Marko Mesić (1640-1713)
Marko Mesić may refer to: *Marko Mesić (priest) (1640–1713), a Croatian priest and war hero *Marko Mesić (soldier) (1901–1982), a Croatian soldier in the Royal Yugoslav Army and the Wehrmacht See also *Mesić (other) Mesić may refer to: People * Mesić (surname) Places * Mesić (Vršac), a village in Banat, Vojvodina, Serbia * Mesić Monastery, a monastery in Banat, Vojvodina, Serbia See also * Mesic (other) {{disambiguation ...

Marko Mesić (priest)
Marko Mesić (1640? in Brinje – 2 February 1713 in Karlobag) was a Croatian priest and war hero from the Ottoman wars in Europe, Ottoman wars. Under his command, Croats and Serbs liberated the region of Lika in the 17th century. Biography In 1683 when Austro-Turkish war begun, Marko Mesić went to Ravni Kotari where he joined the local rebels against the Ottoman Empire, Turks. Soon afterwards he goes to Krbava and Lika and organizes uprising against the Turks from Brinje. On 15 June 1689 he captured Novi and a number of other villages who surrendered without a fight. Finally, Udbina was liberated on 21 July 1689. References

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Marko Mesić (soldier)
Marko Mesić (30 September 1901 – 9 February 1982) was a decorated Artillery, gunnery officer who served in the armies of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Independent State of Croatia, and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, SFR Yugoslavia. He is best known for being the final commander of Croatian Legion, Croatian legionnaires in World War II, serving in the Nazi Germany, German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front (World War II), Eastern Front in the Battle of Stalingrad, and later joining Yugoslav People's Army. Early life Mesić was born in Bjelovar, Croatia (then part of the Austria-Hungary, Austrian-Hungarian Empire), to Franjo and Katarina Mesić (née Blau). He received eight years of schooling in Pécs, Hungary; Karlovac, Croatia; and Maribor, Slovenia, before graduating as an artillery, artillery/gunnery officer at the Royal Yugoslav military academy in Belgrade. He served as an active commissioned officer in Royal Yugoslav Army artillery units until 1941. At the ...
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