Mileta Radojković

Mileta Radojković, Prince of Jagodina, Grand Count of Rasina (c. 1778 – 26 September 1852) was a participant in the First Serbian Uprising and Second Serbian Uprising, and was the first and most important prince of the Jagodina Nahija and held the title of Serdar Rasinski. He was also an honorary member of the Society of Serbian Letters.

Biography Radojković's father brought him to Donji Katun as a child where he would grow up. Radojković's ancestors immigrated to Đunis from Kosovo. He was appointed prince of the Jagodina nahija at an assembly held on 19 December 1815, and he remained in this position until 1830.

In 1826, Prince Miloš Obrenović leased all the ferryboats in Serbia from the Turks, kept the larger one for himself, and leased the others. From 1826 to 1830, Mileta Radojković managed the ferryboat line in Obrež, the busiest ferry in the Jagodina district. with Miloš Obrenović as the hereditary prince. A Metropolitanate of Belgrade was established as an autonomous unit of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Russia's status as the guarantor of Serbia's autonomy was also recognized.

When the Principality of Serbia was divided into Serdars in 1834, Mileta was appointed Grand Duke of the Rasina serdar, one of the five serdars into which the then Serbia was divided.

In 1835, Mileta Radojković led the biggest revolt against Prince Miloš Obrenović, which became popularly known as Mileta's revolt. The rebels rose up with the intention of limiting the prince's power by imposing a new constitution. The prince was forced to adopt the Sretenje Constitution (La Constitution de la Sainte Rencontre de 1835) in Kragujevac, the then capital of Serbia, which limited the prince's rights and partially transferred them to the State Council. By the Constitution of Sretenje, Mileta was appointed one of the five ministers in Serbia - the Minister of War ("Guardian of Military Affairs") and thus became a member of the State Council, which played the role of the government of the Principality of Serbia. However, Miloš with the support of foreign powers soon dismissed all the ministers he had appointed by the Constitution of Sretenje, so that Mileta was replaced on 16 March of the same year. The move was opposed by neighbouring Austria, the ruling Ottoman Empire and Imperial Russia. It is believed that the three great empires saw the Sretenje Constitution as a danger to their own autocratic systems of government. and it was replaced by the "Turkish" Constitution of 1838.

When the older Constitution (the "Turkish Constitution") was re-enacted in the Principality of Serbia in 1838, Miloš Obrenović appointed seventeen members of the Council and the Grand Court, including Mileta Radojković. On June 11, 1842, he became an honorary member of the Society Of Serbian Letters.

During the First Serbian Uprising, as the Nahija prince Mileta, he renovated the Monastery of Saint Nikola Mirlikijski in Svojnovo. He built today's church and today's old eastern residence from the remains of the destroyed monastery.

Mileta Radojković died on September 26, 1852. He was buried in Varvarin next to the Church of the Holy Mother of God.

Legacy The street in Belgrade in the municipality of Stari grad was named after him - Knez Miletina Street, and also a street in Jagodina is named after him.