| New Serbia Нова Србија / Nova Srbija Нова Сербія Новая Сербия Noua Serbie | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Territory of the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| 1752–1764 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Novomirgorod | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1752 | ||||||||
• Abolished | 1764 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Ukraine | ||||||||
New Serbia or Novoserbia[a] was a military frontier of Imperial Russia from 1752 to 1764 subordinated directly to the Governing Senate and Military Collegium. It was situated in the territory of New Russia.[1] In 1764, the territory became part of the New Russia Governorate.[2]
The founder of New Serbia was Jovan Horvat. Horvat was a leader of a group which rejected a post-riot compromise reached after the demilitarization of their section of the Military Frontier.[3] The rejected compromise envisaged transfer of those who want to remain warriors to the Banat Military Frontier while those who would remain in the region would get provincial status with preservation of religious autonomy.[3] Contrary to serfs, Eastern Orthodox Serbs enjoyed substantial levels of autonomy (in exchange for providing forces to fight against the Ottoman Empire) granted in multiple documents starting with Statuta Valachorum, but which was gradually obsolete or eliminated by the creation of centralized modern state. The Horvat's colonization idea was enthusiastically supported by Elizabeth of Russia, and it was the first centrally planned settlement of the southern steppe which led to deterioration of Russian relations with Habsburg monarchy and Ottoman Empire and crystallization of the key features of the future Eastern Question.[3]
The region was mostly located in the territory of present-day Kirovohrad Oblast of Ukraine, although some of its parts were located in the territory of present-day Cherkasy Oblast, Poltava Oblast and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The administrative centre of New Serbia was Novomirgorod (literally "New Mirgorod"),[2] which is now Novomyrhorod, Ukraine.
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- ^ Bartlett, Roger P. (13 December 1979). Human Capital: The Settlement of Foreigners in Russia 1762-1804. CUP Archive. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-521-22205-1.
- ^ a b LeDonne, John P. (14 July 2014). Ruling Russia: Politics and Administration in the Age of Absolutism, 1762-1796. Princeton University Press. p. 301. ISBN 978-1-4008-5578-0.
- ^ a b c Dyck, Harvey L. (1981). "New Serbia and the Origins of the Eastern Question, 1751-55: A Habsburg Perspective". The Russian Review. 40 (1). Wiley-Blackwell: 1–19. doi:10.2307/128731. JSTOR 128731.