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List Of Serbian Soldiers
This is a list of Serbian soldiers since the establishment of the Principality of Serbia. It only includes participants in wars. Balkan Wars * David Albala * Ditko Aleksić * Miša Aleksić-Marinko * Jovan Atanacković *Jovan Babunski *Petar Bojović *Vukajlo Božović * Koporan Čauš *Ljuba Čupa * Dušan Dimitrijević * Jovan Dovezenski * Dragutin Jovanović-Lune *Svetomir Đukić * Spasa Garda *Jovan Grković-Gapon * Živko Gvozdić * Petko Ilić *Bogoljub Jevtić *Ljuba Jezdić * Danilo Kalafatović *Tasa Konević * Stojan Koruba *Radoje Ljutovac * Kosta Vojinović * Krsta Kovačević * Stanislav Krakov * Todor Krstić-Algunjski *Dimitrije Ljotić *Branislav Milosavljević *Aleksandar Mišić *Živojin Mišić *Jovan Naumović *Milutin Nedić * Stevan Nedić-Ćela *Borko Paštrović *Kosta Pećanac *Vojin Popović *Zafir Premčević *Radomir Putnik * Darko F. Ribnikar *Borisav Ristić *Sava Petrović-Grmija *Slobodan Šiljak *Stepa Stepanović *Dane Stojanović *Vojislav Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Principality Of Serbia
The Principality of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl, Књажество Србија, Knjažestvo Srbija) was an autonomous state in the Balkans that came into existence as a result of the Serbian Revolution, which lasted between 1804 and 1817. Its creation was negotiated first through an unwritten agreement between Miloš Obrenović, leader of the Second Serbian Uprising, and Ottoman official Marashli Pasha. It was followed by the series of legal documents published by the Sublime Porte in 1828, 1829 and finally, 1830—the Hatt-i Sharif. Its ''de facto'' independence ensued in 1867, following the evacuation of the remaining Ottoman troops from the Belgrade Fortress and the country; its independence was recognized internationally in 1878 by the Treaty of Berlin. In 1882 the country was elevated to the status of kingdom. Background and establishment The Serbian revolutionary leaders—first Karađorđe and then Miloš Obrenović—succeeded in their goal of liberating Serbia from centuri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petko Ilić
Petko Ilić ( sr-cyr, Петко Илић; July 1886 – March 17, 1912) was a Serbian Chetnik commander active in Macedonia. Life Ilić was born in Staro Nagoričane. He became a ''vojvoda'' in 1906. Petko Ilić was born in July 1886, in Staro Nagoričane, a Serbian village that is primarily known for its Church of St. George built in 1071 and reconstructed between 1313 and 1318 by Serbian king Stefan Milutin. At the time of Petko Ilić's birth that Christian territory was still under the long occupation of the Ottoman Empire. His inheritance, from generations of Serbian ancestors, was hate of Turkish tyranny and the example of many forefathers who fought against it futilely. When he was six-years-old he saw his family members dragged from home in chains by Turkish soldiers and Bashi-bazouks, lashed and imprisoned, on a charge of treason. As a youngster of 16 in 1903, he joined what he thought was a Serbian ''četa'' (band of freedom fighters), led by Valko Mandarčev, a Bulgar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandar Mišić
Aleksandar "Aca" Mišić ( sr-cyr, Александар Аца Мишић; 17 June 1891 – 17 December 1941) was a Serbian military commander holding the rank of major. During World War II Mišić was complicit in handover of 365 captured Yugoslav Partisans to the Germans. Mišić was caught operation Mihailovic by the Germans and executed on 17th of December. In December 2016, Serbian pro- Chetnik publicist Miloslav Samardžić of ''Pogledi ''Pogledi'' (Serbian Cyrillic: ''Погледи'', meaning Viewpoints in English) was a Serbia-based magazine devoted to politics and history, published biweekly.''Pogledi'', issue number 70, November 9–23, 1990. YU ISSN 0353-3832 ''Pogledi'' was ...'' published an article stating that Mišić may have actually died in 1944 and not in 1941. References External sources * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Misic, Aleksandar 1891 births 1941 deaths Military personnel from Belgrade Serbian soldiers Royal Serbian Army soldiers Serbian military per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branislav Milosavljević
