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Battle of Čelopek

Part of the Macedonian Struggle

Date	16 April 1905
Location	Čelopek, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Staro Nagoričane, North Macedonia) 42°13′37″N 21°49′35″E / 42.226944°N 21.826389°E / 42.226944; 21.826389
Result	Serbian Chetniks victory

Belligerents

Serbian Chetnik Organization

Local Ottoman army

Commanders and leaders

Borko Paštrović
Aksentije Bacetović
Ilija Jovanović-Pčinjski
Lazar Kujundžić
Pavle Mladenović
Ljubomir Jezdić

N/A

Strength

120–130

200

Casualties and losses

4 killed

200 killed

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Location of Čelopek in North Macedonia

The Battle of Čelopek (Serbian: Borba na Čelopeku, Serbian Cyrillic: Борба на Челопеку) was fought at the Čelopek plateau, near Kozjak, between the Serbian Chetnik Organization and Ottoman officers accompanied by Ottoman Albanian bashi-bozuks, on 16 April 1905.

Background

After the fights in Tabanovce, Savatije Milošević, Lazar Kujundžić and Aksentije Bacetović-Baceta left their offices as organizers of the action, wanting to feel the Chetnik lifestyle "from within" as voivodes. Baceta was to replace the then Chief of Upper Staff, Ilija Jovanović. Baceta and Savatije Milošević, by mid-April, had moved 107 fighters across the border.^[1]

Fight

At dawn on Holy Saturday (15 April [O.S. 2 April]), the two large bands (Cheta) -- Belgrade and Kragujevac -- arrived at the village of Dubočica. There, they were awaited by the bands of Ilija Jovanović, Lazar Kujundžić, Čiča-Pavle Mladenović and Ljubomir Jezdić. The Kragujevac Band was led by captain (kapetan) Borko Paštrović and had the sub-lieutenants (potporučnici): Vojin Popović-Vuk, Dušan Jezdić, Pera Todorović and Dušan Putniković. The Belgrade Band was led by Baceta, and included Vojvoda Savatije, officers (oficiri) Janićije Mićić, Bogdan Jugović Hajnc, Vojislav Tankosić, Branivoj Jovanović and non-commissioned officers (podoficiri) Jović, Radul Kosovac, Novica Leovac, Radoš Vasiljević, Trajko and Radivoje Ilić. They were also accompanied with the bands of Stevan Nedić and Doksim Mihailović, which had been returned to western Povardarje after vacationing in Belgrade.^[1]

On 16 April [O.S. 3 April], at the heights of Čelopek, around 120 chetniks under the command of voivodes Doksim, Čiča-Pavle, Baceta, Kujundžić, Borko Paštrović, Skopljanče, Vojislav Tankosić and Jovan Dovezenski fought a uniformed Ottoman army accompanied by Albanians from the surrounding villages. During the battle Čiča-Pavle took the Čelopek heights and thus prevented the encirclement of the bands from the Albanian bashi-bozuks; overtaking the three peaks gave the chetniks a strategical advantage and after the victorious fight they made heavy losses to the Turks and Albanians (over 200 dead and wounded), while only having two dead (Petar Todorović and Radul Kosovac) according to Serbian sources,^[2]^[3] while British Vice-Consul Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger claimed in a letter dated 19 April [O.S. 6 April] that fighting near Kumanovo 'the earlier day' had taken 4 Serbian officers' lives, and 8 captured.^[4]

Aftermath

The victory enraged the Ottomans,^[5] who began manhunting the rebels. The rebels were forced to retreat across the border,^[6] and were dispersed. Čiča-Pavle and Bacetović were surrounded by the Ottoman army near the village of Beljakovce (today's Kriva Palanka) on 16 June, and everyone in their bands were killed.^[7]^[8]

On 21 January 1906, another fight took place in the same place, in which Vasilije Trbić nearly lost his whole band (22 men) to the Ottomans.

References

^ ^a ^b Ilić, Vladimir (March 5, 2003). "Ubistvo popa Taška". Glas Javnosti.
^ name=Ilic-55>Ilić 2006, p. 55; Ilić, Vladimir (March 6, 2003). "Borba na Čelopeku". Glas Javnosti.
^ Krakov 1990, pp. 216–222
^ Rastović 2011, p. 137.
^ Драгиша Васић; Гојко Тешић; Александар Јерков; Вук Крњевић (1990). Dva meseca u jugoslovenskom Sibiru: Utisci iz Rusije ; Putopisi, eseji, kritike, članci. Просвета. ISBN 9788607004904. То је било после победе на Челопеку због коje Турци беху побеснели.
^ Alekan Jovanović (1937). Spomenica dvadesetpetogodishnjice oslobodjenja Južne Srbije. Потерна одељења турске војске открила су их у Никуљану. После одржане славне борбе на Челопеку, у којој су Турци имали преко две стотине које мртвих које рањених, они су св морали вратити преко границе. Њихов ...
^ Trifunović 1933, pp. 24–28
^ Ilić 2006, pp. 61–64

