Todor Krstić ( sr-cyr, Тодор Крстић; 1904–34), known by the nickname Toša (Тоша) and ''
nom de guerre
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'' Algunjski (Алгуњски), was a
Serbian Chetnik commander in
Old Serbia
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and
Macedonia during the
Macedonian Struggle
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. In Bulgaria he is considered a Bulgarian
renegade
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who switched sides, i.e. (sic) ''
Serboman''.
Life
Krstić was born in the village of
Algunja
Algunja ( mk, Алгуња) is a village in the Municipalities of North Macedonia, municipality of Staro Nagoričane Municipality, Staro Nagoričane, North Macedonia.
Demographics
As of the 2021 North Macedonia census, 2021 census, Algunja had 300 ...
in the
Kosovo Vilayet of the
Ottoman Empire
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(present-day
North Macedonia
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). Algunja was surrounded by Albanian-inhabited villages of
Čukarka,
Suševo
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Demographics
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 723 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2002) ''Boo ...
and
Mutilovo; Krstić had even before joining the organized Chetnik action, jumped into the region from
Vranje
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, assassinating known ''zulumćari'' (persecutors of Christians). On April 18, 1902, together with
Krastyo Kovachev, he joined the Bulgarian cheta of the
Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee
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with a commander
Sotir Atanasov, which operated in
Kriva Palanka
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...
area. With this company he moved later to the Bulgarian town of
Kyustendil
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. He and his comrades were interned under Ottoman pressure by the Bulgarian authorities in
Varna
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and later in
Kavarna
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. From there, Krastev left for Russia and then settled in Belgrade, Serbia. He himself became one of the regional ''vojvoda'' (duke) and worked closely with ''vojvoda''
Petko Ilić. After the
Battle of Stratsin against a Bulgarian squad in March 1912, in which Petko Ilić died, Krstić succeeded him as the unit's commander. He fought in the great battle at
Šumata Trnica on March 21, 1912, in which eight Serbian rebels were killed, including
Svetozar Mihajlović-Purca from
Tuzla
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.
[Trifunović 1930, p. 44]
See also
*
List of Chetnik voivodes This is a list of Chetnik voivodes. VoivodeAlso spelled "voievod", "woiwode", "voivod", "voyvode", "vojvoda", or "woiwod" () ( Old Slavic, literally "war-leader" or "war-lord") is a Slavic as well as Romanian title that originally denoted the prin ...
References
Sources
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19th-century births
20th-century deaths
People from Staro Nagoričane Municipality
People from Kosovo vilayet
Serbian rebels
Serbian military personnel of the Balkan Wars
Serbian military personnel killed in action