Nickname(s) "Ćela" Rank Voivode (Vojvoda) Other name "Ćela" | Years of service 1902–1918 Died 1923 | |
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Allegiance Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (1902–1903)
Serbian Chetnik Organization (1903–1908) and Serbian Army (1912–18) Battles/wars Chetniks in Macedonia
Balkan Wars
World War I Battles and wars Serbian Chetnik Organization, Balkan Wars, World War I | ||
Stevan Nedić (Serbian Cyrillic: Стеван Недић; 1875–1923), nicknamed Ćela (Ћела), was a Serbian Chetnik commander in Old Serbia and Macedonia.
Life
Nedić was born in 1875, in the village of Strugovo near Bitola, in the Ottoman Empire (now R. Macedonia). He received his nickname Ćela (slang for "head"), due to his Typhoid fever that left marks on his head. He joined the Bulgarian-organized Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) as a fighter in the bands of Georgi Sugarev and Gligor Sokolović. In 1902 he befriended Milorad Gođevac, the founder of the Serbian Chetnik Organization. He participated in the Ilinden Uprising. He joined the Serbian Chetniks in 1903, and in 1905 he and Jovan Babunski cross the Vardar for the Veles region. He participated in the battles of Oreška Livada and Kurt's Stone near Krapa (1905). He was an active fighter in the Balkan Wars and the First World War (1912–18), then after the Serbian liberation he became a municipality president in his home village, a post he held until his murder. He was murdered in 1923 by a Bulgarian nationalist agent.