Serb uprising of 1737–1739

The Serbian Uprising of 1737–1739 was an uprising of Serbs against the Ottoman rule, that broke out in central regions of Ottoman Serbia during the Habsburg-Ottoman War (1737-1739). Following some initial Habsburg defeats during the early stages of the war, the emperor Charles VI issued various proclamations to the Christians in the Balkans, calling them to rise against the Ottomans. The emperor called on the Serbs, who were ready to revolt, on 15 June 1737, and stressed that they would fight in an alliance with Christian powers, the Habsburg Monarchy and the Russian Empire, against a common enemy. The Serbs responded by organizing themselves under Serbian Patriarch Arsenije IV. The uprising had a wide geographical extent, from Belgrade to eastern Bosnia, Montenegro and the Šar Mountain. The Albanian Klimenti tribe also joined the uprising. The failed war prompted Serbs, mostly from Herzegovina, Raška, Metohija and Montenegro, to flee under the leadership of Arsenije IV from the Ottoman-held territories into the Habsburg monarchy, thus initiating the Second Great Migration of the Serbs.