Evo Zore, Evo Dana

"Evo zore, evo dana" (English translation: ''Here comes the dawn, here comes the day'') is a

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marching song A march, as a musical genre, is a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm which in origin was expressly written for marching to and most frequently performed by a military band. In mood, marches range from the moving death march in Richard ...

It was written after the Black Legion's battle for Kupres in the summer of 1942. The Black Legion fought off the attack by the Montenegrin

Chetniks The Chetniks,, ; formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland; and informally colloquially the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist m ...

Pavle Đurišić Pavle Đurišić ( sh-Cyrl, Павле Ђуришић, ; 9 July 1909 – 21 April 1945) was a Montenegrin Serb regular officer of the Royal Yugoslav Army who became a Chetnik commander ('' vojvoda'') and led a significant proportion of the Che ...

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. The name refers to the time between the dawn and full daylight when the Crna Legija (Black Legion) surprised both forces with a counterattack that drove them out of

Kupres Kupres ( sr-cyrl, Купрес) is a town and the seat of the Municipality of Kupres in Canton 10 of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, the municipality has a population of 5,057 inhabitant ...

and its surrounding area. Its lyrical origins are unclear, but some unsourced claims state that it was written by an anonymous poet from Herzegovina. The lyrics, translated to English, are as follows: There are more than 40 verses in the original song, but only seven or eight are usually sung. The seven or eight commonly known verses are these: Other verses include these: In 1992, the new version of this song was performed by

Dražen Zečić Dražen Zečić (born 24 July 1967) is a Croatian singer-songwriter. He was born in Split in 1967. He initially began his career as a songwriter, writing for musicians such as Mate Bulić, Zlatko Pejaković, and Mišo Kovač. In 1990, he releas ...

from the album '' Evo zore, evo dana'' during the

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