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Tesla's family roots
His paternal grandfather Nikola, born around 1789, after whom he was named, was a sergeant in Napoleon's army. During the Napoleonic wars, Military Frontier was part of the newly-formed French Province of Illyricum.

After the Napoleon's defeat in Waterloo in 1815, Illirian provinces reverted to Habsburg control. Nikola was returned to his native village of Raduč in Military Frontier, where he soon married Ana Kalinic. They had five children - two sons and three daughters. Tesla's father, Milutin, was born in 1819. According to tradition, in the Military Frontier in the Austrian Empire, Nikola sent both sons to a military school. The younger Joseph successfully completed the military school, while the older Milutin, due to emotional sensitivity, gave up and then entered the seminary and became a Orthodox priest. Joseph served as an officer in the Military Frontier, and he retired with the rank of captain on November 1, 1871 in Petrovaradin. During his career as an officer, he wrote a textbook on mathematics and gave lectures on this subject at a military school.

After graduating from the seminary as the best student, in 1845, Milutin Tesla was ordained a deacon in 1846 by Bishop Evgeni Jovanović of Karlstad and sent to the village of Štikadu near Gračac as a chaplain (priest's assistant). Milutin Tesla and Georgina-Đuka Mandic are most probably marriage in the second half of 1846 or the first in 1847.

Her maternal grandfather, Toma Budisavljević, was also in the Grand Army, and he was awarded by Napoleon the Legion of Honour for his military merits. Đuka, Tesla's mother, was born in 1822 in Gornji Gračac, to father Nikola Mandić (1801–1868), parish priest of Gornja Gračac and mother Sofija-Soka Budisavljević. Nikola and Sofija Mandić had eight children, and Georgina-Đuka was the oldest. Her brothers or Tesla's uncles were Pavle Mandić, colonel of the Austrian army and Petar Mandić, bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

In 1847, Milutin was ordained as a priest and his first place of ministry was Senj. The third of their five children was born there - son Danilo-Dane and daughters Milka and Angelina. In 1852, the family moved to Smiljan, where Milutin's new place and parish house next to the church of St. Peter and Paul at the foot of a small hill.

Emperor Franz Joseph I, awarded Milutin with the decree of June 21, 1873, the Order of the Golden Cross of Merit, 1st class (Goldness Verdienstkreuz mit der Krone).