Lepenica (region)
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Lepenica (Serbian: Лепеница) is a historical subregion (or microregion) in Šumadija in central Serbia. It was a knežina (administrative unit) in Revolutionary Serbia. It includes villages in the Mladenovac and Mionica municipalities.
In the late Ottoman period, Lepenica was a knežina (Christian self-governing village groups) belonging to the Kragujevac nahiya.[1]
During the First Serbian Uprising (1804–13), the Lepenica area was organized into a knežina (administrative unit) of Revolutionary Serbia, belonging to the Kragujevac nahija. The Kragujevac nahiya had included three[2] or four[1] knežina (Christian self-governing village groups) prior to 1804, the Lower Gruža, the Upper Gruža, Lepenica, and Jasenica; with the uprising, the Gruža knežina was organized as one.
The Lepenica men under the command of Đuka participated in the Battles of Batočina and Jagodina (March–April 1804).[3] During the siege of Čačak (1815), Pavle Cukić crossed Krčmar in Lepenica on his way to the Požarevac nahija, rallying people.[4]
Among the most notable participants in the Serbian Revolution that hailed from Lepenica or were active there are:
- Đuka (fl. 1804–), obor-knez of Lepenica, from Jagnjilo.[5]
- Dimitrije Parezan (1780–1813), kapetan of Lepenica, from Brzan, fell at Deligrad.[5]
- Stevan Filipović (fl. 1804–), secretary, from Jagnjilo.
- Pavle Cukić (1778–1817), vojvoda of Lepenica (–1812), from Krčmar.
- Miloš Saranovac, vojvoda of Lepenica (1812–).