Branislav R. Milosavljević (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранислав Р. Милосављевић; 2 August 1879 – 17 April 1944) was a poet and a colonel of the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia, the first mayor of Durrës within Drač County and author of numerous patriotic poems, most notably the famous war poem ''Izgnanici'', better known as ''Kreće se lađa francuska'' (The French Ship is Sailing). During World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ..., his patriotism inspired him to write stirring war songs, one which, ''Kreće se lađa francuska'', was printed by the order of King Peter I of Serbia and distributed in the thousands. It was immediately transcribed into music. In 1940, Milosavljević retired to his property at Belgrade, where he, by his vast library ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitrije Ljotić
Dimitrije Ljotić ( sr-cyr, Димитрије Љотић; 12 August 1891 – 23 April 1945) was a Serbian and Yugoslav fascist politician and ideologue who established the Yugoslav National Movement (Zbor) in 1935 and collaborated with German occupational authorities in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia during World War II. He joined the Serbian Army with the outbreak of the Balkan Wars, fought on the Serbian side during World War I and remained in active service until 1920, when he decided to pursue a career in politics. He joined the People's Radical Party that year and became regional deputy for the Smederevo District in 1930. In 1931, he was appointed to the position of Yugoslav Minister of Justice by King Alexander I but resigned following a disagreement between him and the king over the layout of the Yugoslav political system. Ljotić founded Zbor in 1935. The party received little support from the largely anti-German Serbian public and never won mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todor Krstić-Algunjski
Todor Krstić ( sr-cyr, Тодор Крстић; 1904–34), known by the nickname Toša (Тоша) and ''nom de guerre'' Algunjski (Алгуњски), was a Serbian Chetnik commander in Old Serbia and Macedonia during the Macedonian Struggle. In Bulgaria he is considered a Bulgarian renegade who switched sides, i.e. (sic) '' Serboman''. Life Krstić was born in the village of Algunja in the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia). Algunja was surrounded by Albanian-inhabited villages of Čukarka, Suševo and Mutilovo; Krstić had even before joining the organized Chetnik action, jumped into the region from Vranje, assassinating known ''zulumćari'' (persecutors of Christians). On April 18, 1902, together with Krastyo Kovachev, he joined the Bulgarian cheta of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee with a commander Sotir Atanasov, which operated in Kriva Palanka area. With this company he moved later to the Bulgarian town of Kyustendil. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanislav Krakov
Stanislav Krakov ( sr-Cyrl, Станислав Краков; 1895–1968) was a Serbian officer, Chetnik guerrilla, journalist, writer and film director. He participated in the Balkan Wars and First World War. During the Second World War, he supported his maternal uncle, General Milan Nedić, and was the editor of Nedić's newspapers ''Novo vreme'' and ''Obnova''. Early life Krakov was born in Kragujevac, Kingdom of Serbia. His father, Sigismund, was a doctor of Polish origin, and his mother Persida was a granddaughter of Nikola Stanojević, a lord from Zeoke and nephew of voivode Stanoje Mijailović, who was killed during the First Serbian Uprising. Military service Not being able to enroll in the regular army, since he was only 17 years old, he joined the volunteer guard of Vojvoda Vuk, a Chetnik unit, in the war against the Ottoman Empire in 1912. The following year he was back on the frontline of the Serbian defence, this time against Bulgaria, where he was wounded nea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krsta Kovačević
Krsta Kovačević ( sr-cyr, Крста Ковачевић; 1877—January 30, 1948), known as Krsta Trgoviški (Крста Трговишки), was a Serbian Chetnik commander that was active in Old Serbia and Macedonia during the Macedonian Struggle (1903–08), then participated in the Balkan Wars (1912–13) and World War I (1914–18). In Bulgaria he is considered a Bulgarian renegade who switched sides, i.e. (sic) '' Serboman''. Early life Kovačević was born in the village of Trgovište in the Pčinja region, which at the time was administratively part of the Preševo ''kaza'' (administrative region) of the Kosovo Vilayet in the Ottoman Empire (now located in Serbia). He was a blacksmith in his birth village until 1900, when he murdered an Ottoman soldier who beat up his younger brother Spiro. He fled to the Principality of Bulgaria where he worked as a labourer on the railways in Sofia. IMRO Kovačević was soon noticed by the pro-Bulgarian Internal Macedonian Revolut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosta Vojinović
