Petko Ilić
- View a machine-translated version of the Serbian article.
- Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
- Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
- You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is
Content in this edit is translated from the existing Serbian Wikipedia article at [[:sr:Петко Илић]]; see its history for attribution.
- You may also add the template
{{Translated|sr|Петко Илић}}
to the talk page. - For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.
Petko Ilić | |
---|---|
![]() Petko Ilić in Bitola, during the Young Turk Revolution (1908) | |
Nickname(s) | Musa,[1] Moma Vojvoda, Vojvoda Nagorički |
Born | July, 1885[2] Staro Nagoričane, Ottoman Empire (now R. Macedonia) |
Died | March 17, 1912 (aged 25–26) |
Allegiance |
|
Years of service | 1903–08 |
Rank | Voivode (Vojvoda) |
Petko Ilić (Serbian Cyrillic: Петко Илић; July 1886 – March 17, 1912) was a Serbian Chetnik commander active in Macedonia.[3]
Life
Ilić was born in Staro Nagoričane. He became a vojvoda in 1906.[4]
Petko Ilić was born in July 1886, in Staro Nagoričane, a Serbian village that is primarily known for its Church of St. George built in 1071 and reconstructed between 1313 and 1318 by Serbian king Stefan Milutin. At the time of Petko Ilić's birth that Christian territory was still under the long occupation of the Ottoman Empire. His inheritance, from generations of Serbian ancestors, was hate of Turkish tyranny and the example of many forefathers who fought against it futilely. When he was six-years-old he saw his family members dragged from home in chains by Turkish soldiers and Bashi-bazouks, lashed and imprisoned, on a charge of treason. As a youngster of 16 in 1903, he joined what he thought was a Serbian četa (band of freedom fighters), led by Valko Mandarčev, a Bulgarian pretending to be a Serb sympathizer. In the winter of 1904 Mandarčev's cheta met the komitadji of Bobi Stojcev, an IMRO commander, near Poreč, they were disarmed and liquidated. Petko Ilić, 17 at the time, was somehow spared and sent to Bulgaria's capital Sofia to be indoctrinated.
From Bulgaria Ilić managed to escape and make his way to Vranje in the spring of 1905. There he joined the četa of Anđel Đorđević. Even that četa was ambushed when they crossed the frontier and were suddenly surrounded by Turkish troops. After fierce fighting, most of the četa members were killed with only Petko Ilić and two others left. They bravely confronted the attacking Turks by launching at them with bayonets fixed to the muzzle of their rifles in hand-to-hand combat. When it became evident that the Turks were about to overpower them, Petko decided to explode a bomb. The explosion took the lives of more than a dozen. However, Petko, who was thrown several feet away, was unconscious but not mortally wounded. The remaining Turks did not bother to bury any of the corpses, and left for their garrison. After Ilic came around, he managed to muster enough strength to find his way back to Serbian territory, though wounded.
He went on to fight many battles with the Turks and Bulgars under the command of Jovan Dovezenski, had lost several trusted lieutenants, had several more narrow escapes, including having to fight his way with his cheta through a cordon of the enemy. Petko Ilić became a commander (Vojvoda) in 1906 in Skopska Crna Gora, where he organized a communication network between two headquarters.
The Bulgarian-sponsored komitadji began terrorizing the nearby Serbian villages and along with Jovan Babunski and a number of other skilled vojvodas fought in this region: Gligor Sokolović, Trenko Rujanović, Jovan Dolgač, Vasilije Trbić, and Cene Marković. Petko and his četa cleared the right bank of the Vardar River, from Skoplje to Veles, and beyond, of Bulgarian komitadji. Subsequently, he headed numerous daring raids into Ottoman territory, fighting the Turks as well.
In July 1908, the Young Turks, along with the Turkish Third Army in Macedonia, marched on Istanbul and overthrew the Turkish sultan, Abdul Hamid. He was replaced by his weak brother, Mohammed V.
A new constitution was proclaimed. All citizens of Turkey, including the sizable Christian population in the Balkans, were promised full political and religious rights. The old feudal system was abolished. A new era was proclaimed.
