Remove ads
Statehood Day (Serbian: Дан државности, romanized: Dan državnosti), also known as the Sretenje (Serbian: Сретење), is a holiday celebrated every 15 February in Serbia to commemorate the outbreak of the First Serbian Uprising in 1804, which evolved into the Serbian Revolution against Ottoman rule. On the same day in 1835, the first modern Serbian constitution, known as the "Sretenje Constitution" or "Candlemas Constitution".
 | You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Serbian. (February 2018) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
| Statehood Day | |
|---|---|
 Flag of the First Serbian Uprising | |
| Official name | Statehood Day |
| Also called | Sretenje |
| Observed by | Serbia |
| Date | 15 February |
| Next time | 15 February 2025 |
| Frequency | annual |
Statehood Day is a public national holiday, and official celebrations last for two days, every 15 February.
Remove ads
Google Doodles commemorated Serbian Statehood Day in 2012,[1] 2013,[2] 2014,[3] 2015,[4] 2016,[5] 2017,[6] 2018,[7] 2019,[8] 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 as well as Facebook in 2016.[5]
- Public holidays in Serbia
- Statehood Day in other countries
- List of national independence days
- Sretenje
Remove ads
Wikiwand in your browser!
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
Remove ads