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    The Slaughter of the Knezes (Serbian: Сеча кнезова, romanized: Seča knezova) was the organized assassinations and assaults of noble Serbs in the Sanjak...
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    Piotrowski (Polish pronunciation: [pjɔˈtrɔvski]; feminine: Piotrowska, plural: Piotrowscy) is a Polish surname derived from the masculine given name Piotr...
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    important element of the self-government of Transylvania. The Orthodox Romanian knezes ("chiefs") were excluded from the Union. The Kingdom of Hungary collapsed...
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    nobles throughout Central Serbia, a move known as the Slaughter of the Knezes. According to historical sources of the city of Valjevo, the heads of the...
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    He created a militia of Serb notables and realized the Slaughter of the Knezes, because the Janissaries, expelled from Belgrade, found refuge with Osman...
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    Valjevo during the Slaughter of the Knezes. Ilija Birčanin (1804) – executed in Valjevo during the Slaughter of the Knezes. Karađorđe (1817) – Assassinated...
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    Hungary by Romanian knezes. These knezes were entrusted with the duty to populate private and royal estates. The Romanian knezes in return for their settlement...
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    Požarevac and besieged the Belgrade fortress. At the end of November 1797 obor-knezes Aleksa Nenadović, Ilija Birčanin and Nikola Grbović from Valjevo brought...
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    priest gave land to the church, and the given land extended to the land of Kneže, where Vlachs lived. In a battle, Vlachs fought alongside Mladen Šubić near...
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    кнѧжа. но азъ есмь. роду кнѧжа. i peče ôlegǔ askoldu insiroci. vy něsta knęzę. ni roda knęža. no azǔ esmǐ. rodu knęža. and Oleg said to Askold and Dir...
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    Požarevac and besieged the Belgrade fortress. At the end of November 1797 obor-knezes Aleksa Nenadović, Ilija Birčanin and Nikola Grbović from Valjevo brought...
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  • duties of a voivode and of a knez sometimes overlapped, or, more often, knezes provided council to the voievode in his duties, in general the voivode retained...
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  • Rastislalić family. Ottoman period 1804 72 notable Serbs Dahije Slaughter of the Knezes 1815 Kara-Marko Vasić, revolutionary Ordered by Miloš Obrenović. 1816 Melentije...
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    nobles throughout Central Serbia, a move known as the Slaughter of the Knezes. The heads of the murdered Serbian nobles were put on public display in...
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    fabrication, to the effect that Bylazora was located at the village of Kneze near Sveti Nikole stems from professor Ivan Mikulcic, who in 1976 set foot...
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    northwards to Máramaros. The knezes were entrusted with the duty to populate private and royal estates. The Romanian knezes in return for their settlement...
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    150 knezes (village leaders), livestock merchants and Orthodox priests were executed by the Dahije in an event known as the Slaughter of the Knezes. According...
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    moving to her house. Not long after the wedding, the Slaughter of the Knezes took place (January 1804), in which prominent Serb leaders were executed...
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    converted and rebaptised. He also decreed that only Roman Catholic noblemen and knezes were allowed to hold landed property in the district of Sebes in Temes County...
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  • the kneze of Nucșoara who, from 1394, was due an ox to the voivode of Transylvania. During the reign of Louis I of Hungary the noble status of knezes had...
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    been the voivode of the Voivodeship of Maramureș. At that time, the Vlach knezes, or chiefs, of Maramureș elected their voivodes from among their number...
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    king left to the Vlachs “as they had held it”. The diploma also refers to knezes Farcaș and John, and also a voivode called Seneslau. It seems that Litovoi...
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    obligation, but everybody else (even the ecclesiastic nobles, Romanian knezes, and other "conditional nobles") owed services to their lords in exchange...
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    the two-month massacre, which came to be known as the Slaughter of the Knezes (Serbian: Seča knezova). Upon killing the chieftains, the Dahis impaled...
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  • lovče 'hunter'. Likewise, a final -z becomes -ž in only two cases: knez : kneže 'prince' and vitez : viteže 'knight'. The loss of the unsteady a can trigger...
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  • Ottoman and Serbian rule: 1804—1878 1804: Following the Slaughter of the Knezes, the Serbs organize themselves against the terror of the Dahije regime,...
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    start of the First Serbian Uprising, in vengeance for the "Slaughter of the Knezes". Having apprehended and, while running away, Milenko executed the Turkish...
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    leaders was based on two reasons. First, they feared a general massacre of knezes. Second, they learned that Karađorđe was planning to return from exile in...
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    priest on the island of Krk granted land to the church ("to the lands of Kneže, which are called Vlach"), while in 1322 Vlachs were allied with Mladen...
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    not migrate from Wallachia, but was born in a family of Romanian noble knezes from the region of Hátszeg, or Hunyad. They say that Voyk's grandfather...
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