Svetozar Miletić
| Svetozar Miletić Светозар Милетић |
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| 27th Mayor of Novi Sad | |
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In office 1861–1862 |
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| Preceded by | Gavrilo Polzović |
| Succeeded by | Pavle Mačvanski |
| 30th Mayor of Novi Sad | |
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In office 1867–1868 |
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| Preceded by | Pavle Stojanović |
| Succeeded by | Pavle Stojanović |
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22 February 1826 Mošorin, Austrian Empire |
| Died | 4 February 1901 (aged 74) Vršac, Austria-Hungary |
| Religion | Serbian Orthodox |
Svetozar Miletić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Милетић; 22 February 1826 – 4 February 1901) was an advocate, journalist, author, politician, mayor of Novi Sad, and the political leader of Serbs in Vojvodina.
Miletić's ancestor was Mileta Zavišić who came to Bačka from Kostajnica near the border of Bosnia where he led a company of three hundred men and fought against Ottomans for thirty two years. Since Ottomans wanted to punish him after they signed a peace treaty with Austrians, Mileta moved to Bačka and changed his last name to Miletić. Mileta's son Sima, who was educated as merchant in Novi Sad, had fifteen sons and three daughters. Avram Miletić, the oldest Sima's son and grandfather of Svetozar Miletić, was merchant and songwriter who is best known for writing the earliest collection of urban lyric poetry on Serbian language. The second son of Avram Miletić, also Sima like his grandfather, was a boot-maker and a father of Svetozar Miletić. Svetozar Miletić was the oldest of seven children born to Sima and Teodosija (née Rajić) Miletić in the village of Mošorin in Šajkaška, the Serbian Military Frontier, on 22 February 1826. His son-in-law Jaša Tomić, who was a publicist and leader of the Serbian radicals in Vojvodina, took up Miletić's mantle at the turn of the century.
Miletić attended Gymnasia in Novi Sad, Modra, and Požun (Bratislava), and defended a juristical doctorate in Vienna in 1854, but found his real vocation in politics, and at once constituted himself champion of the most advanced opinions. He wrote a song Već se srbska zastava vije svuda javno (Already the Serb flag is unfurled everywhere), which was sung as the anthem of Vojvodina.
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