Janko Katić

Janko Katić
Born1770s
Rogača, Ottoman Empire
Died1 August 1806
Krnić, Revolutionary Serbia
(now Serbia)
Buried
Sibnica church in Rogača
Allegiance
Service years1804–1806
Rankbuljubaša (1790s), vojvoda (1804)
UnitTurija unit
CommandsTurija (Kosmaj area), Belgrade blockade line
Known forHeroic commander, regarded second-in-command
ConflictsFirst Serbian Uprising

Janko Katić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јанко Катић; 1770s–1806) was Serb revolutionary, a general (vojvoda) active in the First Serbian Uprising leading rebels of the Kosmaj area. A veteran of the Serbian militia that fought the Janissaries in the 1790s, he joined the uprising since the beginning. He was regarded second-in-command to supreme leader Karađorđe and is remembered as especially heroic.

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