Petar Dobrnjac
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Petar Dobrnjac (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Добрњац) (1771-1831) was a Serbian Vojvoda in the First Serbian Uprising. He was born in the Požarevac nahia, in the village of Dobrinji. In his youth, he was a hajduk, and later a trader in farm animals.
[edit] Role in the Uprising
In 1804, the year of the First Serbian Uprising, he was a Buljubaša (the commander of a četa), under Milenko Stojković. In 1805 he took part in the Battle of Ivankovac against Hafiz-paša, after which the Правитељствујушчи совјет awarded him the rank of Bimbaša (a commander of 1000 men) and Vojvoda. After the Battle of Deligrad in 1806 against Ibrahim-Paša of Skadar, he became one of the most important men in Serbia.
