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Karađorđe led the so-called First Serbian Uprising (1804-1813) against Ottoman Turks. It is known that the Hapsburg monarchy provided Serbian forces with weapons and other war necessities, as well as flags. There was a flag embroidery store in Sremski Karlovci in wich these flags were made.
Ivan Sarajčić, 15 January 1999
The guidebook of the Military Museum in Belgrade [gmb8X] describes flags from the First Serbian Uprising.
On page 45 two flags are shown. The first one is the most famous flag from that period, and it was also showed on several Yugoslav stamps. It is a square banner with painted heraldical emblem consisting of two almond-shaped (mandel) coats of arms - Serbia (cross with four očila) and Rascia (arrow pierced boar's head), Below this on the page, there are some weapons including two different flags (one seems to be monocoloured, the other is red with a wide white cross troughout). The flag is ringed on all sides.
The other flag shown on the same page is a banner for vertical hoisting, roughly in ratio 1:1, swallow-tailed with tongue, where indentations reach some 1/3 into the flag. It seems that the flag was yellow or white, and have painted three 'Teutonic' crosses (red?) 1/3 from the top.
The text beside these pictures does not say anything about them, apart from the caption:
The banners from the First Serbian uprising.
However, on page 48 there is the description of the showcase 9/room 21, which I believe consists of the aforementioned two flags:
Banner from the early days of the Uprising, 1804.
In the beginning of the Uprising, the banners were borrowed from churches or some of the haiduk [partisan fighters of pre-Uprising period] banners were used. Since 1805, Karađorđe and other outstanding leaders ordered banners from