Nikola Grbović

Nikola Grbović (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Грбовић; fl. 1793–1806) was a Serbian obor-knez of the Kolubara knežina of the Valjevo nahija in the Sanjak of Smederevo, who later became a Serbian Revolutionary.^[1] He was born in Mratišić.^[1] He was active in the formation of the district and the Ottoman Serb civil army from 1793–94 to 1796, and took part in the operations against Janissary leader Osman Pazvantoğlu.^[1] At the end of November 1797 obor-knezes Aleksa Nenadović, Ilija Birčanin and Nikola Grbović from Valjevo brought their forces to Belgrade and forced the besieging janissary forces to retreat to Smederevo.^[2][3] He participated since the outbreak of the First Serbian Uprising, organizing a detachment of his knežina together with his son Milovan.^[1] He was a rebel delegate in the talks with Bekir Pasha in 1804.^[1] He participated in the liberation of Valjevo and in the first fights around Belgrade.^[1]

Nikola Grbović's sons Stevan, Milovan, Radovan and grandson Luka (Radovan's son) participated in the First and the Second Serbian Uprising.^[4]

Sources

• Morison, W. A. (2012) [1942]. The Revolt of the Serbs Against the Turks: (1804-1813). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-67606-0.
• Petrovich, Michael Boro (1976). A history of modern Serbia, 1804-1918. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 978-0-15-140950-1.
• Ranke, Leopold von (1847). History of Servia, and the Servian Revolution: From Original Mss. and Documents. J. Murray.

See also

• List of Serbian Revolutionaries