Aksentije Miladinović

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Aksentije Miladinović (c. 1760, Čibutkovica -- 23 January 1820) was one of the four knezes who played a crucial role at the beginning of the First Serbian Uprising in 1804 and the first knez and voivode to surrender to Hurshid Pasha after the insurrection was crushed in 1813. He also participated in the Second Serbian Uprising and played an equally important role in negotiating a peace treaty with the Turks in 1817.

Knez Aksentije Miladinović died on 23 January 1820 and was buried in the old cemetery in Čibutkovica. The high memorial and the massive stone tablet still mark the place where the knez and vojvode Aksentije Miladinović was buried almost two centuries ago. By the form and design, the memorial is a typical tombstone from greater Belgrade at the end of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

It was cut in harder, greenish sandstone mined in the surroundings for the past two centuries. With its monumental appearance, it dominates the whole area. In the valorization of memorial legacy in Serbia, and particularly in greater Belgrade, the monuments from the Karađorđe era represent a first-class historic and social legacies and their value match the importance of the period...