Sources

Ilić, Vladimir (2006). Српска четничка акција 1903-1912. Ecolibri. ISBN 978-86-7905-044-1.
Trifunović, Ilija (1933). Trnotivim stazama (in Serbian). Belgrade.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Krakov, Stanislav (1990) [1930]. Plamen četništva (in Serbian). Belgrade: Hipnos.
Rastović, Aleksandar (2011). Velika Britanija i makedonsko pitanje 1903-1908 godine. Istorijski institut. ISBN 978-86-7743-088-7.

v t e Serbian Chetnik Organization
Commanders (1903–12)	Aksentije Bacetović-Baceta Borko Paštrović Boško Mitrović-Virjanac Doksim Mihailović-Debarac Dušan Dimitrijević-Dule Đorđe Ristić-Skopljanče Đorđe Cvetković-Drimkolski Gligor Sokolović-Nebregovski Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin Ilija Jovanović-Pčinjski Jovan Cvetković-Dolgač Jovan Stojković-Babunski Jovan Stanojković-Dovezenski Kosta Milovanović-Pećanac Krsta Kovačević-Trgoviški Lazar Kujundžić-Klempa Ljuba Jezdić-Razvigora Micko Krstić-Porečki Nikola Skadarac Pavle Mladenović-Čiča Petar Kacarević Petar Koćura Petko Ilić-Nagorički Rade Radivojević-Dušan Savatije Milošević Spasa Pavlović-Garda Sreten Rajković-Rudnički Todor Krstić-Algunjski Trenko Rujanović Vasilije Trbić Vojin Popović-Vuk Vojislav Tankosić-Voja Zafir Premčević
Fighters	Aleksa Komnenić Aleksandar Arsić Aleksandar Blagojević-Kočanski Aleksandar Simić Alimpije Marjanović-Ovčepoljski Anđelko Aleksić Anđel Đorđević Aranđel Bojković Arsa Gavrilović Atanasije Sredojević Blagoje Krušić Bogdan Jugović Hajnc Bogdan Kostić-Čačanin Bogdan Maksimović Bogdan Radenković Bogosav Srećković Branivoje Jovanović-Brana Boško Čupić Božin Simić Božin Teofilović Cene Marković Cvetko Vasić Čuma Danilo Stojanović-Dane Danilo Krapjanin Danilo Smiljković Dejan Jekić-Dragomir Denko Božinović Denko Dajlević Denko Kumanovče Denko Somov Dimitrije Dimitrijević-Mita Dimitrije Aleksić-Ditko Dončo Crnorijski Dragiša Kovačević Dragiša Stojadinović Dragoljub Džilić-Stric Dragoljub Urošević-Podrinac Dragoljub Nikolić Dragomir Protić Dragomir Vasiljević Dragutin Jovanović-Lune Dragutin Antić-Alavantić Dušan Hadži-Jovanović Dušan Savković Dušan Sekulić Đoka Živković Đorđe Cvetković-Drimkolski Đorđe Đerđiković Đorđe Sokolović-Kratovac Đorđe Vuković-Užičanin Đoša Beljanovče Đura Ivanišević Emilio Milutinović Jaćim Mladenović Jaćim Pavlović-Jaćko Joca Mirčić Jovan Božinović Jovan Grković-Gapon Jovan Naumović-Osogovski Jovan Pešić-Strelac-Topličanin Jovan Protić Josif Jovanović-Belocrkvanac Josif Katić Josif Mihailović Koce Janković Koce Krstić Lazar Simić Ljubomir Vulović Ljuba Jovanović-Čupa Manasija Nikolić Marko Ibler Mateja Šumenković Mihailo Bošković Mihailo Josifović Mihailo Jovanović-Brodski Mihailo Petrović Mihailo Ristić-Džervinac Milan Aleksić Milan Palanka Milan Popović Milan Štipljanče Milivoje Čolak-Antić Miša Aleksić-Marinko Nace Janković Naum Marković Nikola Jablaničanin Nikola Janković-Kosovski Nikola Lukić-Skadarac Omilj Glišić Pandilo Ćoreski-Drimkolski Panta Radosavljević-Dunavski Pavle Blažarić-Bistrički Petar Đinović Petar Maričić Petar Todorović-Pera Projče Virjanac Raško Anastasijević Rista Cvetković-Porečki Rista Kovačević Rista Petrović-Porečki Rista Popović-Beranac Rista Starački Sava Petković Sava Petrović-Grmija Sekula Vlahović Serafim Smiljanac Spasa Tanović-Metohijski Stamenko Stanišić Stevan Nedić-Ćela Stevan Simić Stevan Pavlović Stojan Koruba Svetozar Ranković-Toza Tasa Konević Temeljko Barjaktarević Todor Stojković Toma Krstić Trajko Brodski-Porečki Trajko–Koporan Čauš Trajko Prizrenac Vanđel Dimitrijević-Skopljanče Vasilije Kostić Velibor Trebinjac Velimir Prelić Velimir Vemić Veljko Petrović-Kičevski Vlada T. Milanović-Voskar Vladimir Kovačević-Vlada Maleški Žika Milosavljević Živko Gvozdić Živojin Balugdžić Živojin Milovanović-Žika
Key people	Milorad Gođevac Vasa Jovanović Golub Janić Jovan Atanacković Jovan Ćirković-Čifa Nikola Spasić Luka Ćelović Ljubomir Kovačević Ljubomir Jovanović Ljubomir Davidović Ljubomir Stojanović Žika Rafajlović Society of Saint Sava
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