Božidar Janković ( sr-Cyrl, Божидар Јанковић; 7 December 1849 – 7 July 1920) was a Serbian army

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commander of the Serbian Third Army during the

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between the

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and the

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. In 1901 he served as Minister of the Army and Navy in the

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Biography

He graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff School. He became State Secretary of Military Matters of Serbia in 1902. As President of the

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, he participated in the Chetnik fighting for Macedonia. In

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he was the Chief of Staff of the Montenegrin Supreme Command until June 1915 and a delegate of the Serbian Supreme Command at the Montenegrin Supreme Command. Janković died on 7 July 1920 in the town of

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. The town of Elez Han in

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was named 'Đeneral Janković' after him. His son Milojko B. Jankovic (1884 - 1973) was the army general in the army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was awarded Order of the White Eagle and a number of other decorations.

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1849 births 1920 deaths Military personnel from Belgrade Serbian soldiers People of the Serbo-Bulgarian War Serbian people of World War I Field marshals Defence ministers of Serbia {{Serbia-bio-stub

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