National Anthem of Serbia (1815 1882) Востани Сербіє ( Vostani Serbije)
National Anthem of Serbia (19401944): Востани Сербіє ( Arise, Serbia; Serbian Latin: Vostani Serbije), also known as Песна на инсурекцију Сербијанов ( A poem on the insurrection of the Serbs; Serbian Cyrillic: Pesna na insurekciju Serbijanov), is a Serbian patriotic song, originally a poem written by Dositej Obradović (17391811), published in Vienna in 1804, dedicated to Serbia and her brave warriors and sons and to their leader Georgije Petrović at the beginning of the First Serbian Uprising that transformed into the Serbian Revolution against the Ottoman Empire. Obradović, delighted, he happily and sincerely greeted the Serb uprising with this special, patriotic poem. Obradović extensively used the concept of Mother Serbia in his works, including this poem. Of his poems, Vostani Serbije is the most patriotic. In it, he calls on a new Serbia, with overtones of memory on the Serbian Empire which had been long gone. Obradović then became the first Minist
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