Dušan Dimitrijević ( sr-cyr, Душан Димитријевић; December 9, 1882 – August 6, 1964), known as Vojvoda Dule (Војвода Дуле), was a Serbian Chetnik commander active in

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during the

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, also participating in the

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and as a regular soldier in the

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Life

Dimitrijević was born on December 9, 1882, in Rabrovo (now part of

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), in the

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(present-day

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).Narodna enciklopedija srpsko-hrvatsko-slovenačka, Beograd 1929, knjiga 1, 507 As a student in the Great Law School he joined the work of Youth groups against the Obrenović dynasty. As an editor of ''Oslobođenje'' ("Liberation"), he gave moral support to the Chetnik Organization. In 1904 he himself joined the ''četa'' (band) of

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and participated in the Fight on Čelopek. On the eve of the

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he was part of an important mission sent to the

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, and met with

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. In 1912 he showed courage in the regular units of the Serbian Army. He was seriously wounded during the First Balkan War but did not wish to wait for a full recovery, instead rejoined his unit only half recovered. In the

he was a guerilla fighter, and he established a Serbian conspirational organization in the vicinity of Visoki,

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and

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in 1914. He was seriously wounded three more times, but as before he rejoined his unit at the front half recovered. He was awarded the

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with Swords (IV). He was the chief of the Serbian delegation at the Allied Reparations Committee in

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. After the War, he returned to law and published a series of books in the field.Narodna enciklopedija Srpsko-hrvatsko-slovenačka, 1, Beograd 1927, 594. He was elected a state deputy in 1923, on the list of the Agrarian Party.

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Dušan Dimitrijević-Dule in Chetnik gear.jpg, Dule in Black Chetnik gear

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