Dimitrije Dimitrijević ( sr-cyrl, Димитрије Димитријевић;

Gjakova Gjakova or Đakovica, ) and Đakovica ( sr-Cyrl, Ђаковица, ) is the sixth largest city of Kosovo and seat of the Gjakova Municipality and the District of Gjakova, Gjakova District. According to the 2024 census, the municipality of Gjakov ...

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, 1881 –

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, 17 December 1917) was a priest and one of the leaders of the

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in the occupied

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during

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. He grew up in an artisan family and graduated from Prizren Seminary in 1898. He moved to Serbia around 1900, where he was a priest and teacher, serving along the then Serbian-Ottoman border. He was one of the organizers of the

and a head of the of the

Chetniks 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 Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist m ...

. At the end of August 1917, in a conflict with the Bulgarian army on the

Salonica front The Macedonian front, also known as the Salonica front (after Thessaloniki), was a military theatre of World War I formed as a result of an attempt by the Allied Powers to aid Serbia, in the autumn of 1915, against the combined attack of Germa ...

, Dimitrijević was wounded and captured. The Bulgarians imprisoned him in the Niš Fortress, where he was tortured to death.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dimitrijević, Dimitrije 1881 births 1917 deaths Date of birth missing Chetniks Serbian military leaders Serbian revolutionaries Revolutionaries from the Ottoman Empire

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