United Serb Youth
Formation | 1866 |
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Dissolved | 1872 |
Legal status | Political organization |
Location | |
Official language | Serbian |
Slogan | "Srpstvo sve i svuda" (Serbdom all and everywhere) |
The United Serb Youth (Serbian: Уједињена омладина српска/Ujedinjena omladina srpska), known as Omladina ("the Youth"), was a Serbian political movement active between 1866 and 1872. It was founded in Novi Sad, Habsburg Monarchy, and was pan-Slavist. Its slogan was "Srpstvo sve i svuda" (Serbdom all and everywhere). When the organization was banned in the Principality of Serbia and in Austria-Hungary, the seat of Omladina became Cetinje, in the Principality of Montenegro. Their ideas were propagated in Glas Crnogorca, Cetinjski Vjesnik, and Pančevac. The Association for Serb Liberation and Unification was founded by members of the United Serbian Youth and other people from all over the Serbian lands.[1] United Serbian Youth, modeled after Giuseppe Mazzini's Giovane Italia, with whom they directly collaborated, was one of the first organizations to raise the question of women's emancipation. The first Serbian women's society was established in Novi Sad, then part of Hungarian-controlled Vojvodina in 1864. After that a new, powerful political group also of liberal political orientation was formed by the Serbs of Vojvodina, with its leader Svetozar Miletić, which appeared at assemblies in Sremski Karlovci (1861, 1864). Miletić's supporters collaborated with the liberal Jovan Djordjević's journal Srbski dnevnik ("Serbian Diary"), spreading their ideas, like Miletić's own journal Zastava ("Flag") as well as founding various societies preceding the United Serbian Youth. The most important among these was the first society of pupils and students, Preodnica ("Predecessor"), founded in Pest in 1861 as well as the imitator of the United Serbian Youth, the society Zora ("Dawn"), founded in Vienna in 1862.
Members
In 1866, some 400 representatives of Serb youth from Serbian-populated territories ("Serb lands") met in Novi Sad and founded the United Serb Youth.[2] Among notable members were:
- Laza Kostić
- Jovan Jovanović Zmaj
- Jevrem Grujić
- Svetozar Miletić
- Svetozar Marković
- Nikola Pašić
- Nikola I Petrović of Montenegro
- Marko Miljanov Popović
- Mašo Vrbica
- Lazar Tomanović
- Antonije Hadžić
- Vladimir Jovanović
- Valtazar Bogišić
- Draga Dejanović
- Vaso Pelagić
- Sava Bjelanović
- Alimpije Vasiljević
- Gligorije "Giga" Geršić
- Jovan Turoma
See also
Annotations
- Also United Serbian Youth.
References
- ↑ Cenić, Mita; Perović (1988). Izabrani spisi. p. 340.
- ↑ Victor Roudometof (2001). Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy: The Social Origins of Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 121–. ISBN 978-0-313-31949-5.
Further reading
- Niko S. Martinović. Valtazar Bogišić i Ujedinjena omladina srpska. Zbornik Matice srpske, sveska 9.
- Kujundžić M. (1872). Млада Србадија: лист за поуку, за уметност и јавни друштвени живот. Година III., Број I. Уједињена омладина српска.
- Уједињена омладина српска: зборник радова. Матица српска. 1968.
- В. Н. Кондратјева; Никола Петровић (1977). Уједињена Омладина Српска и њено доба 1860-1875: грађа из совјетских архива. Будућност.
- Vasa Čubrilović (1982). Istorij̀a političke misli u Srbij̀i XIX veka. Narodna knjiga.
- Pregled istorije jugoslovenskih naroda: Od 1849.g. do 1959.g. Zavod za izdavanje Republike Srbije. 1960.