Sava Temišvarac
| Sava Temišvarac | |
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| Birth name | Sava |
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| Born | Temeşvar, Temeşvar Eyalet, Ottoman Empire (now Romania) |
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| Years of service | 1594–1612 |
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| Military history | Long Turkish War |
| Awards | knighthood |
Sava Temišvarac (Serbian Cyrillic: Сава Темишварац, "Sava of Timișoara"; fl. 1594–1612) was a Serb military commander (vojvoda) in the service of the Transylvania and then the Holy Roman Empire, active during the Long Turkish War, having led the Uprising in Banat (1594) and then joined the Transylvanian Army with other notable Serb leaders..
Bishop Teodor of Vršac and Sava Temišvarac led the Uprising in Banat (1594). The rebels had, in the character of a holy war, carried war flags with the icon of Saint Sava. After initial success, the rebels had by March 1594 expelled the Ottomans from almost the entire territory of Banat and Körös. On 27 April, in an act of retaliation, Grand Vizier Koca Sinan Pasha had the relics of Saint Sava incinerated at Vračar; made to discourage the Serbs, it instead intensified the rebellion.
Đorđe Palotić, the Ban of Lugos, stole armament which he sent to the rebels, and encouraged them to continue to fight; he subsequently promised that the Transylvanian Duke, Sigismund Báthory, would soon appear to them. Known as ban Sava at the time, he, Teodor and Velja Mironić signed and sent a letter in the name of "all spahee and knezes, all of Serbdom and Christianity", to the Transylvanian nobleman Mózes Székely, who was already at the frontier, asking for aid in the uprising, to send troops as soon as possible. They mentioned in the letter that 1,000 armed men were gathered in Vršac. The letter was sent from Vršac on 13 June, two days after the decision at the Assembly at Gyulafehérvár. However, Székely was unwilling to cross the Transylvanian border, so the Serbs were left on their own.
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