Former Anthem of the Principality of Serbia (1815-1882) | Vostani Serbije | Lyrics

Lyrics by: Dositej Obradović

Vostani Serbije ("Arise, Serbia"), also known as Pesna na insurekciju Serbijanov ("A poem on the insurrection of the Serbs", is a Serbian patriotic song, originally a poem written by Dositej Obradović, 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. 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 became the first Minister of Education of Revolutionary Serbia.

The Cyrillic lyrics are in the Slavonic-Serbian language, in which the song was written, while the Latin lyrics are in modern Serbian. The English translation is meant to be literal and does not follow the meter of the song.