Trenko Rujanović ( sr-cyr, Тренко Рујановић; born c. 1870), known as Vojvoda Trenko (Војвода Тренко), was a Macedonian Serb Chetnik and Bulgarian apostate.

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Rujanović was born in the village of Krapa, in the

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region, part of the

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(now R. Macedonia). His father was Jovan Rujanović. In 1895, he participated into the pro-Bulgarian

Supreme Macedonian Committee chetas' action The Supreme Macedonian Committee chetas' action in 1895 was an armed expedition of several chetas from Bulgaria into the Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Thrace in the period of June-August 1895. Its aim was to provoke a general uprising in the are ...

. Later he joined the Bulgarian-organized

Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO; ; ), was a secret revolutionary society founded in the Ottoman territories in Europe, that operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Founded in 1893 in Salonica, it initia ...

(IMRO) and fought in the

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region. In 1899/1900 he personally sought the Serbian consuls for the establishment of a Serbian revolutionary organization and Serbian armed bands. In 1904, he left IMRO and joined the

Serbian Chetnik Organization The Serbian Revolutionary Organization () or Serbian Chetnik Organization (Српска четничка организација / Srpska četnička organizacija) was a paramilitary revolutionary organization with the aim of liberation of Old Se ...

and established one of the first Serbian bands. He participated in the battle against

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at the village of Orešje (April 1905) when the Serbian bands won the battle at ''Oreškim livadama'' against the IMRO. Also, he participated in the battle at ''Kurtov kamen'' (1907). After the

Young Turk Revolution The Young Turk Revolution (July 1908; ) was a constitutionalist revolution in the Ottoman Empire. Revolutionaries belonging to the Internal Committee of Union and Progress, an organization of the Young Turks movement, forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II ...

(1908), he left his weapon until further Young Turk pressing, reactivating his band in 1910.Дебърски глас, година 2, брой 6, 10 май 1910, стр. 4.

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Chetniks during the Hurriyet (1908).jpg, Chetniks during the Hurriyet (1908). Rujanović standing in the centre.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rujanovic, Trenko 1870s births 20th-century deaths 20th-century Serbian people Serbian rebels Serbian military leaders People from Makedonski Brod Municipality Serbs of North Macedonia People from the Ottoman Empire

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