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Jovica Milutinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јовица Милутиновић; 1773-1846) was a celebrated Captain of the Kolubara District during the First and Second Uprising. He was one of the many influential participants in the stormy events of the long and protracted Serbian Revolution from 1804 to 1835, yet successful in the end.

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Jovica Milutinović was born in the Kolubara District in the village of Sanković situated now in the Mionica municipality in Serbia. He can trace his Milutinović ancestors back to the Serbian Middle Ages, thanks to a tombstone still standing in his village.[1] He became the Knyaz of Valjevo with his exploits in both uprisings[2].

Jovica Milutinović appeared on the battlefield after the Slaughter of the knezes, together with Knez Nikola Grbović and other insurgent leaders of the Valjevo nahija, and with them, as a buljukbashi, he first liberated Valjevo from the Turks. He became a Captain in 1810. In later battles, he participated bravely everywhere until the Karađorđe's uprising was suppressed by the superior Turkish Army in 1813. In 1813 he was forced to move to Srem, then part of the Habsburg Monarchy, before the invading Ottomans.

With the capitulation of Karađorđe's Serbia in 1813, Captain Jovica Milutinović took refuge in Srem with most of the uprising elders. Immediately after the beginning of the Second Serbian Uprising in April 1815, he returned to Serbia and participated in the liberation of Palež and Valjevo (for the second time) and then drove the Turks out of Šabac Nahija altogether.[3][4]. After the death of Prince Raka Tešić in 1823, he became the prince of the Kolubara principality of Valjevo, as well as the knez of the town of Valjevo, later a member and president of the Valjevo magistrate in a ruined state. He was one of the principal players in the Hussar Rebellion of 1844, better known as the 'Katunska buna and when it was foiled he went in exile in his hometown of Ruma where he died in 1846. Married to wife Peladija, he had a daughter who married Jevrem Tadić, an influential merchant from Valjevo.

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  • Translated and adapted from Serbian Wikipedia: https://sr.wikipedia.org/sr/%D0%88%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%9B