Talk:Karađorđe/Archive 1

Name/title
I'm sure that there are articles in English in books and encyclopedias about this person, but they're not going to be in this fashionable Romanization. Yes, it's thrilling to have the Serbian government, or whoever, officially prescribe a Romanization from the Cyrillic, and to try to impose it upon all peoples who use the Latin alphabet, but there surely are articles in English about this person that can't be accessed because they couldn't possibly use the remarkable characters used in his name. (I'm sure that that's not the letter eth.) This article, and all others trying the same trick, should include the standard terms in English -- or just keep to the Serbian Wikipedia. 64.69.127.105 (talk) 19:51, 8 May 2008 (UTC)


 * The current title is completely unacceptable. Can anyone point to any major sources in English that use this unfamiliar character when referring to this man?  This probably should just be at Kara George. john k (talk) 17:16, 29 January 2011 (UTC)


 * It's the letter dje. Aleksamil (talk) 16:40, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Rewrite
D, I see that you deleted a lot of text from the article as unverifiable. Could you return it and only delete POV? I translated the article from Sveznanje which is a reputable source, so when they say that he killed a Turk before joining Freikorps or that he was tipped about Dahias' intentions, it probably was so. Nikola 10:13, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I consulted other sources while writing the stuff. I'd rather have us here dissect all of it because I removed stuff which I couldn't verify (and Sveznanje version didn't look good). According to sources I consulted (I did it from a library, so I should be able to find those books again) there was no mention of killing a Turk before joining Freikorps. I'll try to consult more sources and see if I overlooked it. As far as the tip goes, sure, that seems valid. Sveznanje obviously isn't that reputable, as their version was rather POV, so why assume factual accuracy?


 * Maybe current historians don't consider that bit interesting or important. As Sveznanje was written during Karadjordjevic's rule, it could be expected that there will be some POV. But I don't see what would anyone gain from writing that Karadjordje killed a Turk if that didn't happen. Nikola 13:03, 3 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Also, it's not just about deleting POV stuff, it's also about making the article read NPOV and balanced. --dcabrilo 10:23, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I added the stuff about killing a Turk as well, but will double check. --dcabrilo 10:26, 30 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Look, that was just an example. You deleted more. For example that he distinguished in an attempt to capture the Kalemegdan. Nikola 13:03, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Real name
His real name should be mentioned in the introduction, not as a footnote! I changed that.--2003:EE:3F18:B017:11BF:B0FD:6CEB:1EE1 (talk) 21:05, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * There is a manual of style which should be respected when it comes to lead section and first sentence. It can be found here - link. I reverted your bold edit and presented wikipedia guideline based argument for the revert. Now per WP:BRD you should gain consensus for your position, not edit war. Best regards.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 13:33, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I am by no means for an edit war. But I couldn't find anything in your link saying that a person's real name should not be mentioned in the first sentence. I mean, If you look at Puff Daddy's or Fifty Cent's article (these may be strange examples, but anyway, these articles show that there's always the name next to the nickname) or the Roman Emperor Caligula (now something more intelectual) you will find their real names mentioned just after or before the "artistic" name. I don't understand why Karadjordje's real name should not be mentionend at the beginning of the article. He wasn't born with the nickname. The part in the manual (your link and even the main page) doesn't say anything about it (as far as I can tell).--2003:EE:3F18:B0A5:11C3:8D65:D10A:58D (talk) 11:56, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I now see what was your point. You wanted to add the person's name, but on the way you removed other substantial parts of the first sentence, such as native language name and its pronunciation. I agree with you. The version of this article which was GA reviewed also presented the name of the person at the beginning of the first sentence. Thank you for noticing this.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 22:05, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, that was my point. Sorry for deleting the other parts. But it was all about his real, full name. I thought that would not only be appropriate, but also according the Wiki rules, so I couldn't really follow your suggestion. I hope it's all good now. Cheers.--2003:EE:3F18:B0D7:F993:2265:4058:9A1C (talk) 21:06, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is. Have you considered registering on wikipedia? I volunteer to help you with first steps, if you want to do so? --Antidiskriminator (talk) 21:43, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I am not really a follower of Wikipedia. Of course once in a while I read an article if I need information and sometimes I find something that doesn't seem to be correct, so I change that or I don't. But thanks for asking. Happy New Year.--2003:EE:3F18:B0D7:F0B2:52C2:E5BF:A940 (talk) 11:53, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Potential Albanian ancestry
Dear fellow Wikipedians,

It has been brought to my interest that Karađorđe may have had Albanian ancestry through his father, Petar Jovanović. His father's father (i.e. his grandfather) is noted to have been Jovan Mršin Kliment (Albanian: Gjin Marash Kelmendi). This would explain his father's surname of Jovanović (being the son of Jovan), as well as why the family celebrated the feast day of Saint Clement.

