Herzegovinian rebellion

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The Herzegovinian Rebellion (locally Hercegovački ustanak) is a name used for the most famous of the rebellions against the Ottoman Empire in Herzegovina that took place in 1875.

This particular event was precipitated by the harsh treatment of the mainly Catholic Croat and Orthodox Serb serfs under the Bosniak begs and agas of this then-Ottoman province of Bosnia.

The 1875 rebellion began in the Croat regions of Gabela and Hrasno, led by don Ivan Musić beginning on June 19. The Serb uprising began around the village of Nevesinje on July 9 in eastern Herzegovina, and is thus called the Nevesinje gun (Невесињска пушка).

Another rebellion against the Ottomans took place in Herzegovina fifteen years before this one, in 1858-1862, but it did not gather as much momentum. This particular uprising would flare up most of what was then called Turkey in Europe (notably Bulgaria). Thus ensued a major Christian war against the Turks in 1876-1878 which alternatively involved Montenegro, Serbia, Russia and Bulgaria. These wars against Turkey ended with a peace deal struck at the Congress of Berlin.

After Herzegovina was occupied by Austria-Hungary, two more rebellions arose in 1878-1882 and 1887, but they also gathered less momentum than the 1875 one.