by people of Karađorđe's personal characteristics.
Today, based on historical and memoir literature, only the presence of these people can be determined: Protojerej Atanasije Antonijević, Stanoje Glavaš, Hajduk-Veljko Petrović, Vule Ilić Kolarac, Milisav Lipovac, Djordjic of Visevac, Jovan Krstović of Bukovik, Aleksa Dukić, Arsenije Loma, Tanasko Rajić, Janićije Đurić, Prince of Orašac Marko Savić, merchant Teodosije Maričević, Aleksa Jakovljević, Prince Vićentije Petrović of Koraćica, Prince Matija Jovićić of Topola, Mihailo Badžak of Jagnjilo, Matija Karatošić of Kopljar, Milutin Savić, Marko Petar Dugonjić of Masloševo, Blagoje and Gliša (no surname given) both of Masloševo, Ćira Prokić and Miloje Čekerević (Masloševo), Stevan Rajaković, Mata Milivojević, Mandić and Milovan Đurić (Stragari), Andreja Jokić, Rista Đurđezić, Mihailo Manojlović, Paun Čolkć, Matija Milošević, Lazar Milosavljević, Dimitrije Perić, Dimitrije Manojlović, Gavrilo Đurić, Grigorije Marković (all came from Topola), Đordje Dukić, Tanasije Dukić, Jovan Riznić, Sreten, Teofan and Jakov Tomkovići (Ba) also, Gaja Ostojić of Orašac, Petar Kara (Trešnjevica), Hajduk Mileta (Glibovac), Hajduk Kara Steva of Provo, Hajduk Milovan (Plana), Dimitrije Radović (Vrbica), Milovan Đurković (Jagnjilo), Miloš Arsenijević (Dravlje), Janko Račanin (Rača), Nikodije Dobrić (Ovsište), Marko Milosavljević (Kopljare), Nikola Leka (Lipovac), Milovan Garašanin (Lipovac), Radovan Garašanin (Lipovac), Sima Serdar (Darosava), Toma Starčević (Orašac), Jovan Bulatović (Orašac) and Vasa Saramanda (Bukovik).