Kosta Vojinović ( sr-cyr, Коста Војиновић, 13 May 1891 – 23 December 1917), known by his nickname ''Kosovac'' (Косовац), was a Serbian soldier who fought in the Balkan Wars, World War I, most notably as a leader of the Toplica insurrection. Life Vojinović was born in Smederevo, Kingdom of Serbia, to parents who had fled from the Vučitrn area in Kosovo, due to Albanian '' zulum'' (exploitation, oppression, wrongdoing), the region at the time being part of the Ottoman Empire. He came from a respected family, his father Jovan having finished military school in Russia and upon returned to Serbia he worked as a state clerk of the general tax administration, and later was the president of a municipality in Kosovska Mitrovica up until World War I. His mother Sofija died while he was young, and he did never accept his step-mother, he thus mostly lived with his mother's family, mostly at his uncle Panta Grujić, a high-ranking Serbian army officer (who was a comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radoje Ljutovac
Radoje Ljutovac (4 September 1887 – 25 November 1968) was a Serbian soldier from the village of Poljna, Serbia. Private Radoje Ljutovac fought in the First World War in the Serbian Army, and is officially credited with the first shooting down of a military aircraft with Ground-to-Air artillery fire. Balkans War During the Balkan wars in 1912-1913, as a gunner, he contributed to the liberation of Serbia from the Ottoman Empire and the defense of Bulgaria. First World War He joined the First World War as a gunner in the Serbian Army and participated in their battles in 1914. During 1915, Serbia was again attacked by the Austro-Hungarian and the German Empire. Ljutovac was placed in the battalion artillery regiment "Tanasko Rajic", a special unit at the time, operating the newly formed anti-air battery. His regiment, which was located on a hill near Kragujevac Metin, was tasked to defend the area from enemy aircraft, as buildings such as the Military Technical Institut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stojan Koruba
Stojan Simonović ( sr-cyr, Стојан Симоновић, 1872–1937), known by his ''nom de guerre'' Koruba (Коруба), was a Serbian Chetnik. Early life Simonović was born into a poor family in Šaprance, at the time part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1878 the Preševo ''kaza'', a frontier district on the Ottoman-Serbian border, was established, which included his village. He did not go to school, and worked as a shepherd. When he got older, the guerilla movement began in the region. Serbian Chetnik Organization Stojan crossed the border in night-time and entered the frontier villages, and went to the Monastery of St. Panteleimon in Lepčince where he contacted the Central Board of Vranje, then swore oath. He was initially a ''jatak'', helper, and was entrusted with delivering important letters, then escorted bands in groups of ten across the border into the Preševo kaza and also into Macedonia, none of which died. His knowledge of geography made him a pillar of the organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasa Konević
Tasa Konević Apostolović ( sr, Таса Коневић Апостоловић; d. 1916) was an Orthodox priest and Macedonian Serb Chetnik from Krapa in Poreče. He was the son of a local Serb chief, Kone Apostolović, who was the leader of the Prilep Serbs at the end of the 19th century, and one of the richest in the village. Priest Tasa was the protector of Serbdom in Poreče and led the local guerrilla organization. He participated in the Ilinden Uprising (July–August 1903), orchestrated by the Bulgarian-organized Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), with a Serb band. After the Kokošinje slaughters (July–October 1904) and IMRO attacks on Macedonian Serbs, he organized the village self-defense units and joined Gligor Sokolović and his neighbour Trenko Rujanović, of the Serbian Chetnik Organization. Tasa defended and administrated the village throughout the Macedonian Struggle. An important event was the attack on Krapa by combined bands of the IMRO, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
