Vanđel Dimitrijević Skopljanče (1875–1915) was a participants in the
struggle for Macedonia
The Macedonian Struggle was a series of social, political, cultural and military conflicts that were mainly fought between Greek and Bulgarian subjects who lived in Ottoman Macedonia between 1893 and 1912. From 1904 to 1908 the conflict was p ...
during the early 20th century.
Biography
He was born in Skopje in 1875. Initially he was a
comitadji
Komitadji, Comitadji, or Komita (plural: Komitadjis, Comitadjis, or Komitas) ( Bulgarian, Macedonian and , , , , pl. , , ) was a collective name for members of various rebel bands ( chetas) operating in the Balkans during the final period of the ...
of the
pro-Bulgarian
Bulgarians (, ) are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and its neighbouring region, who share a common Bulgarian ancestry, culture, history and language. They form the majority of the population in Bulgaria, while in No ...
IMRO
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 init ...
and in 1903 participated in the
Ilinden Uprising Ilinden ( Bulgarian/ Macedonian: Илинден) or Ilindan ( Serbian Cyrillic: Илиндан), meaning " Saint Elijah's Day", may refer to:
Events
* Republic Day (North Macedonia)
Republic Day () or Ilinden () is a national holiday in North ...
. After the founding of the Serbian Chetnik organization in 1903, he joined as Vojvoda and organized a company (ćeta). He was active in
Kumanovo
Kumanovo ( ; , sq-definite, Kumanova; also known by other #Etymology, alternative names) is the second-largest city in North Macedonia after the capital Skopje and the seat of Kumanovo Municipality, the List of municipalities in the Republic ...
and
Preševo
Preševo ( sr-Cyrl, Прешево, ; , ) is a town and municipality located in the Pčinja District of southern Serbia. As of the 2022 census, the municipality has a population of 33,449 inhabitants. It is the southernmost town in Central Serbia a ...
region from 1903 to 1905. After 1905, he was withdrawn from the field along with six others (
Rista Starački
Rista Stevanović ( sr-cyr, Риста Стевановић, 1870–1940), known by his ''nom de guerre'', the demonym Starački (Риста Старачки), was a Serbian Chetnik commander. He was among the first Chetniks on the Kozjak toget ...
,
Jovan Dovezenski,
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 s ...
and Jovan Pešić) and stripped of his rank for insubordination by 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 ...
. 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 was killed by the invading Bulgarian troops in
Bitola
Bitola (; ) is a city in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba, Nidže, and Kajmakčalan mountain ranges, north of the Medžitlija-Níki border crossing ...
in late 1915, defending the
Serbian Army's retreat over the Albanian mountains.
See also
*
List of Chetnik voivodes
This is a list of Chetnik voivodes. is a Slavic as well as Romanian title that originally denoted the principal commander of a military force. It derives from the word , which in early Slavic meant the , i.e. the military commander of an area, b ...
References
* P. D. S. Jerinić, Vojvode iz četničke akcije u Staroj Srbiji i Maćedoniji 1903–1912, Dobrovoljački glasnik, br. 32, Beograd 2008, 42-43.
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Chetniks
1875 births
1915 deaths