Everyone in Old Serbia and Macedonia was excited about the great changes that were about to take place. The Young Turks called on everyone to end the civil war and join the new society. Believing the Young Turks, many of the Serbian cetas, the Bulgarian komitadji and the Greek ardante came out of their respective mountain fastness hoping to return to a peaceful life. The Serbian Committee for Chetnik Action came to an understanding with the new government and gave up their arms in Skopije. Petko Ilić was presented to the Turks as a leader of the Chetniks which he was not. Members of the Turkish high command were surprised to find a young man of slight built and short height with such a popular following. They were beside themselves.
In 1910 Ilić began to fight the Young Turks after they neglected to observe the promises that they had made to the European Powers to respect the Christian population in their Empire.
In 1912, a Bulgarian gunman, a member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), shot and killed Ilić in the village of Stracin. Ilić was buried in the monastery complex of the Church of St. Panteleimon (Gorno Nerezi), near the Serbian village of Lepučin in the region of northern Macedonia.
See also
Note
In 1912, Jovan Dovezenski wrote about him the following:
Since the beginning of the Chetnik organization, Petko was the first to be organized. He was only 16 years old, but that did not stop him from always being one of those who leaped and took weapons and ammunition. Still small and under-developed, he wanted to carry as much as the others. I gave him a rifle and a hundred bullets. He thought it was not enough. I did not give in. After, on the road, he would take two hundred bullets from the others for his martinka (rifle).
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
References
- ^ Marko Maletin; Svetislav Marić; Duško Vrtunski (1968). Sadržaj Letopisa Matice srpske, 1825-1950: deo. Sadržaj po strukama. Matica srpska.
Петко Илић "Муса"
- ^ Uglješa Rajčević (2007). Затирано и затрто: оскрнављени и уништени српски споменици на тлу претходне Југославије. Прометеј. ISBN 978-86-515-0057-5.
На плочи је писало: Четнички војвода ПЕТКО ИЛИЋ из Сшарог Нагоричана, Рођен јула месеца 1885 ...
- ^ Marinko Paunović (1998). Srbi: biografije znamenitih : A-Š. Emka. p. 90. ISBN 9788685205040.
- ^ Veljko Đ Đurić; Miličko Mijović (1993). Ilustrovana istorija četničkog pokreta. Narodna knj.
ВОЈВОДА ПЕТКО ИЛИЋ Војвода Петко је рођен у Ст. Нагоричану године 1880. Погинуо је на Велику Среду ове године. Већ 1906. године био је војвода. Чета му је била састављена сва из тамошњих сељака. Чувена је борба на ...
- ^ Летопис Матице српске. У Српској народној задружној штампарији. 1926.
јричао ми једном војвода Довезенски: "Јога од почетка четничке организације, Пепсо је би- о од првих организованих. Тада је имао једва шес- најест година. То му није сметало да буде увек ме- ђу онима који су кришом преносили пушке и муницију. Још мали и недовољно развијен, желео је да понесе оноли- ко као и остали. Дао сам му једну пушку и стотину метака. Ње- му је то било мало. Нисам попустио. После је, у путу, узео од других две стотине метака за мартинку".
- v
- t
- e
- Aksentije Bacetović-Baceta
- Borko Paštrović
- Boško Mitrović-Virjanac
- Doksim Mihailović-Debarac
- Dušan Dimitrijević-Dule
- Đorđe Ristić-Skopljanče
- Đorđe Cvetković-Drimkolski
- Gligor Sokolović-Nebregovski
- Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin
- Ilija Jovanović-Pčinjski
