Petar Kacarević

Petar Kacarević
Petar Kacarević in 1906
Birth namePetar Kacarević
Nickname(s)
  • Pera[1] (diminutive)
  • Čiča ("Uncle")
BornMaleš near Berovo, Kosovo Vilayet (now R. Macedonia)
Died1906
Maleš
Allegiance
  • Serbian Chetnik Organization (1904–06)
Years of service1904–06
Rank
  • vojvoda
UnitMaleševo

Petar Kacarević (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Кацаревић; fl. 1905–06), nicknamed Pera (Пера) and Čiča (чича, "uncle"), was a vojvoda (commander) of the Serbian Chetnik Organization active in the Maleševo region.

Kacarević hailed from Maleš on the Krivi Bor near Berovo.[2] The Kacarević family adhered to the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Veljko Kacarević, an Orthodox priest from Berovo, was a Serbian teacher in the region in the 19th century,[3] and manager of the Serbian schools in the region (fl. 1902).[4] Ilija Kacarević, an alumnus of the Prizren Seminary, was a priest and the deputy of Berovo.[5]

His band fought Bulgarians at Maleš on the 10th, 16th, 20 and 21 November 1905, without casualties.[6] His band of 12 fighters fought with 186 Ottoman soldiers on the hill of Krivo Brdo near Berovo on 12 May 1906, with 10 casualties; the band had been betrayed by Bulgarian Exarchists in Berovo.[1] He died while fighting on the Maleš, and with him the other nine fell: Jakov Đura Gabaj of Stara Pazova; Gligorije Đorđević of Ratevo; Đura Ivanišević of Montenegro; Đorđe Filipović-Brka of Prizren; Vojislav Vujović; Todor Božidarac of Niš; Milorad Mijailović; Milić Đukić; Mijailo Petrović of Šabac.

References

  1. ^ a b Đurić & Mijović 1993, p. 46.
  2. ^ Ivanić 1910, p. 522.
  3. ^ Jeremija M. Pavlović (1929). Maleševo i Maleševci: etnološka ispitivanja. Štamparija "Sv. Sava", M. Saldekovića. p. 390.
  4. ^ Vladimir Ćorović (1933). Diplomatska prepiska Kraljevine Srbije: Knjiga prva (1. januar 1902.-1. juna 1903.). Drž. štamparija Kraljevine Jugoslavije. p. 307.
  5. ^ Споменица педесетогодишњице Призренске Богословско-Учитељске Школе, 1871-1921. Модерна Штампарија Вој. Ненадића. 1924. p. 205.
  6. ^ Dedijer, Anić & Samardžić 2006, p. 533.

Sources

  • Blažarić, Pavle (2006). Božica Mladenović (ed.). Memoari (in Serbian). Institut za srpsku kulturu. ISBN 9788682797500.
  • Dedijer, Vladimir; Anić, Života; Samardžić, Radovan (2006). Dokumenti o spoljnoj politici Kraljevine Srbije: sv. 2 15. SANU, Odeljenje istorijskih nauka. ISBN 9788670254169.
  • Đurić, Veljko Đ.; Mijović, Miličko (1993). Ilustrovana istorija četničkog pokreta (in Serbian). Narodna knj.
  • Ivanić, Ivan (1910). Maćedonija i maćedondži. Vol. 2. Štampa Savića i Komp.
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With the outbreak of the First Balkan War (1912), the organization was put under the supervision of the Serbian Army (see Chetniks in the Balkan Wars)