Panta Radosavljević-Dunavski or Vojvoda Dunavski (28 August 1876 - 1941) was a Serbian army officer and Chetnik commander in Old Serbia and Macedonia in the early 20th century. He was also a writer.
Early years
Radosavljević was born in Belgrade,
Principality of Serbia (now
Serbia
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) on 28 August 1876. After finishing gymnasium (high school) in Belgrade, he attended the prestigious
Military Academy in Belgrade. In 1905, as an artillery lieutenant he joined the
Serbian Chetnik Organization in Belgrade and volunteered to fight in
Old Serbia and
Macedonia against the oppressive regime of Sultan
Abdul Hamid of the
Ottoman Empire
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. He participated in several battles, including the
Fight on Čelopek against superior forces of the Ottoman Army, alongside
Gligor Sokolović,
Jovan Babunski, and
Sreten Rajković-Rudnički, another military man from the same academy. He also participated in the Balkans Wars of 1912 and 1913 and
World War I
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.
Literary years
Between the wars, he wrote historical articles for learned publications in Belgrade:
* ''Dve katastrofalne godine 1389 i 1915'' (Two Catastrophic Years: 1389 and 1915), 1925
* ''Šta je Maćedonija?'' (What is Macedonia?), 1925
World War II
During World War II Radosavljević in his senior years joined the army. In April 1941 he was captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp in Nuremberg, where he died of tuberculosis in December of the same year.
See also
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List of Chetnik voivodes
Sources
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19th-century Serbian people
Serbian Chetnik Organization
Royal Serbian Army soldiers
Serbian soldiers
Serbian military personnel of the Macedonian Struggle
Yugoslav military personnel of World War II
20th-century deaths from tuberculosis
Serbian prisoners and detainees
Prisoners who died in German detention
1876 births
1941 deaths
World War II prisoners of war held by Germany
Yugoslav prisoners of war
Military personnel from Belgrade
Tuberculosis deaths in Germany