Background
Rashko was born c. 1770 in the region of Old Herzegovina, like Tešan Podrugović, but later moved to Kolašin.
Rashko was born c. 1770 in the region of Old Herzegovina, like Tešan Podrugović, but later moved to Kolašin.
According to some theories, he was probably a brother of Marko, the grandfather of Svetozar Marković. At the beginning of the First Serbian Uprising, Rashko came to the village of Sabanta in the Jagodina nahiyah. He participated in the First Serbian Uprising and distinguished himself in the Battle of Lipar (1804), in which he raised the revolutionary flag, and the Battle of Deligrad (1806).