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Battle Of Čelopek
The Battle of Čelopek (, sr-Cyrl, Борба на Челопеку) was fought at the Čelopek, Staro Nagoričane, Čelopek plateau, near Kozjak (Kumanovo), Kozjak, between the Serbian Chetnik Organization and Ottoman officers accompanied by Ottoman Albanian bashi-bozuks, on 16 April 1905. Background After the fights in Tabanovce, Savatije Milošević, Lazar Kujundžić and Aksentije Bacetović-Baceta left their offices as organizers of the action, wanting to feel the Chetnik lifestyle "from within" as voivodes. Baceta was to replace the then Chief of Upper Staff, Ilija Jovanović-Pčinjski, Ilija Jovanović. Baceta and Savatije Milošević, by mid-April, had moved 107 fighters across the border. Fight At dawn on Holy Saturday (), the two large bands (Cheta (armed group), Cheta) -- Belgrade and Kragujevac -- arrived at the village of Dubočica. There, they were awaited by the bands of Ilija Jovanović, Lazar Kujundžić, Čiča-Pavle Mladenović and Ljubomir Jezdić. The Kragu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macedonian Struggle
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 part of a wider guerrilla war in which revolutionary organizations of Greeks, Bulgarians and Serbs all fought over Macedonia and its Christian population. Particularly over the national affiliation of the Slavic population which was forced to declare themselves for either of the sides. Gradually the Greek and Bulgarian bands gained the upper hand. Though the conflict largely ceased by the Young Turk Revolution, it continued as a low intensity insurgency until the Balkan Wars. Background Initially the conflict was waged through educational and religious means, with a fierce rivalry developing between supporters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (Greek-speaking or Slavic/Romance-speaking people who generally identified as Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Saturday
Holy Saturday (), also known as Great and Holy Saturday, Low Saturday, the Great Sabbath, Hallelujah Saturday, Saturday of the Glory, Easter Eve, Joyous Saturday, the Saturday of Light, Good Saturday, or Black Saturday, among other names, is the final day of Holy Week, between Good Friday and Easter, Easter Sunday, and when Christians prepare for the Christian feast of Easter. The day commemorates the Harrowing of Hell while Jesus, Jesus Christ's body lay in the Holy Sepulchre, tomb. Christians of the Catholic, Lutheran, and Anglican denominations begin the celebration of the Easter Vigil service on Holy Saturday, which provides a transition to the season of Eastertide; in the Moravian Church, Moravian Christian tradition, graves are decorated with flowers during the day of Holy Saturday and the celebration of the sunrise service starts before dawn on Easter Sunday. Congregations of the Reformed Christianity, Reformed and Methodist denominations may hold either the Easter Vigil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radul Kosovac
Radul or Radule () is a Slavic given name, derived from the word ''rad'', meaning "work, care ". It is the base of the Serbian surnames of Radulović, Radulić, Raduljica, and the Russian and Bulgarian Radulov. Several toponyms are derived from the name, such as Radule in Poland, Radul in Ukraine, Radulovtsi in Bulgaria, etc. It may refer to: *Radul (2010- ) Serbian musician * Radul Milkov (1883–1962), Bulgarian pioneer of aviation *Radul Petrović, brother of Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje *Radul, fresco master who painted the Serbian Orthodox monasteries of Ostrog and Praskvica * Radul the Grammarian *Radule Božović, a Serbian Orthodox priest executed in 1945 for supporting the Chetnik movement *Vladimir Radusinović, nicknamed Radule, singer and guitarist * Nikola Radulović (footballer), nicknamed Radule *Radule, a character in Serbian epic poetry *Vojvoda Radule, an 18th-century Montenegrin warrior *Radule Radulović, Bosnian footballer * Radule Jevrić * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vojislav Tankosić
Vojislav Tankosić ( sr-cyr, Војислав Танкосић, 20 September 1880 – 2 November 1915) was a Serbian military officer, ''vojvoda'' of the Serbian Chetnik Organization, major of the Serbian Army, and member of the Black Hand (Serbia), Black Hand, who participated in the May Coup (Serbia), May Coup and was accused of involvement in the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Overview Tankosić was born in Ruklada, in the Tamnava region near Valjevo. His family came from Bosanska Krajina, Bosnian Krajina. He graduated from the Gymnasium (school), gymnasium and from the prestigious Military Academy (Serbia), Military Academy. Tankosić came to the attention of the Serbian public as a young officer when he set about assaulting an English reporter who had allegedly defamed Serbia and who found himself in transit in Belgrade; the Serbian police rescued the young Winston Churchill and sent him on his way. Tankosić's demonstrated high national consciousness gained hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogdan Jugović Hajnc
Bogdan Jugović Hajnc (1882 in Valjevo – 30 May 1905 in Petraljica, near Kumanovo) was a commissioned officer in the Serbian Army and a Chetnik commander known as Vojvoda Bogdan. Bogdan Jugović Hajnc was a son of a Polish medical officer who emigrated to Serbia. Jugović grew up to be a Serbian patriot. He was an orphan when he completed the gymnasium and enrolled in the prestigious Military Academy in Belgrade on 1 September 1899. Two years later, he was promoted to the rank of artillery lieutenant. In 1905, he sold all his possessions and gave all the money to the Serbian Chetnik Organization, excluding a 3,000 dinar legacy that he left to a poor neighbor, before going to war. He participated in the successful Fight on Čelopek against the Ottoman army. He was brave and popular, and the volunteers under his command respected him. On 30 May 1905 while in the cheta command led by Branivoje Jovanović, also known as Vojvoda Brane, Bogdan Jugović Hajnc was in the village of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janićije Mićić
