ПЕРИОДИЗАЦИЈА НОВОВЕКОВНЕ ПРОШЛОСТИ СТАНОВНИШТВА БЕОГРАДСКОГ ПАШАЛУКА И КНЕЖЕВИНЕ СРБИЈЕ 1815–1839.
PERIODIZATION OF EARLY MODERN HISTORY OF THE POPULATION OF THE BELGRADE PASHALIK AND THE PRINCIPALITY OF SERBIA 1815–1839

Summary/Abstract: This study analyzes the naming of historical events and periodization of the past as mentioned in petitions and complaints submitted by inhabitants of Serbia or representatives of Serbian authorities and institutions from 1815 to 1839. The Ottoman- Habsburg conflicts of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, as well as the two Serbian uprisings, were referred to by the Serbian population as wars, frontiers (krajina), or times (epochs) of the most prominent military commanders in these conflicts – Eugen of Savoy, Maximilian von Petrasch, Koča Andjelković, and Karađorđe. Peaceful periods were named after Ottoman viziers or imperial rebels and were divided according to the years of their administration of the Belgrade Pashalik and the Vidin Sanjak. Although the early modern popular periodization of the past began with the era of Eugene of Savoy, which extended to the period of Ottoman-Habsburg conflicts from 1684–1739, the Habsburg-Ottoman War of 1788–1791 was viewed as the beginning of a new epoch, while the time before it was considered remote antiquity. The First Serbian Uprising, which contemporaries and participants did not call an uprising, was referred to as Karađorđe’s War, Karađorđe’s Frontier, Karađorđe’s or Serbian Time, or the Time of Karađorđe’s State. The destruction of the state of the first uprising was called by contemporaries the Serbian, our, or Karađorđe’s downfall, as they experienced the fate of the ruler and state as a personal tragedy as well.

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