Vanđel Dimitrijević Skopljanče (

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, 1875–1915) was a Serbian Chetnik Vojovode (Duke) in Old Serbia from the time of the struggle for Macedonia in the early 20th century.

Biography

He was born in Skopje in 1875. He was a VMRO comita before 1903 and participated in the Ilinden Uprising. After the founding of the Serbian Chetnik organization in 1903, he joined as Vojvoda and organized a company (ćeta). He was active in

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and

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region from 1903 to 1905. After 1905, he was withdrawn from the field along with six others ( Rista Starački,

Jovan Dovezenski Jovan Stanojković ( sr-cyr, Јован Станојковић, 8 April 1873 – 2 May 1935), known by his ''nom de guerre'', the demonym ''Dovezenski'' (Довезенски), was a Serbian Chetnik commander (''vojvoda''), and participant in the ...

, Vladimir Kovačević,

Trenko Rujanović Trenko Rujanović ( sr-cyr, Тренко Рујановић; born c. 1870), known as Vojvoda Trenko (Војвода Тренко), was a Macedonian Serb Chetnik and Bulgarian apostate. Life Rujanović was born in the village of Krapa, in the Po ...

Emilio Milutinović Emilio Milutinović (Serbian: Емилио Милутиновић; 1870 – after 1919) was a Chetnik voivode in Old Serbia during the struggle for Macedonia. As a subject of Austria-Hungary at the turn of the twentieth century, he was called to ...

and Jovan Pešić) and stripped of his rank for insubordination by the

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. In the First Balkan War, he was again deployed in Chetnik detachments, participating in all 1912 battles led by Vojvoda Vuk, and the Volunteer Detachment in the Second Balkan War of 1913. In the First World War, he fought in Chetnik detachments from the beginning of the conflict (1914). He died at

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in late 1915, defending the Serbian Army's retreat over the Albanian mountains.

References

* P. D. S. Jerinić, Vojvode iz četničke akcije u Staroj Srbiji i Maćedoniji 1903–1912, Dobrovoljački glasnik, br. 32, Beograd 2008, 42-43. {{DEFAULTSORT:Skopljance, Vandel Chetniks 1875 births 1915 deaths