Battle of Ivankovac
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The Battle of Ivankovac (Serbian: Бој на Иванковцу/Boj na Ivankovcu) was the first full-scale confrontation between Serbian revolutionaries and the regular forces of the Ottoman Empire during the First Serbian Uprising.
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Part of the First Serbian uprising | |||||||
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Ottoman Empire | |||||||
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Hafiz Mustafa Pasha † | |||||||
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initially 2,500 men, later reinforced with 5,000 more[1] | 20,000 men[1] |
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In the Summer of 1805, Hafiz the Ottoman pasha of Niš, gathered an army to crush the Serbian rebels led by Milenko Stojković near the village of Ivankovac. The battle ended with a Serbian victory and the death of the pasha, prompting Ottoman Sultan Selim III to declare jihad (holy war) against the Serbs.