Cabinet of Mladen Milovanović

The cabinet of Mladen Milovanović was formed in April 1807. It held office until 31 December 1810, when it was dismissed and replaced by the cabinet of Jakov Nenadović.

Cabinet of Mladen Milovanović
Cabinet of Revolutionary Serbia
1807–1810
Date formed	April 1807
Date dissolved	31 December 1810
People and organisations
Head of state	Đorđe Petrović
Head of government	Mladen Milovanović
Total no. of members	14
History
Predecessor	M. Nenadović
Successor	J. Nenadović

Timeline

Further information: First Serbian Uprising

The government of Serbia, known then as the Serbian Governing Council (Serbian Cyrillic: Правитељствујушчи совјет сербски, romanized: Praviteljstvujušči sovjet serbski; lit. 'Serbian Soviet'), was formed in 1805.^[1][2][3] Dukes Jakov Nenadović, Matija Nenadović, Milan Obrenović, and Sima Marković, with the assistance of Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, the minister of foreign affairs of the Russian Empire, proposed the creation of a government in order to limit Karađorđe's powers.^[4] Karađorđe accepted the formation of the government on conditions that the government would help him with military and foreign policy.^[5] With the Assembly of Uprising Champions, it represented the authority in Revolutionary Serbia.^[6] The government organized and supervised the administration, economy, judiciary, foreign policy, order, and the supply of arms for Serb forces.^[7]

Matija Nenadović headed his cabinet until April 1807, when the office was taken over by Mladen Milovanović.^[8] The government's headquarters were in Belgrade.^[9]: 52

Composition

The cabinet was composed of 13 representatives from 13 nahiyahs from among whom the president was elected every month.^[10][11] In 1809, Stojan Pavlović, the Rudnik nahiyah representative, was replaced by Milan Obrenović.^[11] The following composition is according to an Austrian report from 1808:

Office	Name
President of the Governing Council	Mladen Milovanović
Kragujevac nahiyah representative	Mladen Milovanović
Požega nahiyah representative	Petar Knežević
Rudnik nahiyah representative	Stojan Pavlović (until 1809)
	Milan Obrenović (after 1809)
Požarevac nahiyah representative	Jovan Protić
Belgrade nahiyah representative	Pavle Popović
Jagodina nahiyah representative	Velisav Stanojlović
Smederevo nahiyah representative	Janko Đurđević
Ćuprija nahiyah representative	Milija Zdravković
Valjevo nahiyah representative	Milisav Ilijić
Užice nahiyah representative	Vasilije Radojičić
Soko nahiyah representative	Milutin Vasić
Zvornik nahiyah representative	Jevta Savić Čotrić
Šabac nahiyah representative	Ilija Marković
Source:[11]

Pavle Popović, Velisav Perić, Vasilije Jović, Janko Đurđević, Dositej Obradović, and Ilija Marković served as representatives in November 1810, with Milovanović as president.^[11] Stevan Filipović and Mihailo Grujović were secretaries.^[11]

Aftermath

On the New Year's Day in 1810, voivode Jakov Nenadović brought in around six hundred armed men into the Assembly of Uprising Champions in order to force Karađorđe to dismiss Milovanović as the president of the Governing Council.^[9]: 70 Nenadović succeeded and became the president of the Governing Council.^[12] This is disputed by historian Radoš Ljušić, who says that Nenadović became president in 1809.^[13]

References

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2. Čubrilović, Vasa (1982). Istorija političke misli u Srbiji XIX veka (in Serbian). Narodna knjiga. p. 65.
3. Bataković, Dušan T. (2014). The foreign policy of Serbia (1844-1867) : Ilija Garašanin's Načertanije = La politique étrangère de la Serbie (1844-1867) : Načertanije d'Ilija Garašanin. Belgrade. p. 53. ISBN 978-86-7179-089-5. OCLC 974706819. In 1805, the Governing Council held its sessions in Smederevo, the 'capital of our despots and emperors'...{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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8. Nenadović, Matija (1969). The Memoirs of Prota Mateja Nenadović. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Clarendon Press. p. xxii. ISBN 9780198214762. Retrieved 30 October 2022. He finally gave up his post as President of the Legislative Council in April 1807, and his place was taken by Mladen Milovanović.
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11. Ljušić, Radoš (2005). Vlade Srbije: 1805-2005 (1 ed.). Belgrade: Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva. p. 65. ISBN 86-17-13111-X. OCLC 67978385.
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13. Ljušić, Radoš (2005). Vlade Srbije: 1805-2005 (1 ed.). Belgrade: Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva. p. 65. ISBN 86-17-13111-X. OCLC 67978385.