I quote, from the Wikipedia article of the Karađorđević dynasty, "According to some researchers, Karađorđe's paternal ancestors most likely migrated from the Highlands (in what is today Montenegro) to Šumadija during the Second Great Serb Migration in 1737–39 under the leadership of Patriarch Šakabenta, as a result of the Austrian-Turkish War (in which Serbs took part)." This suspiciously coincides with the migration of 1,600 Kelmendis in 1737 (and some Serbs) to the north (Habsburg territory), which could very well include Karađorđe's village of birth, Viševac (Albanische Geschichte: Stand und Perspektiven der Forschung, p. 239 (in German)).

This theory is also the main point addressed in the book "Karađorđevići - sakrivena istorija" (originally in Serbian Cyrllic), published in 2006. The authors were "Milorad Bosnjak, a journalist, and Slobodan Jakovljevic, a mechanical engineer, who is the direct descendant of James Obrenovic, a half-brother of Serbian Prince Milos Obrenovic." The theory was also supported by the Serbian theorist Dimitrije Tucović (book: Srbija i Arbanija (Selected papers, Book II, page 77)).

Apparently Alexander I of Yugoslavia, part of the Karađorđević dynasty, also knew about the house's Albanian ancestry. Here is a part of an article published on the Montenegrin news website Portal Analitika on August 26th, 2017 (link: https://portalanalitika.me/clanak/278773/mit-je-da-je-karadorde-petrovic-bio-porijeklom-iz-vasojevica)(translated from Montengrin/Serbo-Croatian): "Karadjordjevici prior to the Second World War agreed that the origin of the Kliment: Andrija Luburić had been studying Karađorđevo's background for years, and he persistently claimed that Karadjordje originated from Kliment, and he also announced this in Karadjordjević himself. Bosniak and Jakovljevic represent: " According to available documents in the Archives of Serbia, Andrew Luburić is to discuss the origin of the Karadjordjevic Klimenata, in the period from 25 January 1929th to 14th November 1939, was often called on the audience in the court Karadjordjevic... " (p. 36)

In the Luburić collection in the Archives of Serbia, this record was found, which was created on July 24, 1940:

" In 1933, King Alexander told one Albanian champion:" Me and my father, the Government and the General Staff for our lives should thank us for being Klimente. An Albanian tribe wanted to kill us, but they did not dare because the Kliment ordered them they do not touch their noble King Peter because they will light the blood, they have given up. '" (p. 37)."

Thank you for taking your times to read this. I should also mention that no one I have sourced in this section is of Albanian origin or ancestry - only Serbian. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ArbDardh (talk • contribs) 23:36, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Napoleon's quote
I'm not really sure about Napoelon's supposed quote about Karađorđe. First of all, most of the sources where I actually found the quote were Serbian nationalist forums, except for this one online newspaper article. Secondly, the translation of the quote is very poor and, grammatically, quite atrocious. Thirdly, I couldn't find any sources for the date of the quote, and this date makes it sound as though he said it at the Battle of Aspern-Essling, and as I said, I could not find a source to confirm that. I decided to just tag it with, but in my opinion it should be completely removed. Aleksamil (talk) 16:55, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The talk has had no response, I'm deleting the quote for unverifiability. Aleksamil (talk) 18:54, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Also, it seems to me that it isn't neutral - it seems to be historical revisionism? Aleksamil (talk) 19:00, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Murder of George's father
M. E. Durham writes in "Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle"

''...In 1787 a panic seized the peasants when an Austrian attack upon the Turks was expected. To save themselves and their flocks from the approaching Turkish army they fled in crowds, hurrying to cross the Save and finding safety in Austria. George's father was very reluctant to go, and on reaching the river would not cross it. George, in a blind fury, refusing either to stay himself and make terms with the Turks, or to leave his father behind, snatched the pistol from his sash and shot the old man down. Then, shouting to a comrade to give his father a death-blow, for he was still writhing, George hurried on, leaving behind him a few cattle to pay for the burial and the funeral feast.''

This amazing account is most probably well-refuted, but shouldn't it be added to the article? With refutation, of course. -- Tiphareth 02:33, 3 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually no, the story is true (except that it was his stepfather). Nikola 09:18, 3 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Apparently there are many concurrent versions (stepfather, patricide because of father's betrayal, and also a patricide due to George's mother's insistence upon his betrayal). Fratricide on top of it as well. Some of these are due to a character assassination campain by Russian envoy Rodofinikin. Here is a good account of some versions (in Russian): "РАЗЫСКАНИЕ ОБ ОТЦЕУБИЙСТВЕ". I expect that adding such lurid details would incur patriotic wrath and speedy revert (at least that's what typically happens in Russian and Polish sectors of Wiki in such cases). --Tiphareth 11:19, 3 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I think not if it's done in thoughtful way. Information about character assassination might be especially interesting, as I never heard of it, it's apparenly not being paid much attention to in our history. Nikola 09:41, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Name

