Црни Ђорђе или Кара Ђорђе. (О надимку Ђорђа Петровића)
Black George or Kara Đorđe. (On the Nickname of Đorđe Petrović)

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of the First Serbian Uprising, Đorđe Petrović was called Black, in Turkish, Kara. Serb historiography did not discuss when and why he acquired that nickname, which became an integral part of his name. In this paper, based on his contemporaries' memoirs, primarily Lazar Arsenijević Batalka and Gajo Pantelić, the author claims that the nickname was given to Đorđe by his mother, Marica, when he «stuck» a bee hive on her head. That is when she called him Black. During the First Serbian Uprising, in both domestic and foreign sources, his nickname was used in both Serbian and Turkish versions. The Turkish version eventually prevailed, and became family name of the well known Serb dynasty of Karađorđević, which ruled Serbia and Yugoslavia for 70 years.

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