This is a list of
Chetnikvoivodes. Voivode (
Slavic languages for 'war-leader' / 'war-lord') is a
Slavic as well as
Romanian title that originally denoted the principal commander of a military force. It derives from the word vojevoda, which in early Slavic meant the bellidux, i.e. the military commander of an area, but it usually had a greater meaning. Among the first modern-day voivodes was
Kole Rašić, a late 19th-century Serb revolutionary and guerrilla fighter, who led a
cheta of 300 men between
Niš and
Leskovac in Ottoman areas during the Serbo-Turkish War (1876–1878). The others were
Rista Cvetković-Božinče,
Čerkez Ilija,
Čakr-paša, and
Spiro Crne.
Jovan Hadži-Vasiljević, who knew Spiro Crne personally, wrote and published his biography, Spiro Crne Golemdžiojski, in 1933.
Commanders of Old Serbia and Macedonia (1903–1912), Balkan Wars
In Draža Mihailović's organization forty Chetnik voivodes were recognized, thirty appointed by Birčanin and ten by Dangić, either on Mihailović's proposal or on own accord
Draža Mihailović (1893–1946), supreme commander, vojvoda of the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army.
This is a list of
Chetnikvoivodes. Voivode (
Slavic languages for 'war-leader' / 'war-lord') is a
Slavic as well as
Romanian title that originally denoted the principal commander of a military force. It derives from the word vojevoda, which in early Slavic meant the bellidux, i.e. the military commander of an area, but it usually had a greater meaning. Among the first modern-day voivodes was
Kole Rašić, a late 19th-century Serb revolutionary and guerrilla fighter, who led a
cheta of 300 men between
Niš and
Leskovac in Ottoman areas during the Serbo-Turkish War (1876–1878). The others were
Rista Cvetković-Božinče,
Čerkez Ilija,
Čakr-paša, and
Spiro Crne.
Jovan Hadži-Vasiljević, who knew Spiro Crne personally, wrote and published his biography, Spiro Crne Golemdžiojski, in 1933.
Commanders of Old Serbia and Macedonia (1903–1912), Balkan Wars
In Draža Mihailović's organization forty Chetnik voivodes were recognized, thirty appointed by Birčanin and ten by Dangić, either on Mihailović's proposal or on own accord
Draža Mihailović (1893–1946), supreme commander, vojvoda of the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army.