Editing House of Karađorđević (section)

==Name==
In English, the family name can be [[anglicized]] as '''''Karageorgevitch''''' (e.g., as with [[Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch]] and [[Philip, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia|Prince Philip Karageorgevitch]]) or [[Romanization of Serbian|romanised]] as '''''Karadjordjevic'''''. Its origin is as a [[Patronymic|patronym]] of the [[sobriquet]] ''Karađorđe'', bestowed upon the family's founder, [[Karađorđe|Đorđe Petrović]], at the end of the 18th century.  

In 1796, [[Osman Pazvantoğlu]], the renegade governor of the Ottoman [[Sanjak of Vidin]], who had rejected the authority of the [[Sublime Porte]], launched an invasion of the [[Sanjak of Smederevo|Pashalik of Belgrade]], governed by [[Hadji Mustafa Pasha]] since 1793. Overwhelmed, Mustafa Pasha formed a Serbian national militia to help stop the incursion.{{sfn|Singleton|1985|p=77}} Đorđe Petrović joined the militia and became a ''[[boluk-bashi]]'' ({{langx|sr|Buljukbaša|italics=yes|links=no}}),{{efn|''Boluk-bashi'' was equivalent to the rank of captain.{{sfn|Skrivanić|1982|p=310}}}} leading a [[Company (military unit)|company]] of 100 men.{{sfn|Jelavich|Jelavich|2000|p=29}} After the Serb militias joined the war on Mustafa Pasha's side, Pazvantoğlu suffered a string of defeats. He retreated to [[Vidin]], which was subsequently besieged.{{sfn|Jelavich|Jelavich|2000|pp=27–28}} The war against Pazvantoğlu marked the first time that Petrović had distinguished himself in the eyes of the Ottomans, who bestowed upon him the sobriquet "Black George" ({{langx|sr|Karađorđe|italics=yes|links=no}}; {{langx|tr|Kara Yorgi}}), partly because of his dark hair and partly because of his sinister reputation.{{sfn|Rehm|1992|p=392}}{{sfn|Pavlowitch|2002|p=29}}