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Sekula Vitković (Serbian Cyrillic: Секула Витковић; Mostaći, near Trebinje, Republika Srpska, then part of the Ottoman Empire, 1687 - Batajnica, near Belgrade, Serbia, then part of the Austrian Empire, 31 March 1754)[1] belonged to the Serbian elite in the Habsburg Empire. Vitković was the commander of Bačka Palanka from 1731 until 1734 at a time when Austria was fighting the Turks.
Early life
[edit]According to Serbian history, Sekula Vitković came from a respectable family from the village of Mostaći, near Trebinje in Herzegovina, then part of the Ottoman Empire.[2] With the failure of the Austro-Serbian campaign during the Great Turkish War (1683–1699), a Great Migrations of the Serbs ensued into Habsburg territories in 1690.[3]
During his time Bačka Palanka was part of the Slavonian Military Frontier and Palanka had the status of an army town from 1702 until 1744 when it became part of Bacs-Bodrog County. Vitković eventually became regional commander of the Danube Serbian Militia in the war with the Turks.
Vitković joined the Austrian military service in which, thanks to his abilities, he advanced to the rank of colonel. In 1735 he was appointed regional commander-in-chief of the Danube Serbian Militia. Also, he is remembered as the great benefactor of Šišatovac Monastery in Fruška Gora.[4][5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Vitkovics, Mihály (1978). Vitkovics Mihály magyar és szerb írásai (in Hungarian). Európa. ISBN 978-963-07-1437-2.
- ^ Fotić, Aleksandar; Kusovac, Nikola; Vesović, Velimir; Milošević, Desanka (1994). Illustrated history of the Serbs. Litera. ISBN 978-86-7467-019-4.
- ^ "Слободна Херцеговина » ГАЛЕРИЈА ЗНАМЕНИТИХ ХЕРЦЕГОВАЦА: Секула Витковић – ктитор манастира Шишатовац".
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- ^ Cite book|last=siècle|first=Université libre de Bruxelles Groupe d'étude du XVIIIe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vVQaAAAAIAAJ&q=Sekula+Vitkovi%C4%87&dq=Sekula+Vitkovi%C4%87%7Ctitle=Etudes sur le XVIIIe siècle|date=1974|publisher=Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles|isbn=978-2-8004-0956-6|language=fr