Serb revolutionary organizations explained

This list includes revolutionary organizations aimed at liberating and unifying Serb-inhabited territories into the historical national state of Serbia—it only includes organizations established after the Principality of Serbia (1815) and before the establishment of Second Yugoslavia (1945).

OrganizationEstablishmentNotesImage
Serbian Revolutionary organization1803–04
Niš Secret Organization1820,
in Niš
Serb National Board
May 1–3, 1848,
in Sremski Karlovci
Proclaimed a Serbian autonomous region within the Austrian Empire, Serbian Vojvodina, during the Revolutions of 1848 when Serbs fought the Hungarians.
Secret organization in eastern Bosnia1849Organized by Ilija Garašanin's circle.
Association for Serb Liberation and UnificationSeptember 1871,
in Cetinje
Founded by the United Serbian Youth. It had boards in Cetinje (est. September 1871), Novi Sad (1871) and Belgrade (1871).
Main Board for Serb LiberationLate 1871,
in Kragujevac
Niš CommitteeSeptember 24, 1874,
in Niš
Founded and organized by Kole Rašić, Todor Milovanović, Dimitrije Đorđević, Milan Novičić, Tasko Tasa Uzunović, Đorđe Pop-Manić, Mihajlo Božidarac, and Todor Stanković.
Central Board of the Bosnian Uprising for Liberation
1875Its most influential members were Vaso Vidović and Jovan Bilbija. Golub Babić was the leader of the South Bosnia sector.
Committee for the Liberation of Old Serbia and Macedonia1877
Central Board of the Kumanovo UprisingJanuary 20, 1878,
in Kumanovo
Its supreme leaders were Orthodox priest Dimitrije Paunović and Veljan Cvetković.
Central Board of the Brsjak Revolt1880Its leaders included Ilija Delija, Rista Kostadinović, Micko Krstić and Anđelko Tanasović, among others.
Association of Serbo-MacedoniansAugust 1886,
in Istanbul
Central Board for Chetniks in Macedonia
or
Central Board for Serb Organisation
in 1902,
in Belgrade
Serb Committee
September 1903,
in Belgrade
Founded by Belgrade, Vranje, Skopje and Bitola Revolutionary Boards
Young Bosniaca. 1904
Narodna OdbranaOctober 8, 1908
Black Hand, officially Unification or DeathMay 9, 1911Established by militarist high-ranked members of the Royal Serbian Army led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević Apis, that took a part as junior conspirators that assassinated King Alexander and Queen Draga Obrenović in a May Coup 1903.
White Hand1912Established by high-ranked members of the Royal Serbian Army led by Colonel Petar Živković, as an opposition to the militarist Black Hand. The White Hand supported the Royal House of Karađorđević and the democratic institutions of the country.
Association against Bulgarian Bandits1923,
in Štip

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