Mirko Apostolović, known as Uzun-Mirko (; 1782 – 1868) was a Serbian (military commander), with the rank of bimbaša during the Serbian revolution; he took part in both the First and Second Serbian Uprising. He was famed for his many wounds, undetected infiltration into the Ottoman fort at Belgrade, among other operations, which gained him many awards. He is the founder of the Uzun-Mirković family.
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Mirko Apostolović, known as Uzun-Mirko (; 1782 – 1868) was a Serbian (military commander), with the rank of bimbaša during the Serbian revolution; he took part in both the First and Second Serbian Uprising. He was famed for his many wounds, undetected infiltration into the Ottoman fort at Belgrade, among other operations, which gained him many awards. He is the founder of the Uzun-Mirković family.
==Life== Mirko was born in 1782, in Brajkovac (then Smrdljikovac), near Lazarevac. His family were of the Piperi, and settled first in Rudnik, they then moved to Belgrade, and during the Austrian-Turkish War they lived in Srem. His father Petar Apostolović and grandfather Apostol died in the Austrian-Turkish War in 1792. They fought in Kočina Krajina, in the Austrian Freikorps against the Ottoman Turks. At the return from Srem, Mirko and his mother lived in Mislođin, then he moved to Belgrade, where he learned to be a tailor. He received his nickname 'Uzun' from his height, the Turkish word for tall.
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