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: moved per request. Favonian (talk) 19:43, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

Karađorđe Petrović → Karađorđe –

Primary topic, he is predominantly referred to as simply "Karađorđe" - as per Napoleon.--Z oupan 06:23, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Support, per WP:COMMONNAME, "Karađorđe Petrović" - 7 hits, Karađorđe 7,780 hits--Antidiskriminator (talk) 08:08, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Support, sure, that is good one! -- WhiteWriterspeaks 17:47, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Brithday
Karadjordje wasn't born on November the 3rd, he was born on November the 16th, because on November the 16th is Saint George day in Serbian Ortodox calendar, and there were tradition amongs the Serbs to give names afther the saint on which day their children were born. Karaddjordje was given name in honour of Stn George...Also look on Serbian wikipedia ...212.200.65.121 (talk) 11:46, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Summary paragraph
I made some formatting and grammatical updates for ease of reading, it was pretty tough going before. I'd appreciate someone taking a look to make sure these updates don't accidentally change anything factual. Kduckworth (talk) 18:16, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

He smashed a beehive onto his mother's head
There are dozens of sources which claim that Karadjordje smashed a beehive onto his mother's head when he was angry about something. (link to GBS). Best regards,--Antidiskriminator (talk) 21:35, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Family feast day
The article says: "His family celebrated the feast day of Saint Clement." This source says that his family celebrated St. Nicholas feast day until they moved to Vranj and changed their feast day to St Clement. This is confirmed by many other sources that can easily be found on GBS. This source explains that member Karadjordje's family today celebrate Saint Andrew.

To conclude, the assertion about feast day of his family is not completely accurate. It should be amended with information about previous and later feast days of his family. Saint Nicholas → Saint Clement → Saint Andrew. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 07:12, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Tribal and territorial origin of the family
The article simply says: "They are said to have been descended from the Vasojevići tribe of Montenegro's Lim River valley."

The family origin is subject of numerous scholarly works and still subject of dispute. All of them are very nicely explained in this work:. I reccomend using this work for further clarification of origin of Karađorđes family.

Tribal origin:
 * One theory says that it is Vasojevići, another that it is Kuči and some that they were Zećani. There is also an opinion that Kuči hypothesis does not exclude Vasojevići. Additionally, Vasojevići hypothesis have many subversions because some theories say that his family were not regular Vasojevići, because they belonged to Srbljaci which were the most ancient Vasojevići. There is an important assertion that his original family was Gurešići (Đurišići) whith Tripko Gurešić being the ancestor of family who moved from Montenegro to Sanjak of Smederevo, via Lijeva Rijeka and Crnča/Lozna (in Ottoman held Bijelo Polje) to Sanjak of Smederevo in modern-day Serbia.

Only Vasojevići hypothesis is presented as a fact.

Territorial origin: --Antidiskriminator (talk) 07:47, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Some theories say that it is from Montenegrin Lim valley (which is presented in the article and belonged to Vasojevići), but some theories say came from Vranj (which belonged to Zećani tribe). Other theories say that they came to Vranj from Doljani (which belonged to Kuči tribe).

NOT FACTUAL
"The historian Ivo Banac surmises that "there would be no Bosnian Muslims today" had Karađorđe extended his uprising west of the Drina.[102]"

This is speculation and opinion and is not the fact. This cannot be stated in this pages if you are to state facts not speculations.

172.58.41.189 (talk) 06:55, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Regarding Karadorde
What's so disruptive about it? Karadorde originating from the Kelmendi tribe is highly supported as an actual fact as Karadorde's origins itself aren't certain, and even if you don't support and believe it it as a theory at least it should be noted and mentioned as an informative theory as it is highly plausible and supportive one by many Serbian and non-Serbian authors. Regarding the Serbian Wikipedia page of Skanderbeg its whole existence as a page is disruptive and not informative at all but rather propagandist Dardania0 (talk) 2:26, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I moved your post here as this is the appropriate place. First of all, this is English Wikipedia and we have no authority over Serbian Wikipedia. If you want discuss an article on Serbian Wikipedia, you should go there. In English Wikipedia articles, all the info has to be sourced to WP:reliable sources (see also WP:V). The more controversial the claim is, the more reliable sources are needed (see WP:EXCEPTIONAL). In your edit, you cite two sources: one is an except from a book written by a little known author in 1914. The other is a newspaper article that cites a book written by a journalist and a mechanical engineer. Those are not what we call reliable sources. If you want to present such an controversial claim (that Karađorđe was of Albanian origin), you need to present reliable sources like scientific articles or books written by respected historians.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  09:53, 6 September 2020 (UTC)


 * I totally agree with . It should be mentioned in the article regarding the origin of Karadorde. Lorik17 (talk) 00:47, 9 September 2020 (UTC)