Dimitrije "Ditko" Aleksić ( sr-cyr, Димитрије Алексић; died August 4, 1916), was a Serbian guerrilla fighter in

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 ...

and Macedonia during the

Macedonian Struggle The Macedonian Struggle ( bg, Македонска борба; el, Μακεδονικός Αγώνας; mk, Борба за Македонија; sr, Борба за Македонију; tr, Makedonya Mücadelesi) was a series of social, po ...

, and commander in the

Balkan Wars The Balkan Wars refers to a series of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan States in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, the four Balkan States of Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria declared war upon the Ottoman Empire and defe ...

and

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 ...

Life

Dimitrije Aleksić was born in the village of Osiče in the Kosovo Vilayet of 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) ...

(present-day

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) in the last quarter of the 19th century. With the establishment of the

Serbian Chetnik Organization Serbian may refer to: * someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe * someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people * Serbian language * Serbian names See also * * * Old Serbian (disambiguation) ...

, his village supported and joined the Serbian Organization. In 1905 he was in the ''čete'' (squad) of Đorđe Ristić,

Spasa Garda Spasa Pavlović ( sr-cyr, Спаса Павловић; ca. 1880 – November 7, 1912), known as Spasa Garda (Спаса Гарда, "Spasa the Guard") or Zmaj (Змај, "the Dragon"), was a Serbian Chetnik commander in Old Serbia during the Macedo ...

and Krsta Trgoviški. He became ''vojvoda'' (duke) in 1911, and with that rank he participated in the

and

. He died at the Salonican Front on August 4, 1916.

Sources

* * *Narodna enciklopedija Srpsko-hrvatsko-slovenačka, br. 1, 607. {{DEFAULTSORT:Aleksic, Ditko 19th-century births 1916 deaths Year of birth unknown People from Staro Nagoričane Municipality People from Kosovo vilayet Serbian rebels Serbian military leaders Serbian military personnel of the Balkan Wars Serbian military personnel killed in World War I