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Dane Stojanović

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Years of service
  
1904–13

Died
  
1944

Rank
  
Voivode (Vojvoda)

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Battles/wars
  
Macedonian Struggle Balkan Wars

Battles and wars
  
Macedonian Struggle, Balkan Wars

Allegiances
  
Serbian Chetnik Organization (1904–1908), Royal Serbian Army (1912–1913)

Danilo "Dane" Stojanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Дане Стојановић, fl. 1904–18) was a Serbian Chetnik commander in Old Serbia and Macedonia (1904–08), who also participated in the Balkan Wars (1912–13). He was also known as Dane Krapče.

Life

Stojanović was born in Krapa, a village in the Makedonski Brod municipality, at the time part of the Prilep kaza of the Ottoman Empire (now Makedonski Brod, R. Macedonia). He joined the cheta (band) of Gligor Sokolović. Upon the murder of Sokolović by Turks on July 30, 1910, Stojanović succeeded as the band's commander. He participated in the Balkan Wars. In the First Balkan War, he was at the front of the Chetnik detachments and fought at Kumanovo and Bitola.

References

Dane Stojanović Wikipedia