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Petar Koćura
Petar Krstić ( sr-cyr, Петар Крстић), known as Petar Koćura (Петар Коћура) was a member of the Serbian Chetnik Organization. He belonged to the Deda-Stojkovci family in Koćura near Vranje. During the office of Alimpije Marjanović as Chief of the Mountainous Headquarters (1908), the notable regional commanders (''vojvode'') were Petar Krstić-Koćura, Todor Krstić-Algunjski, Vasilije Trbić, Petko Nagorički, 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 (Serbi ..., Vojin Popović and others. See also * List of Chetnik voivodes References Sources * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kocura, Petar Chetniks of the Macedonian Struggle 20th-century Serbian people People from Vranje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Serbia (Kosovo and Macedonia (region), Macedonia) from the Ottoman Empire (in the vilayets of Kosovo Vilayet, Kosovo, Manastir Vilayet, Manastir and Salonika Vilayet, Salonika). Its Central Committee (Централни одбор / Centralni odbor) was established in 1902, while the Serbian Committee (Српски комитет / Srpski komitet) was established in September 1903 in Belgrade, by the combined Central Boards of Belgrade, Vranje, Skopje and Bitola. Its armed wing was activated in 1904. Among the architects were members of the Saint Sava society, Army Staff (Kingdom of Serbia), Army Staff and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Kingdom of Serbia), Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It operated during the Macedonian Struggle, Struggle for Mac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koćura
Koćura is a village in the municipality of Vranje, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 234 people.Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i Stanova 2002. Knjiga 1: Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost po naseljima. Republika Srbija, Republički zavod za statistiku Beograd 2003. Chetnik Petar Koćura Petar Krstić ( sr-cyr, Петар Крстић), known as Petar Koćura (Петар Коћура) was a member of the Serbian Chetnik Organization. He belonged to the Deda-Stojkovci family in Koćura near Vranje. During the office of Alimpije M ... was born in the village. References Populated places in Pčinja District {{VranjeRS-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vranje
Vranje ( sr-Cyrl, Врање, ) is a city in Southern Serbia and the administrative center of the Pčinja District. According to the 2022 census, the city itself has a population of 55,214 while the city administrative area has 74,381 inhabitants. Vranje is the economical, political and cultural centre of the Pčinja District in Southern Serbia. It was the first city from the Balkans to be declared UNESCO city of Music in 2019. It is located on the Pan-European Corridor X, close to the borders with North Macedonia, Kosovo and Bulgaria. The Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Vranje is seated in the city, as is the 4th Land Force Brigade of the Serbian Army. Etymology The toponym Vranje is first attested in an 11th-century Byzantine text. The town's name is believed to be derived from ''vran'', a word of Slavic origin meaning swarthy or dark, or the archaic Slavic given name Vran, which itself is derived from the same word. History The Romans conquered the region in the 2nd or 1s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alimpije Marjanovic
Alimpije Marjanović ( Donja Šatornja, 24 December 1874 – Belgrade, 15 March 1940) was a Serbian revolutionary and commander who fought in the struggle for Macedonia, the Balkan Wars and the Great War. His military reputation is equal to Vojin Popović and Vojislav Tankosić as leading Chetniks in the Balkan Wars and World War I. Early life He was born in Donja Šatornja. After his primary education, the family moved to Belgrade where Marjanović finished high school and entered the Military Academy. He rounded out his education in post-graduate studies in France's Saint Cyr Military Academy. Career He spent 23 years in the army with 27 different services. He retired as a colonel. In 1908, Major Marjanović served as the head of the eastern Povardarie's mountain headquarters as commander of all the Serbian bands in the vicinity of Preševo, Kumanovo, Kriva Palanka and Kratovo. He led the Serbian detachments with voivodes Spasa Garda, Živko Gvozdić, Ditko Ale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todor Krstić-Algunjski
