Mi smo s tobom Karađorđe Petroviću | Serbian Patriotic Song | Lyrics

Lyrics by: Unknown Music by: Unknown Đorđe Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђорђе Петровић), better known by the sobriquet Karađorđe (Serbian Cyrillic: Карађорђе, lit. ’Black George’), was a Serbian revolutionary who led the struggle for his country’s independence from the Ottoman Empire during the First Serbian Uprising of 1804–1813. In early 1804, following a massacre of Serb chieftains by renegade Ottoman janissaries known as Dahis, the Serbs of the Pashalik rebelled. Karađorđe was unanimously elected to lead the uprising against the Dahis at an assembly of surviving chiefs in February 1804. Within six months, most of the Dahi leaders had been captured and executed by Karađorđe’s forces, and by 1805, the final remnants of Dahi resistance had been crushed. Karađorđe and his followers demanded far-reaching autonomy, which Sultan Selim interpreted as the first step towards complete independence. Selim promptly declared ji