Serbian Revival

The Serbian Revival (Serbian: Српски препород, Srpski preporod) or Serbian national awakening refers to a period in the history of the Serbs between the 18th century and the de jure establishment of the Principality of Serbia (1878). It began in Habsburg territory, in Sremski Karlovci.^[1] The Serbian renaissance (Српска ренесанса, Srpska renesansa) is said to have begun in 17th-century Banat.^[2] The Serbian Revival began earlier than the Bulgarian National Revival.^[3] The first revolt in the Ottoman Empire to acquire a national character was the Serbian Revolution (1804–1817),^[1] which was the culmination of the Serbian renaissance.^[4] According to Jelena Milojković-Djurić: "The first literary and learned society among the Slavs was Matica srpska, founded by the leaders of Serbian revival in Pest in 1826."^[5] Vojvodina became the cradle of the Serbian renaissance during the 19th century.^[6] Philologist and language reformer Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and cultural benefactor Sava Tekelija were two of the most instrumental figures in this period.^[7][8][9]

The Serbian Revival threatened to jeopardize Austria, to question its strategic interests.^[10] The Serbs had established the short-lived Serbian Vojvodina during the 1848 Revolutions through armed conflict with the Hungarians, as part of the Revival.^[11]

Although the Serbian Revival adopted the idea of cooperation between the Yugoslav peoples, and was influenced by its national policy basis and possibility of establishment of a Yugoslav state, it still, in a cultural and national-political view, stayed Pan-Serb.^[12]

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  Second Serbian Uprising (1815–17)
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  Proclamation of Serbian Vojvodina (1848)
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  Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
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  Sava Tekelija