Todor Krstić ( sr-cyr, Тодор Крстић; 1904–34), known by the nickname Toša (Тоша) and ''nom de guerre'' Algunjski (Алгуњски), was a Serbian Chetnik commander in Old Serbia and Macedonia during the Macedonian Struggle. In Bulgaria he is considered a Bulgarian renegade who switched sides, i.e. (sic) '' Serboman''. Life Krstić was born in the village of Algunja in the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia). Algunja was surrounded by Albanian-inhabited villages of Čukarka, Suševo and Mutilovo; Krstić had even before joining the organized Chetnik action, jumped into the region from Vranje, assassinating known ''zulumćari'' (persecutors of Christians). On April 18, 1902, together with Krastyo Kovachev, he joined the Bulgarian cheta of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee with a commander Sotir Atanasov, which operated in Kriva Palanka area. With this company he moved later to the Bulgarian town of Kyustend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasilije Trbić
Vasilije Trbić ( sr-Cyrl, Василије Трбић; 1881 – 1962) was a Serbian Chetnik commander in Macedonia who became a politician in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, first representing the People's Radical Party (NRS) in the country's National Assembly and later the Yugoslav National Party (JNP). Born in the village of Bijelo Brdo, near Dalj in Austria-Hungary, Trbić was a monk in his youth. He fled Mount Athos after being accused of murdering several fellow monks and joined the nationalist band of Jovan Drimkolski in 1904–05, quickly becoming the unit's commander. Trbić fought alongside Serbian forces during the Balkan Wars and during World War I, earning the Order of the Star of Karađorđe for his efforts. Acting alongside other former Chetnik commanders, he participated in establishing organizations whose purpose was to raise monuments to Serbian military successes from 1912–18 and to promote cultural development in Macedonia in the interwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petko Nagorički
Petko is a South Slavic (Петко) masculine given name and East Slavic (Петько) surname. It may refer to: Given name * Petko Petkov (other) * Petko Slaveykov (1827–1895), 19th-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist * Petko Staynov (1896–1977), Bulgarian composer and pianist * Petko Voyvoda (1844–1900), 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary *Petko Yankov Petko Yankov (; born 6 October 1977) is a retired Bulgarian sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres. He competed at the 1999 World Indoor Championships, the 1999 World Championships and the 2000 Olympic Games (both 100 and 200 metres). His ... (born 1977), retired Bulgarian sprinter * Petko Karavelov (1843–1903), leading Bulgarian liberal politician * Petko Ilić (1886–1912), Serbian Chetnik * Petko Hristov (born 1999), Bulgarian football player Surname * Svetlana Petko (born 1970), professional Russian football goalkeeper * Serhiy Petko (born 1994), professional Ukrainian ... [...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] |
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] |
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, but it usually had a greater meaning. Among the first modern-day voivodes was Kole Rašić, a late 19th-century Serb revolutionary and guerrilla fighter, who led a cheta of 300 men between Niš and Leskovac in Ottoman areas during the Serbo-Turkish War (1876–1878). The others were Rista Cvetković-Božinče, Čerkez Ilija, Čakr-paša, and Spiro Crne. Jovan Hadži-Vasiljević, who knew Spiro Crne personally, wrote and published his biography, ''Spiro Crne Golemdžiojski'', in 1933. Commanders of Old Serbia and Macedonia (1903–1912), Balkan Wars * Jovan Atanacković * Mihailo Ristić (diplomat) * Svetislav Simić * Denko Krstić * Dimitrije Dimitrijević (Chetnik) * Nikola Omoranski * Rista Ognjanović * Cene Marković ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chetniks Of The Macedonian Struggle
The Chetniks,, ; formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland; and informally colloquially the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement and guerrilla force in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia. Although it was not a homogeneous movement, it was led by Draža Mihailović. While it was anti-Axis in its long-term goals and engaged in marginal resistance activities for limited periods, it also engaged in tactical or selective collaboration with Axis forces for almost all of the war. The Chetnik movement adopted a policy of collaboration with regard to the Axis, and engaged in cooperation to one degree or another by both establishing a ''modus vivendi'' and operating as "legalised" auxiliary forces under Axis control. Over a period of time, and in different parts of the country, the movement was progressively drawn into collaboration agreements: first with the puppet Government of National Salvation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
