Gligor Sokolović
Gligor Sokolović | |
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Vojvoda Sokolović | |
| Birth name | Gligor Sokolov Ljamević Nebregovski[c] |
| Nickname(s) | Gligor Sokolović – Nebregovski |
| Born | 17 or 5 January 1870 or 1872 Nebregovo, Ottoman Empire (now within Dolneni Municipality, North Macedonia) |
| Died | 30 July 1910 Macedonia, Ottoman Empire |
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| Years of service | 1896–1910 |
| Rank | Great Voivode (Veliki Vojvoda) |
| Unit | Western Povardarje |
| Battles / wars | Macedonian Struggle |
Gligor Sokolović (Serbian Cyrillic: Глигор Соколовић[c]; 17 or 5 January 1870 or 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 renegade who switched sides, i.e. (sic) Serboman.
After murdering a local Ottoman lord, Sokolović 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. Gođevac, 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.