Velimir Karić (

Kragujevac Kragujevac ( sr-Cyrl, Крагујевац, ) is the fourth largest city in Serbia and the administrative centre of the Šumadija District. It is the historical centre of the geographical region of Šumadija in central Serbia, and is situated on ...

, Principality of Serbia, 3 October 1859 -

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, 1946) was a Serbian revolutionary, a People's Radical Party representative in the parliament of the

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, a

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, a volunteer in the liberation wars of 1876-1878 against the

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, a member of the founding group of the

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Vranje Vranje ( sr-Cyrl, Врање, ) is a city in Southern Serbia and the administrative center of the Pčinja District. The municipality of Vranje has a population of 83,524 and its urban area has 60,485 inhabitants. Vranje is the economical, polit ...

Biography

Velimir Karić was born in Kragujevac in 1859 in a well-to-do clerical family. He finished high school in

Šabac Šabac (Serbian Cyrillic: Шабац, ) is a city and the administrative centre of the Mačva District in western Serbia. The traditional centre of the fertile Mačva region, Šabac is located on the right banks of the river Sava. , the city p ...

, and the Faculty of Pharmacy in

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. During the Serbian-Turkish Wars (1876-1878), he fought as a volunteer on the

Drina River The Drina ( sr-Cyrl, Дрина, ) is a long Balkans river, which forms a large portion of the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. It is the longest tributary of the Sava River and the longest karst river in the Dinaric Alps whic ...

. Like his brother Vladimir, Velimir was one of the first members of the Radical Party, and with radicals, he participated in protests, including one in 1882 against Victorien Sardou's ''Rabagas'' performance at the

National Theatre in Belgrade The National Theatre ( sr-cyr, Народно позориште, Narodno pozorište) is a theatre located in Belgrade, Serbia. Founded in the later half of the 19th century, it is located on the Republic Square, at the corner of Vasina and Fra ...

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/ref> After the protest in Belgrade he went to Vranje where he opened the first pharmacy in the newly-formed municipal regions in 1883. In 1903 Velimir participated in the creation of the Executive Committee of the

in Vranje and became a member of the same committee. He took an active part in the Chetnik movement until 1906 when he left Vranje for Belgrade where he opened another pharmacy. He was elected ten times as deputy of the People's Radical Party for Vranje and was a member of its board of directors until 1940. He is one of the earliest members of the

Narodna Odbrana Narodna Odbrana ( sr-cyr, Народна одбрана, literally, "The People's Defence" or "National Defence") was a Serbian nationalist organization established on October 8, 1908 as a reaction to the Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia and ...

, and also held the post of its president during the Great War.Време, 17. 9. 1940.

References

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