Golub Babic

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Golub Babic

Golub Babić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Голуб Бабић ; born September 7, 1824 in Trubar near Drvar ; † December 19, 1910 in Sarajevo ) was a Bosnian-Serb voivode and rebel commander of the Herzegovina uprising (1875–1877) in the Ottoman Vilayet Bosnia .

Life

origin

Babić was born in 1824 as the son of Ilija and Vasilija Babić in the village of Trubar near the town of Drvar , which was then part of the Ottoman Empire in Eyâlet Bosnia . As a teenager, he joined the Heiducken in southwestern Bosnia.

Revolution of 1848

In 1848 the Hungarians demanded independence from the Habsburg Monarchy , which led to the revolutions of 1848/1849 . Hungary did not recognize the rights of other nationalities living in the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary at the time, so the Serbs of Syrmia , the Batschka , the Banat and Baranya demanded national rights and the creation of a Serbian Vojvodina that separated their communities from Hungary. From June 12, 1848 to November 1849, the Serbs therefore waged a war against Hungary. Babić joined a voluntary division under the direct command of Stevan Knićanin . After the failure of the Hungarian uprising, the Austrian emperor decided to give the Serbs an autonomous province of the Voivodeship of Serbia and the Temesian Banat (1849-60). Babić returned to Bosnia.

Doljani revolt

In mid-1858 an uprising broke out in northwestern Bosnia as a result of Ottoman pressure against the local Serbian population. Golub Babić and his older brother Božo joined the uprising led by Pecija (1826–1875). Božo died during the battle and the uprising was crushed in December 1858.

Retreat to Slovenia

Babić and most of his extended family moved to Pakrac in Austrian Slavonia , where many of the families involved in the uprising had withdrawn. In the winter of 1863, at the invitation of the Catholic Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer , he and his family moved to Đakovo , where they lived for a few months under the protection of the bishop. Babić soon decided to travel to the Principality of Serbia for fear of extradition by the Austrian authorities to the Ottoman Empire and also because of pressure from the bishop to convert to Catholicism.

Move to Serbia

Babić and his family settled in Stubline, a village near Obrenovac , in 1864 . After entering Serbia via Loznica , he made friends with the Orthodox priest Ignatije Vasić from Loznica, who helped them start over.

Uprising in Bosnia

Babić in his garden (1898)

In August 1875 he left his family in Serbia and returned to Bosnia with his three brothers Milandža, Pavle and Petar. He planned an uprising in Crni Potoci between Drvar and Bosansko Grahovo , where he was elected leader of the rebels in southwestern Bosnia. The uprising was supported by the Serbian government. By September 15, 1875, he had gathered a group of 25 men, which by the end of the month had grown to a unit of 150 men. Babić was a strong advocate and supporter of guerrilla tactics.

The rebel army was getting stronger every day and prepared on: The ethnic Serbs merchant and politician Ilija Guteša sent from Vienna 315 breech-loading rifles and 6 cents gunpowder. Babić organized his troops strictly militarily and formed a general staff. He quickly won the rebels' trust, authority, and prestige, and achieved significant military success. The area from Lika to Bjelaja (including Drvar) and from Dinara to Livno and Glamoč was liberated from the rebels. On July 2, 1876, he and his 71 commanders signed the "Proclamation of the unification of Bosnia with Serbia".

The Serbian Colonel Despotović took over the command in August and formed eight battalions from the guerrilla gangs. Despotović had written to the Serbian government that Babić was incapable and could neither read nor write and was therefore not suitable for leading the rebels. He had claimed that he had taken Glamoč , Ključ and other Ottoman strongholds, even though they were already owned by the rebels. Several rebel groups then left Despotović's brigade.

On August 4, 1877, the rebels suffered a military defeat near Sedlo and the uprising was put down. Babic was able to escape with his troops and hid in the mountains of Lika . On September 29, 1877, the revival of the rebel movement in southwestern Bosnia began with the formation of a provisional people's government, which was elected by 200 participants in a meeting. Alexander Semionowitsch Jonin was elected president, Golub Babic as voivode member of the government. The same day the government issued a proclamation to the Bosnian people.

Austro-Hungarian Bosnia and Herzegovina

Babić crossed the Lika River, from where he organized minor guerrilla attacks on the Ottoman army in Bosnia and the border triangle until March 1878. In the same year he was elected delegate for the Berlin Congress at the rebel assembly in Tiškovac together with Vaso Vidović , but was never sent to Berlin because the Serbian government did not want to provoke Austria-Hungary. In the subsequent Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina he surrendered peacefully to the troops in Srb . For a while he was in the service of the new government in Bihać and accepted this as a temporary and better solution than the Ottoman government. Most of the insurgents followed suit and returned to their hometowns by the end of 1878.

death

Babić died in Sarajevo on December 19, 1910 at the age of 86.

His prestigious clothes, which he wore during the uprising, were presented to him for his military achievements. It was previously worn by the voivod and Serdar Milovan Pavasović during the uprising of 1715 and later handed over to the Chetnik commander Branko Bogunović (1911–1945) by the Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Peter in Tiškovac . Several World War II partisan groups were named after him.

The Military Museum in Belgrade keeps a knife by Babić.

Web links

Commons : Golub Babić  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Bratislav Teinović: Srpski ustanak u Bosni 1875-1878 . Museum of the Republic of Serbia, Banjaluka 2006, p. 21f.
  2. ↑ Barbara Jelavich: History of the Balkans . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1983, ISBN 978-0-521-27458-6 , pp. 316ff.
  3. ↑ Mikić (1995), pp. 148-151
  4. ↑ Bratislav Teinović (2006), p. 37
  5. ↑ Bratislav Teinović (2006), p. 38
  6. ^ G. Muir Mackenzie, Adelina P. Irby: Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-In-Europe . Cosimo, 2010, ISBN 978-1-61640-405-5 , p. 42ff.
  7. ↑ a b c Arthur John Evans : Illyrian Letters: A Revised Selection of Correspondence from the Illyrian Provinces of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Dalmatia, Croatia and Slavonia, Addressed to the Manchester Guardian During 1877 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013, ISBN 978-1-108-06096-7 , pp. 19ff.
  8. ↑ Bratislav Teinović (2006), p. 32
  9. ↑ Bratislav Teinović (2006), p. 32
  10. ↑ Bratislav Teinović (2006), p. 33
  11. ↑ Bratislav Teinović (2006), p. 33
  12. ↑ Bratislav Teinović (2006), p. 36
  13. ↑ Bratislav Teinović (2006), p. 33
  14. ↑ Mahmud Konjhodžić: Na 1000 [ie tisuća] frontova . Naprijed, 1959, p. 177
  15. ↑ Bratislav Teinović (2006), p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Babic, Golub
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian-Serb rebel commander and voivode
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Trubar at Drvar
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1910
Place of death Sarajevo