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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.
Subsequent clashes near Preševo led to more Chetniks deaths. [1] [2] The two-day conflict resulted in the deaths of 38 Serbian Chetniks, including their leader Dragoljub Nikolić, and six Albanian casualties with 13 wounded. [1] The fallen Chetniks were buried by the Kachaks in Gjilan at the Martyrs' Hill (formerly Popovica). [1]
Chetniks on parade in Belgrade, c. 1920. Association against Bulgarian Bandits, between 1922 and 1925. Chetnik Association, between 1921 and 1926. In the interwar period in Yugoslavia (1918–41), there were several veteran associations of Serbian guerrillas (known as "Chetniks") that had fought in Ottoman Macedonia (1903–12), Balkan Wars (1912–13) and World War I (1914–18).
The Partisan–Chetnik War was an armed conflict between the communist Yugoslav Partisans and the monarchist Chetniks which lasted from 1941 (after the end of the Chetnik Partisan Alliance during the Serbian Uprising in the Second World War) until 1945 (the end of the Second World War in Yugoslavia).
The Central National Committee of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, [1] also known by its Yugoslav abbreviation CNK (Serbo-Croatian: Централни национални комитет Краљевине Југославије, Centralni nacionalni komitet Kraljevine Jugoslavije), [2] was an advisory body of the Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland (commonly known as the Chetniks) established during ...
Both of them, alongside several other Chetniks, were killed on April 3, 1942, by Jusuf Baftjari and his men, after failing to kill him in an armed clash. [9] On March 20, 1943, Serbian Chetniks attacked Jusuf Baftjari in his home village but failed to kill him and fled after four Chetniks were killed by him and his forces in battle. [9]
The Chetniks, a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement and guerrilla force, committed numerous war crimes during the Second World War, primarily directed against the non-Serb population of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, mainly Muslims and Croats, and against Communist-led Yugoslav Partisans and their supporters.
Pages in category "Chetniks" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...