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Topic: Slaughter of the knezes
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Slaughter of the knezes

Years: 1804 - 1804

The Slaughter of the Knezes refers to a massacre that is committed in January 1804, on the central square of Valjevo, Serbia.

The victims are the most prominent Serbian nobles, titled Knezes ("local dukes"), of the Belgrade Pashaluk.

They are executed by the Ottoman Dahias, the Jannisary junta that rules Serbia at this time.

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past...Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered."

― George Orwell, 1984 (1948)