Serb revolutionary organizations
This list includes revolutionary organizations aimed at liberating and unifying Serb-inhabited territories into the historical national state of Serbia—it only includes organizations established after the Principality of Serbia (1815) and before the establishment of Second Yugoslavia (1945).
Organization | Establishment | Notes | Image |
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Serbian Revolutionary organization | 1803–04 | ||
Niš Secret Organization | 1820, in Niš | ||
Serb National Board (Srpski narodni odbor) |
May 1–3, 1848, in Sremski Karlovci |
Proclaimed a Serbian autonomous region within the Austrian Empire, Serbian Vojvodina, during the Revolutions of 1848 when Serbs fought the Hungarians. | |
Secret organization in eastern Bosnia | 1849 | Organized by Ilija Garašanin's circle. | |
Association for Serb Liberation and Unification | September 1871, in Cetinje |
Founded by the United Serbian Youth. It had boards in Cetinje (est. September 1871), Novi Sad (1871) and Belgrade (1871). | |
Main Board for Serb Liberation | Late 1871, in Kragujevac | ||
Niš Committee | September 24, 1874, in Niš |
Founded and organized by Kole Rašić, Todor Milovanović, Dimitrije Đorđević, Milan Novičić, Tasko Tasa Uzunović, Đorđe Pop-Manić, Mihajlo Božidarac, and Todor Stanković. | |
Central Board of the Bosnian Uprising for Liberation (Главни одбор Босанског устанка за ослобођење) |
1875 | Its most influential members were Vaso Vidović and Jovan Bilbija. Golub Babić was the leader of the South Bosnia sector. | |
Committee for the Liberation of Old Serbia and Macedonia | 1877 | ||
Central Board of the Kumanovo Uprising | January 20, 1878, in Kumanovo |
Its supreme leaders were Orthodox priest Dimitrije Paunović and Veljan Cvetković. | |
Central Board of the Brsjak Revolt | 1880 | Its leaders included Ilija Delija, Rista Kostadinović, Micko Krstić and Anđelko Tanasović, among others. | |
Association of Serbo-Macedonians | August 1886, in Istanbul | ||
Central Board for Chetniks in Macedonia or Central Board for Serb Organisation (Централни Одбор Српске Организације) |
in 1902, in Belgrade | ||
Serb Committee (Српски комитет) |
September 1903, in Belgrade |
Founded by Belgrade, Vranje, Skopje and Bitola Revolutionary Boards | |
Young Bosnia | ca. 1904 | ||
Narodna Odbrana | October 8, 1908 | ||
Black Hand, officially Unification or Death | May 9, 1911 | Established by militarist high-ranked members of the Royal Serbian Army led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević Apis, that took a part as junior conspirators that assassinated King Alexander and Queen Draga Obrenović in a May Coup 1903. | |
White Hand | 1912 | Established by high-ranked members of the Royal Serbian Army led by Colonel Petar Živković, as an opposition to the militarist Black Hand. The White Hand supported the Royal House of Karađorđević and the democratic institutions of the country. | |
Association against Bulgarian Bandits | 1923, in Štip |
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