Gligor Sokolović, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Gligor Sokolović

Anti-Ottoman rebel

Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1870

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1910

Profession: revolutionary

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Gligor Sokolovic (Serbian Cyrillic: ?????? ?????????; 1872 – 30 July 1910) was one of the supreme commanders (Great Voivode) of the Serbian Chetnik Movement, that fought the Ottoman Empire, Bulgarian, and Albanian armed bands during the Macedonian Struggle.
He was one of the most famous Chetniks, and the foremost in Western Povardarie.
In Bulgaria he is considered a Bulgarian who switched sides, i.e.
(sic) Serboman.After murdering a local Ottoman lord, Sokolovic went into the woods with some friends and formed a guerrilla unit which would target Ottomans.
He then joined the Bulgarian revolutionary organizations of SMAC and IMRO, and fought throughout the wider Macedonia region.
After the Ottomans' suppression of the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising in 1903, he, like many others, fled to Serbia.
He was acquainted with Dr.
Godevac, one of the founders of the Serbian revolutionary organization that sought liberation of Macedonia, and became one of its supreme commanders that would fight in the Prilep region.
With the Young Turk Revolution, he became a deputy of the National Assembly of the Serbs in Turkey.
He was killed in 1910 by the Ottoman government.