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Manojlo Anastasijević-Bego


Manojlo Anastasijevic-Bego (Jelovac, Old Serbia, Ottoman Empire. 1875 - Battle of Šuplji Kamen, Ottoman Empire, 27 May 1904) was a Serbian Chetnik who fought valiantly in the Macedonian Struggle.

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Manojlo Anastasijević was born in the village of Jelovac during the time when neighbouring villages and towns not too far were under the tyrannical rule by Abdul Hamid II, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

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Young Manojlo Anastasijevic felt compelled to land a hand in the Macedonian Struggle, the land of his forefathers who built the monasteries and churches in the surrounding landscape of his country village. He first joined the Serbian Chetnik Organization in 1904 rather than be pressed to join the VMRO which was accompanied by schismatic exarchists priests and teachers who fanned Bulgarian propaganda when the population knew in their hearts that they were in the Serbian heartland of the time of the Nemanjic Dynasty.

In his first deployment at Šuplji Kamen, Manojlo Anastasijevic was one of the four victims of the chetas sent to challenge the Turkish Army and the Albanian Kachaks. The other fallen were Anđelko Aleksić, Marko Veljković, and Krsta Mihailović, while the enemy succumbed to a greater number in the armed onslaught that surprised everyone, both the losers and the winners.


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