Nickname(s) "Zika" Name Zivojin Milovanovic | Years of service 1903–05 | |
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Died May 25, 1905 (aged 21)
Velika Hoca, Ottoman Empire (now Kosovo) Allegiance Serbian Chetnik Organization (1903–05) Rank infantry lieutenant (Serbian Army)
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Zivojin Milovanovic (Serbian Cyrillic: ZHivoјin Milovanoviћ; January 23, 1884 — May 25, 1905), known by his nickname Zika, was a Serbian soldier, member of the Serbian revolutionary Chetnik Organization that fought in Old Serbia and Macedonia (see Macedonian Struggle).
Life
Milovanovic was born on January 23, 1884, in Krusevac, in the Kingdom of Serbia (now Serbia). He completed six grades of gymnasium in Krusevac, then finished the 33rd class of the Military Academy in Belgrade in 1903, with the rank of infantry lieutenant. He subsequently joined the Serbian Chetnik Organization, and in 1905, crossed the Serbian-Ottoman border into Old Serbia with a company. He participated in the famous battle at Celopek (April 1905). Together with Lazar Kujundzic and Savatije Milosevic he turned and went for Porece, through Kosovo and Podgora, in order to bypass Ottoman harassing in the Kumanovo region. Milovanovic, as a Serbian officer, was to establish the headquarters of Western Povardarje. The company was betrayed in Velika Hoca on May 25, 1905, by local Albanians who had promised (see besa) their security, thus they were forced to battle the Ottoman Army and neighbouring Albanian kachaks. After a long fight, all of these Chetniks died.