Belgrade Military Academy
The Military Academy of the University of Defence () is a college devoted to military education and career development located in Belgrade, Serbia. The academy forms part of the Serbian higher education system, offering accredited graduate and postgraduate curriculum. It contains a undergraduate military college (which conducts officer training) as well as postgraduate studies. Educational program The following levels of studies are organized in the Military Academy: * Undergraduate academic studies * Postgraduate specialist studies * Postgraduate master studies * Postgraduate specialisations * The Reserve Officers School * Fundamental, applied and developing research important for raising of quality of degree-granting education, training of scientific and teaching staff and briefing students on scientific work Undergraduate academic studies A professional qualification, moral completeness and physical readiness are the basis for successful realization of tasks and comman ...
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General Petar Topalovic
A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air and space forces, marines or naval infantry. In some usages, the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED Online. March 2021. Oxford University Press. https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/77489?rskey=dCKrg4&result=1 (accessed May 11, 2021) The adjective ''general'' had been affixed to officer designations since the late medieval period to indicate relative superiority or an extended jurisdiction. French Revolutionary system Arab system Other variations Other nomenclatures for general officers include the titles and ranks: * Adjutant general * Commandant-general * Inspector general * General-in-chief * General of the Air Force (USAF only) * General of the Armies of the United States (of America), a title created for General John J. Pershing, and subsequently granted posthumously to George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant * (" general admiral") ( ...
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Mihailo Rašić
Mihailo Rašić (Aleksinac, Principality of Serbia, 13 June 1858 - Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia, 17 February 1932) was a Serbian military leader. He served as Royal Yugoslav Army general and Minister of War of the Kingdom of Serbia in World War I. After the war, in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, he continued his service as Minister of the Army and Navy in the Ministry of Defence. He served as the 16th dean of the Academic Board of the Military Academy in Belgrade (1912-1914). Early life Rašić was born on June 13, 1858, in Aleksinac to father Petar, a court clerk, and mother Katarina. In the third grade, he moved to Belgrade and lived with his aunt Stana until he graduated from high school. He enrolled in the Artillery School of the Military Academy as a cadet on 20 September 1874. He became a corporal on 6 September 1875, Sub-Sergeant on 4 May 1876, and sergeant on 1 June 1876. He graduated from the academy in September 1880, eighth in his class, ahead of Stepa Stepanović and Ž ...
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Mihailo Živković
Mihailo Zivković-Gvozdeni (Belgrade, Principality of Serbia 29 August 1856 – Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 28 April 1930) was a Serbian general and a minister of war. Zivković-Gvozdeni commanded forces in the Serbian–Turkish Wars (1876–1878), Serbian-Turkish wars, the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885, the Balkan Wars and World War I and received many decorations for his military service. Early life and family Zivković-Gvozdeni was born on 29 August 1856 in Belgrade. His father Jovan was a merchant and his mother was named Stanka. He was a descendant of Milenko Stojković and Hajduk Veljko, Hajduk Veljko Petrović through his father's and mother's line. He finished elementary school and Gymnasium in Belgrade. Zivković was married to Darinka, the daughter of Ranko Godjevac, a merchant from Valjevo. They had three sons Miodrag, Jovan and Milan. Serbian-Turkish wars On 20 September 1874, Zivković-Gvozdeni joined the Serbian army. He was assigned as a cadet to the 11th class ...
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Leonid Solarević
Leonid Solarević ( sr-Cyrl, Леонид Соларевић; 18 September 1854 in Belgrade – 20 April 1929 in Belgrade) was a Serbian military Officer (armed forces), officer. As a colonel of the Royal Serbian Army, he was one of the main participants in the May Coup (Serbia), May Coup of 1903 against King Alexander I of Serbia, Alexander I of Kingdom of Serbia, Serbia. He also served as the 14th Dean of the Academic Board of the Military Academy (Serbia), Military Academy in Serbia and its chief from 1904 to 1907. Career After a career in artillery, Solarević became Aide-de-camp#Serbia, aide-de-camp to King Alexander I of Serbia, Alexander I in August 1893, and the main aide-de-camp in May 1898. Due to his opposition to the King's marriage to Draga Mašin, he was retired at his own request in July 1900. At the same time, he was relieved of his duties as an officer. On the day of the May Coup (Serbia), May Coup () Solarević was reactivated, with the rank of colonel he had bef ...
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Lazar D
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Pavle Bošković (general)
Pavle Bošković (Ruma, Austrian Empire, 11 August 1849 - Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 23 April 1923) was a Serbian Army general and the 12th Dean of the Academic Board of the Military Academy and its chief (1900-1901). Biography Pavle Bošković was born on 11 August 1849 in Ruma. "NA", Narodna enciklopedija srpsko-hrvatsko-slovenačka, Beograd, knjiga 1, 269 M. Milicevic, Lj. Popović, 2003, p. 66 He graduated from high school in Belgrade in 1865 and in the same year he enrolled the Artillery School of the Military Academy in Belgrade as a cadet. In 1869 Bošković graduated from the Military Academy and immediately after that in January 1870 he was promoted to the rank of artillery lieutenant. Until 1872 he served as an NCO in a Field battery, and from 1872 to 1873 as an artillery inspection. In 1873 as a state cadet Bošković was sent to Prussia to take a course on how to improve in the quartermaster's service. Upon his return to Serbia in 1875. just befor ...
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General Milovan Pavlović
A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air and space forces, marines or naval infantry. In some usages, the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED Online. March 2021. Oxford University Press. https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/77489?rskey=dCKrg4&result=1 (accessed May 11, 2021) The adjective ''general'' had been affixed to officer designations since the late medieval period to indicate relative superiority or an extended jurisdiction. French Revolutionary system Arab system Other variations Other nomenclatures for general officers include the titles and ranks: * Adjutant general * Commandant-general * Inspector general * General-in-chief * General of the Air Force (USAF only) * General of the Armies of the United States (of America), a title created for General John J. Pershing, and subsequently granted posthumously to George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant * (" general admiral") ( ...
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Jovan Petrović (general)
Jovan Petrović (Serbian: Јован Петровић; Sombor, Austrian Empire, 16 June 1843 - Niš, Kingdom of Serbia, 19 March 1902) was a Serbian Army general, Minister of Defence and Minister of Public Works of the Kingdom of Serbia. He also served as 10th Dean of the Academic Board of the Military Academy in Serbia from 1894 to 1897. Military Academy Jovan Petrović was born on 16 June 1843 in Sombor. His father Petar was the head of the workshop at the Military Technical Institute in Kragujevac. Jovan finished high school in Belgrade, then he finished four grades of Gymnasium in Kragujevac, and in Belgrade, he graduated from Velika škola. He then enrolled in the Military Academy in Belgrade in 1860. He graduated from the Academy in 1865, when he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. During the incident at Čukur česma in 1862, he joined the freedom fighters at the barricades. War Academy in Berlin After graduating from the Military Academy, he served in the Arti ...
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Minister Jovan Petrovic
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