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 The Principality of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl, Књажество Србија, Knjažestvo Srbija) was an autonomous state in the Balkans that came into existence as a result of the Serbian Revolution, which lasted between 1804 and 1817. Its creation was ...

(now

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) on 28 August 1876. After finishing gymnasium (high school) in Belgrade, he attended the prestigious

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in Belgrade. In 1905, as an artillery lieutenant he joined the

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in Belgrade and volunteered to fight in

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and Macedonia against the oppressive regime of Sultan Abdul Hamid of the

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. He participated in several battles, including the Fight on Čelopek against superior forces of the Ottoman Army, alongside

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, and Sreten Rajković-Rudnički, another military man from the same academy. He also participated in the Balkans Wars of 1912 and 1913 and

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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.

Sources

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Radosavljević, Panta 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