Đuka Galović (8 April 1924, in

Drenovci Drenovci (, , , sr-Cyrl, Дреновци) is a village and municipality in the Vukovar-Syrmia County in Croatia. The municipality is part of Slavonia. Population According to the 2011 census, there are 5,174 inhabitants, in the following s ...

– 11 July 2015) was a Croatian folk musician and songwriter. He is best known for dialect

tambur The is a fretted string instrument of Turkey and the former lands of the Ottoman Empire. There are two variants, one of which is played with a plectrum (''mızraplı tambur'') and the other with a bow ('' yaylı tambur''). The player is call ...

songs such as ''Slavonci smo i Hrvati pravi'', ''Oko Studve i bistrog Bosuta'' and ''Odavno smo graničari stari'' ("Border guards of old"). The latter deals with the defense of Croatia from the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

. The song speaks of border guards of old, long keeping the border on the river Sava:Mala hrvatska pjesmarica Zvonimir Čičić - 1976 "3.2 Odavno smo graničari Odavno smo graničari stari. Čuvali smo granicu na Savi, na Savi.* Čuvali ju sa starih čardaka. Branili ju hrabro od Turaka, hrabro od Turaka. I djedovi svoju krv su lili, da čuvaju naš zavičaj ..."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Galovic, Duka Croatian songwriters Croatian male songwriters 1924 births 2015 deaths People from Županja