Đorđe Ristić ( sr-cyr, Ђорђе Ристић; 6 August 1881 — 1911), known as Đorđe Skopljanče (Ђорђе Скопљанче), was a
Serbian Chetnik commander who fought in
Old Serbia
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The term does ...
and
Macedonia
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.
Life
Ristić was born in
İpek
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,
Kosovo Vilayet,
Ottoman Empire
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(now
Kosovo
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) into a
Serb
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family. He finished high school in
Skoplje
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, hence his nickname ''Skopljanče'' (a demonym). He then enrolled in the non-commissioned officer school in Belgrade in 1904, and with the rank of
sergeant
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(''narednik'') he joined the
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 Se ...
and immediately crossed the Serbian-Ottoman border. Due to his bravery, he gained the title of ''vojvoda'' (duke) the same year. He participated in the battles on Guglin, Petralica and
Čelopek in that year. His designated area was the
Kumanovo
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region where he constantly clashed with Bulgarian
vojvode Krsto Konjushki. He died in 1911 as a result of the extreme conditions he faced during guerilla fighting in the open outdoors under bad weather. He was buried in
Niš
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, where 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 ...
erected a monument in his honour, in 1913.
See also
*
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, b ...
Sources
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*P. Pešić, Četnički pokret u Kraljevini Srbiji 1903-1918, Krgujevac 2007, 385
*P. D. S., Jerinić, Vojvode iz četničke akcije u Staroj Srbiji i Maćedoniji 1903-1912, Dobrovoljački glasnik, br. 32, Beograd 2008, 32
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1881 births
1911 deaths
20th-century Serbian people
Serbian rebels
Serbian military leaders
Kosovo Serbs
Military personnel from Peja