Tasa Konević Apostolović (; d. 1916) was an Orthodox priest and Macedonian Serb Chetnik from Krapa in

Poreče Poreče, Porečie or Porečje or Poreč (), is a region in North Macedonia which includes the Makedonski Brod Municipality, and the western part of the Prilep Municipality Prilep ( ) is a municipality in the south of North Macedonia. ''Prilep ...

. He was the son of a local Serb chief, Kone Apostolović, who was the leader of the Prilep Serbs at the end of the 19th century, and one of the richest in the village. Priest Tasa was the protector of Serbdom in Poreče and led the local guerrilla organization. He participated in the

Ilinden Uprising Ilinden ( Bulgarian/ Macedonian: Илинден) or Ilindan ( Serbian Cyrillic: Илиндан), meaning " Saint Elijah's Day", may refer to: Events * Republic Day (North Macedonia) Republic Day () or Ilinden () is a national holiday in North ...

(July–August 1903), orchestrated by the Bulgarian-organized

Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO; ; ), was a secret revolutionary society founded in the Ottoman territories in Europe, that operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Founded in 1893 in Salonica, it initia ...

(IMRO), with a Serb band. After the Kokošinje slaughters (July–October 1904) and IMRO and exarchists attack on Macedonian Serbs, he organized the village self-defense units and joined

Gligor Sokolović Gligor Sokolović ( sr-cyr, Глигор Соколовић; 17 or 5 January 1870 or 1872 – 30 July 1910]) was one of the supreme commanders (''Great Voivode'') of the Serbian Chetnik Organization, Serbian Chetnik Movement, that fought the Ot ...

and his neighbour

Trenko Rujanović Trenko Rujanović ( sr-cyr, Тренко Рујановић; born c. 1870), known as Vojvoda Trenko (Војвода Тренко), was a Macedonian Serb Chetnik and Bulgarian apostate. Life Rujanović was born in the village of Krapa, in the Po ...

, of 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 ...

. Tasa defended and administrated the village throughout the

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 p ...

. An important event was the attack on Krapa by combined bands of the IMRO, which ended in the

Battle of Šuplji Kamen The Battle of Šuplji Kamen (, sr-Cyrl, Борба на Шупљем Камену), fought between the Serbian Chetnik Organization and the Ottoman army under Hamdi Pasha, took place on 27 May 1904. Prelude On 25 April, two bands ('' četa'') o ...

won by the Serbian Chetniks. Tasa was murdered in 1916 when the occupying Bulgarian Army executed hundreds of Serb leaders from

.Trbić 1996, pp. 82–92

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