Vladimir Kovačević (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Ковачевић; 1871-1905) was a Serbian

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during the fight to end

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control of

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and Macedonia. Kovačević was involved in the

Fight in Tabanovce The Battle of Tabanovce ( sr, Borba na Tabanovcu, italics=yes, sr-Cyrl, Борба на Табановцу) between the Serbian Chetnik Organization, a Serbian rebel faction, and an Ottoman garrison from Kumanovo, took place on 27 March 1905. Bat ...

against an enemy force that outnumbered his significantly. A Serbian '' Cheta'' in Poreč, with a strength of 27 men, descended at dawn of 27 March 1905 in the village of

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. The squad carried a load of 101 rifles and 30,000 rounds of ammunition. The leader was Vladimir Kovačević. At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Kovačević's group was ambushed by Turkish troops. From the start of the conflict lieutenant Dragomir Protić was mortally wounded, trying to help another fighter ( Dragomir Vasiljević) escape from the encirclement. Vladimir Kovačević fought bravely throughout the skirmish with the Ottoman Turks. He showed his heroism by throwing several hand grenades at the Turks and their Albanian auxiliaries forcing them to withdraw from the area before nightfall. Turks always avoided entanglements with Serbian Chetas at night. The next day when fighting resumed there but a few Serbs holding their positions until all were decimated, including Vladimir Kovačević. He is commemorated in the Government calendar of the Kingdom of Serbia (''Drzavni kalendar Kraljevine Srbije'') in 1911. Only one member of the ''cheta'' --

Stojan Koruba Stojan Simonović ( sr-cyr, Стојан Симоновић, 1872–1937), known by his ''nom de guerre'' Koruba (Коруба), was a Serbian Chetnik. Early life Simonović was born into a poor family in Šaprance, at the time part of the Ottom ...

—managed to extricate himself from the fighting and survive.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kovačević, Vladimir 1871 births 1905 deaths Date of birth missing Place of birth missing Chetniks Serbian military leaders Serbian revolutionaries Revolutionaries from the Ottoman Empire

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