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The Chetniks, [a] formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland [b] and informally colloquially the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement and guerrilla force [2] [3] [4] in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia.
The Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland (Serbian: Југословенска војска у отаџбини / Jugoslovenska vojska u otadžbini; ЈВуО / JVuO), commonly known as the Chetniks (Четници / Četnici), or The Ravna Gora movement (Равногорски покрет / Ravnogorski pokret), was the military formation under the direct command of Draža Mihailović, one of ...
Monument to Draža Mihailović on Ravna Gora. Ravna Gora (Serbian Cyrillic: Равна Гора) is a highland in central Serbia, at the mountain of Suvobor. It is renowned as the birthplace of the modern Chetnik movement under the leadership of Draža Mihailović in 1941. Ravna Gora was the site of a celebration marking the 50th anniversary of ...
The command of the guerrilla detachments of the Yugoslav army in early December 1941 was located in the villages at the foot of Ravna Gora. [3] [page needed] The Ravna Gora Royal Guard, commanded by Lt. Nikola Kalabić and numbering about 500 Chetnik guerrillas at the time, was the supporting unit in the command area. Other Chetnik guerrillas ...
At 12 o'clock on 21 November, the ceasefire agreed upon by Chetnik and Partisan forces after the battle at Ravna Gora was enacted. This ceasefire was celebrated by Chetnik commander Dragiša Vasić, who believed it would save the Chetniks as a movement.
The principal document was called The Goals of the Ravna Gora Movement and came in two parts. [39] "Ravna Gora Movement" in the title referred to Ravna Gora, the place where Mihailović's Chetniks first established themselves after the invasion, and is an alternative name for Mihailović's Chetnik movement. [40] The first part, The Yugoslav ...
A small group of Yugoslav officers, led by Draža Mihailović, did not accept the capitulation of the Yugoslav Army and organized resistance in their headquarters at Ravna Gora. As soon as the news about this resistance movement reached Belgrade, many intellectuals and members of non-Communist political parties supported it. [3]
Ravna Gora (highland), a highland in Serbia known for its relation with the Chetnik movement Ravna Gora (Ivanjica) , a village near Ivanjica Ravna Gora (Vlasotince) , a village near Vlasotince