May Assembly

May Assembly
Proclamation of Serbian Vojvodina - May Assembly in 1848 in Sremski Karlovci. Author: Pavle Simić (1818-1876).

May Assembly (Serbian: Мајска скупштина / Majska skupština) was the national assembly of the Serbs in Austrian Empire, held in 1 and 3 May 1848 in Sremski Karlovci, during which the Serbs proclaimed autonomous Serbian Vojvodina. This action was later recognized by the supreme Austrian authority in Vienna. May Assembly was part of the European Revolutions of 1848.

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Prelude

After news of the Paris revolution of 1848 reached Austrian Empire, absolutist reign of Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich was weakened. In this time, regions of Banat, Bačka and Syrmia were administratively divided between the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary (in the north) and the Habsburg Military Frontier (in the south). An sizable percent of Austrian soldiers within Military Frontier were ethnic Serbs, who protected Austrian borders in exchange for certain political freedoms that they were able to enjoy within the frontier, whose administration functioned independently from the county-system of the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary.

After the outbreak of the revolution in the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary on March 15, 1848, new government of the kingdom did not accepted requests of the Serbs for recognition of their national rights, taking a stance that all citizens of the Kingdom of Hungary are Hungarians. Serbs, whose national rights and freedoms were previously regulated within the Habsburg Monarchy saw this position of the government of the Kingdom of Hungary as a degradation of their status. After the initial Serb political demands for recognition of their national rights were rejected by the new government of the Kingdom of Hungary, Serb demands became more radical and Serb national movement turned against new revolutionary government of the Kingdom of Hungary.

Assembly

Realizing that Hungarian revolutionary leaders are not willing to recognize national rights of the Serbs, political leaders of the Serbs decided to held an assembly on which an separate Serb voivodeship within Austrian Empire will be proclaimed.

Assembly was held in May the 1st and 3rd, 1848 in Sremski Karlovci (a town within the Habsburg Military Frontier). The beginning of the May Assembly was declared from the balcony of Sremski Karlovci City Hall. The assembly proclaimed a creation of Serbian Vojvodina and its political alliance with the Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia.

During the assembly, Serbian Orthodox Metropotitan Josif Rajačić was elevated to the dignity of the Serbian patriarch (a title formerly held by Arsenije Čarnojević), Đorđe Stratimirović was elected for the Vožd (leader of Serb national movement), while Stevan Šupljikac was declared for a Voivode (duke) of the newly formed voivodeship.

The decisions of the Assembly

Assembly officially adopted following decisions:[1]

Aftermath

Decisions of the May Assembly were later recognized by the Austrian emperor, who reciprocated to Serbs for participating in the war against Hungarian rebels by official formation of an separate crownland named Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar (formed in 1849). New Voivodeship was independent from Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary and was directly subordinated to Viena. It consisted of the regions of Banat, Bačka and Syrmia (municipalities of Ilok and Ruma), excluding parts of mentioned regions that were within the Habsburg Military Frontier. This Voivodeship, however, had somewhat different borders from Serbian Vojvodina that was proclaimed in 1848. It was more ethnically mixed and included eastern parts of Banat with mainly Romanian population, while parts of the Military Frontier in which Serbs formed the majority were not included into new Habsburg crownland.

Trivia

Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, one of the best-known Serbian poets, derives his nickname (Zmaj) from May Assembly date, May 3, 1848 (in Serbian Cyrillic: 3.мај / Змај; in Latin transliteration: Zmaj).

References

  1. ^ http://www.yurope.com/nasa-borba/arhiva/Maj98/1005/1005_2.HTM

See also

External links

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