Đuka Galović (8 April 1924, in

Drenovci Drenovci ( hu, Drenóc, german: Drenowitz) is a village and municipality in the Vukovar-Syrmia County in Croatia. The municipality is part of Slavonia. Population According to the 2011 census, there are 5,174 inhabitants, in the following se ...

– 11 July 2015) was a Croatian folk musician and songwriter. He is best known for dialect

tambur The ''tambur'' (spelled in keeping with TDK conventions) is a fretted string instrument of Turkey and the former lands of the Ottoman Empire. Like the ney, the armudi (lit. pear-shaped) kemençe and the kudüm, it constitutes one of the fou ...

songs such as ''Slavonci smo i Hrvati pravi'', ''Oko Studve i bistrog Bosuta'' and ''Odavno smo graničari stari'' ("Border guards of old"). The latter deals with the defense of Croatia from the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

. The song speaks of border guards of old, long keeping the border on the

river Sava The Sava (; , ; sr-cyr, Сава, hu, Száva) is a river in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia and along its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina ...

:Mala hrvatska pjesmarica Zvonimir Čičić - 1976 "3.2 Odavno smo graničari Odavno smo graničari stari. Čuvali smo granicu na Savi, na Savi.* Čuvali ju sa starih čardaka. Branili ju hrabro od Turaka, hrabro od Turaka. I djedovi svoju krv su lili, da čuvaju naš zavičaj ..."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Galovic, Duka Croatian songwriters Croatian male songwriters 1924 births 2015 deaths People from Županja