Then the Arch-priest of Boukovik put on his sacerdotal robes
and accepted and consecrated that oath according to the sacred
law.
From that time on, Kara-George took supreme direction and
command of the whole movement, and everything went accord-
ing to one man's command.
In the middle of February the revolt burst forth
throughout the whole Pashalik. Servians from the
adjoining lands were ready in large numbers to join
the insurrection.
Besides Kara-George, there came to the front as
leaders Ianko Katich, Sima Markovich, Vassa Tchar-
apich, who raised the standard of revolt in the Bel-
grade and Grotzka districts, and Mladen Milovano-
vich, a rich merchant of Botunia, near Kragouyevatz,
put his whole fortune at the disposition of the insur-
rection. At the first sound of revolt in the Shoumadia



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all the other districts had sprung to arms. In the
Koloubara, Jacob Nenadovich, whose brother Alexa
had been slaughtered in the massacres, led the
people, drove the Turks from the town of Val-
yevo, then invaded Shabatz, in the north, where he
joined forces with Popa Luka Lazarevich. In the
Shabatz district also Heyduk Djourchia and his
men were at work. These three forces in junction
soon held all the Shabatz country, up to the river
Drina.
In eastern Servia, in the districts between the Mo-
rava River and the Timok, the standard was borne
by Milenko Stoykovich, and lower down by Petar
Dobrnyatz, while Todorovich raised the Resava dis-
trict. Within less than a week from the first outbreak
the entire country was in arms; sharp fighting with
Janissary forces occurred on all sides. The first
important encounter with the Dahias took place
near Svileyva and the Monastery of Tchokoshima.