- Jovan Cvetković-Dolgač
- Jovan Stojković-Babunski
- Jovan Stanojković-Dovezenski
- Kosta Milovanović-Pećanac
- Krsta Kovačević-Trgoviški
- Lazar Kujundžić-Klempa
- Ljuba Jezdić-Razvigora
- Micko Krstić-Porečki
- Nikola Skadarac
- Pavle Mladenović-Čiča
- Petar Kacarević
- Petar Koćura
- Petko Ilić-Nagorički
- Rade Radivojević-Dušan
- Savatije Milošević
- Spasa Pavlović-Garda
- Sreten Rajković-Rudnički
- Todor Krstić-Algunjski
- Trenko Rujanović
- Vasilije Trbić
- Vojin Popović-Vuk
- Vojislav Tankosić-Voja
- Zafir Premčević
- Aleksa Komnenić
- Aleksandar Arsić
- Aleksandar Blagojević-Kočanski
- Aleksandar Simić
- Alimpije Marjanović-Ovčepoljski
- Anđelko Aleksić
- Anđel Đorđević
- Aranđel Bojković
- Arsa Gavrilović
- Atanasije Sredojević
- Blagoje Krušić
- Bogdan Jugović Hajnc
- Bogdan Kostić-Čačanin
- Bogdan Maksimović
- Bogdan Radenković
- Bogosav Srećković
- Branivoje Jovanović-Brana
- Boško Čupić
- Božin Simić
- Božin Teofilović
- Cene Marković
- Cvetko Vasić
- Čuma
- Danilo Stojanović-Dane
- Danilo Krapjanin
- Danilo Smiljković
- Dejan Jekić-Dragomir
- Denko Božinović
- Denko Dajlević
- Denko Kumanovče
- Denko Somov
- Dimitrije Dimitrijević-Mita
- Dimitrije Aleksić-Ditko
- Dončo Crnorijski
- Dragiša Kovačević
- Dragiša Stojadinović
- Dragoljub Džilić-Stric
- Dragoljub Urošević-Podrinac
- Dragoljub Nikolić
- Dragomir Protić
- Dragomir Vasiljević
- Dragutin Jovanović-Lune
- Dragutin Antić-Alavantić
- Dušan Hadži-Jovanović
- Dušan Savković
- Dušan Sekulić
- Đoka Živković
- Đorđe Cvetković-Drimkolski
- Đorđe Đerđiković
- Đorđe Sokolović-Kratovac
- Đorđe Vuković-Užičanin
- Đoša Beljanovče
- Đura Ivanišević
- Emilio Milutinović
- Jaćim Mladenović
- Jaćim Pavlović-Jaćko
- Joca Mirčić
- Jovan Božinović
- Jovan Grković-Gapon
- Jovan Naumović-Osogovski
- Jovan Pešić-Strelac-Topličanin
- Jovan Protić
- Josif Jovanović-Belocrkvanac
- Josif Katić
- Josif Mihailović
- Koce Janković
- Koce Krstić
- Lazar Simić
- Ljubomir Vulović
- Ljuba Jovanović-Čupa
- Manasija Nikolić
- Marko Ibler
- Mateja Šumenković
- Mihailo Bošković
- Mihailo Josifović
- Mihailo Jovanović-Brodski
- Mihailo Petrović
- Mihailo Ristić-Džervinac
- Milan Aleksić
- Milan Palanka
- Milan Popović
- Milan Štipljanče
- Milivoje Čolak-Antić
- Miša Aleksić-Marinko
- Nace Janković
- Naum Marković
- Nikola Jablaničanin
- Nikola Janković-Kosovski
- Nikola Lukić-Skadarac
- Omilj Glišić
- Pandilo Ćoreski-Drimkolski
- Panta Radosavljević-Dunavski
- Pavle Blažarić-Bistrički
- Petar Đinović
- Petar Maričić
- Petar Todorović-Pera
- Projče Virjanac
- Raško Anastasijević
- Rista Cvetković-Porečki
- Rista Kovačević
- Rista Petrović-Porečki
- Rista Popović-Beranac
- Rista Starački
- Sava Petković
- Sava Petrović-Grmija
- Sekula Vlahović
- Serafim Smiljanac
- Spasa Tanović-Metohijski
- Stamenko Stanišić
- Stevan Nedić-Ćela
- Stevan Simić
- Stevan Pavlović
- Stojan Koruba
- Svetozar Ranković-Toza
- Tasa Konević
- Temeljko Barjaktarević
- Todor Stojković
- Toma Krstić
- Trajko Brodski-Porečki
- Trajko–Koporan Čauš
- Trajko Prizrenac
- Vanđel Dimitrijević-Skopljanče
- Vasilije Kostić
- Velibor Trebinjac
- Velimir Prelić
- Velimir Vemić
- Veljko Petrović-Kičevski
- Vlada T. Milanović-Voskar
- Vladimir Kovačević-Vlada Maleški
- Žika Milosavljević
- Živko Gvozdić
- Živojin Balugdžić
- Živojin Milovanović-Žika
- Battle of Šuplji Kamen (27 May 1904)
- Battle of Tabanovce (27 March 1905)
- Battle of Čelopek (16 April 1905)
- Battle of Velika Hoča (25 May 1905)
- Battle of Čelopek (1906)
- Young Turk Revolution (1908)