Three-finger salute (Serbian)
The three-finger salute ; or three fingers,, commonly known as the Serbian salute, is a salute which the thumb, index and middle finger are extending. It originally expressed the Holy Trinity, used in oath-taking, and a symbol of Serbian Orthodoxy, while today simply is a gesture, distinctive sign for the ethnic Serb and a symbol for belonging to the Serbian nation.
Three-finger salute
The Takovo Uprising (1888), by Paja Jovanović
2008 Kosovo is Serbia rally in Belgrade
2012 Boris Tadić electoral rally
The Orašac Assembly was the gathering of 300 Serbian chiefs and rebels on 14 February [O.S. 2 February] 1804 at Orašac, a village near Aranđelovac, following the "Slaughter of the Knezes" which saw 70 notable Serbs murdered by the renegade Janissaries in January which prompted the Serbs to rise up against the tyranny, resulting in the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. Karađorđe was appointed leader of the Serbian rebels after they all raised their "three fingers in the air" and thereby swore oath. The site of the assembly, Marićevića jaruga, is today a memorial complex.
Illustration of the assembly from Život i dela Kara Đorđa (1903).