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Vojin Popović, known as Vojvoda Vuk ( sr, Војин Поповић, војвода Вук; 9 December 1881 – 29 November 1916) was a Serbian ''voivode'' (military commander), who fought for the Macedonian Serb Chetniks (i.e. komiti) in the Struggle for Macedonia, and then the Serbian national army in the Balkan Wars and
Vojin was born on 9 December 1881 at
World War I
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Life
Vojin was born on 9 December 1881 at Sjenica
Sjenica ( sr-cyr, Сјеница, ) is a town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of southwestern Serbia. The population of the town, according to 2011 census, is 14,060 inhabitants, while the municipality has 26,392.
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, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
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(present-day southwestern Serbia
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). Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Kragujevac, where Vojin attended school. He chose a career in the military. On 3 November 1901, he became ''second lieutenant''. He was among the first ''cheta'' (bands, 'čete') heading for ''Old Serbia
Old Serbia ( sr, Стара Србија, Stara Srbija) is a Serbian historiographical term that is used to describe the territory that according to the dominant school of Serbian historiography in the late 19th century formed the core of the ...
'', i.e. Makedonia (1905).
He was killed after being shot through the heart on top of the Staravinski vis near Gruništa, Novaci Municipality
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in skirmishes after the Battle of Kaymakchalan on 29 November 1916 during the height of World War I. There is a Monument to Vojvoda Vuk in Belgrade.
Legacy
* There is a Monument to Vojvoda Vuk in a Belgrade park called ''Proleće.''See also
* List of Chetnik voivodesReferences
* Anonymous, "One eyewitness of the Vojvoda Vuk`s death speaks about his last minutes", Politika, 25 October 1936. * Anonymous, „The monument to Vojvoda Vuk – Vojin Popović was unveiled in Belgrade“, Belgrade municipal newspapers, no. 10, October 1936, 780–781 * Danilo Šarenac, Tradition of the irregular troops: the monument to Vojvoda Vuk in Belgrade, in: The Collection Premises of the Memory, 2, Department for the History of Art at the Faculty of Philosophy, the University of Belgrade, Belgrade 2013, 49–65Sources
* 1881 births 1916 deaths People from Sjenica People from Kosovo vilayet Serbian military personnel of the Balkan Wars Serbian people of World War I Serbian military personnel killed in World War I 19th-century Serbian people 20th-century Serbian people Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to Serbia {{Serbia-hist-stub