Janićije Mićić (Rožanstvo, Serbia, 13 August 1874 – Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 17 April 1949) was a highly decorated Serbian career soldier, a participant of the Balkan Wars and the Great War. He was a bearer of two Order of Karađorđe's Star with Swords. Biography He was born on August 13, 1874, in Rožanstvo, municipality of Čajetina, in the family of caterers Paun and Jelica Mićić. He attended elementary school in Prokuplje and high school in Belgrade and Nis. He completed the Military Academy (Serbia) and the Serbian infantry NCO in 1892 in Belgrade and immediately got the rank of sergeant. As an active officer in the period from February 1900 to July 1906, in the rank of the guide and adjutant, he was serving in the XII regiment of Karađorđe, then in the XIX regiment headquarters in Kragujevac and the IX of the Braničevska county district command. At that time he participated in Chetnik actions in Kumanovo and Kriva Palanka. He was assigned to the Mountain Head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dušan Putniković
Dušan ( sr-Cyrl, Душан) is a Slavic given name primarily used in the former Yugoslavia and the former Czechoslovakia. The name is derived from the Slavic noun ''duša'' "soul". Occurrence In Serbia, it was the 29th most popular name for males, as of 2010. People *Stefan Uroš IV Dušan, Emperor of the Serbian Empire *Dušan Bajević (born 1948), Bosnian former footballer and current football manager *Dušan Bařica (born 1975), Czech ice hockey player *Dušan Basta (born 1984), Serbian footballer * Dušan Bavdek (born 1971), Slovenian composer *Dušan Bogdanović (born 1955), Serbian-born American composer and classical guitarist * Dusan Djuric (born 1984), Swedish international footballer of Serbian descent *Dušan Domović Bulut (born 1985), Serbian 3x3 basketball player *Dušan Džamonja (1928–2009), Croatian sculptor *Dušan Fitzel (born 1963), Slovak footballer and football manager *Dušan Galis (born 1949), Slovak footballer and football manager * Dušan Keketi ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pera Todorović
Pera may refer to: Places * Pera (Beyoğlu), a district in Istanbul formerly called Pera, now called Beyoğlu ** Galata, a neighbourhood of Beyoğlu, often referred to as Pera in the past * Pêra (Caparica), a Portuguese locality in the district of Setúbal * Pera (San Giovanni di Fassa), an Italian hamlet in the municipality of San Giovanni di Fassa, in Trentino * Pêra (Silves), a Portuguese parish in the district of Faro in the Algarve * Pera Orinis, a village in Cyprus Other uses * Pera (surname) * The ''Pera'', a ship of the Dutch East India Company * Peda or Pera, a dessert of the Indian subcontinent * ''Pera'' (plant), a plant genus in the family Peraceae * Public Employees Retirement Association, the name of several public employee pension plans in the United States * Peripheral ERA, a baseball statistic * Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture * ''perA Pera may refer to: Places * Pera (Beyoğlu), a district in Istanbul formerly called Pera, now called Beyoğlu ** Gala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dušan Jezdić
Dušan Jezdić or Dushan Yezdich (Belgrade, Serbia, 22 December 1881 – Ionian Sea, near the island of Vido, Greece, 1917) was a Serbian Chetnik voivode who participated in the struggle for Old Serbia and Macedonia (1903–1912), the Balkan Wars and the First World War. Biography Jezdić was born in Belgrade and educated at the prestigious Serbian Military Academy. He became a voivode after joining the Serbian Chetnik Organization in 1903. Until 1917 he participated in the wars as a lieutenant colonel. He was buried at sea with hundreds of others who survived the Serbian army's retreat through Albania only to fall ill from the excruciating experience and die of hunger or disease after having reached Corfu. After the retreat of the Serbian Army through Albania at the end of 1915, the French fleet transported around 150,000 Serbs to the island of Corfu during January and February 1915. Jezdić was among the soldiers, exhausted by the strenuous march through mountainous Montenegro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vojin Popović
Vojin Popović, known as Vojvoda Vuk (; 9 December 1881 – 29 November 1916) was a Serbian ''voivode'' (military commander), who fought for the Macedonian Serb Chetniks (i.e. Komitadji, komiti) in the Struggle for Macedonia, and then the Serbian national army in the Balkan Wars and World War I. Life Vojin was born on 9 December 1881 at Sjenica, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (present-day southwestern Serbia). Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Kragujevac, where Vojin attended school. He chose a career in the military. On 3 November 1901, he became ''second lieutenant''. He was among the first ''cheta'' (bands, 'čete') heading for ''Old Serbia'', i.e. Macedonia (region), Makedonia (1905). He was killed after being shot through the heart on top of the Staravinski vis near Gruništa, Novaci Municipality in skirmishes after the Battle of Kaymakchalan on 29 November 1916 during the height of World War I. There is a Monument to Vojvoda Vuk in Belgrade. Legacy * There i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
