Jančić's Revolt

Jančić's rebellion

Date	September 23 — mid–October 1809
Location	Gradiška, Bosnia Eyalet (modern Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Result	Ottoman victory

Belligerents

Local Serb peasants

Ottoman Empire

Commanders and leaders

Jovan Jančić–Sarajlija †

Casualties and losses

Rebel leaders executed

Jančić's rebellion (Serbian: Јанчићева буна/Jančićeva buna), also known as the First Mašići rebellion (Прва Машићка буна/Prva Mašićka buna), was a rebellion led by ethnic Serbs in the Gradiška region against the Ottoman government in the Bosnia Eyalet. It broke out in September 1809 following a string of econominal, national and religious deprivations of the rights of Serbs.

With the First Serbian Uprising that broke out in the Sanjak of Smederevo in 1804, hajduk actions also began to the west of the Drina, especially after the decisive Serbian victory at the Battle of Mišar (1806). Hajduks also arrived from Serbia, and they were especially active on the Kozara. The work of priest Jovo from Svinjar, priest Nikodim from Mačkovac, and the brotherhood of the Moštanica Monastery also led to the uprising. Jovan Jančić, a gunsmith from Sarajevo, smuggled arms for three years from the Military Frontier seeking to arm the Serb-inhabited districts between Una and Bosna rivers.

The revolt broke out in the Bosnian Frontier and Bosnian Posavina. Jovan Jančić–Sarajlija was the organizer of the uprising with help from the bishop Benedikt Kraljević. Jančić negotiated with Serbia, Russia and France regarding the revolt. The Ottomans sensed that something was in planning, so they increased the terror against the population, and Kraljević fled to Austria. While planning the operation, Jančić turned to Austria and France for help, but without any success. In the dilemma of whether to start an uprising without proper planning, he was forestalled by a progress of events.

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