Božidar Janković

Božidar Janković
Božidar Janković
	Božidar Janković
Native name	Божидар Јанковић
Born	7 December 1849; Belgrade, Serbia
Died	7 July 1920 (aged 70); Herceg Novi, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Allegiance	Principality of Serbia; Kingdom of Serbia;
Rank	General
Commands held	Serbian Third Army
Battles/wars	Serbo-Turkish wars; Serbo-Bulgarian War; First Balkan War;

Božidar Janković (Serbian Cyrillic: Божидар Јанковић; 7 December 1849 – 7 July 1920) was a Serbian army general commander of the Serbian Third Army during the First Balkan War between the Balkan League and the Ottoman Empire. In 1901 he served as Minister of the Army and Navy in the Ministry of Defence.

Biography[]

He graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff School. He became State Secretary of Military Matters of Serbia in 1902. As President of the National Defence, he participated in the Chetnik fighting for Macedonia.

In World War I he was the Chief of Staff of the Montenegrin Supreme Command until June 1915 and a delegate of the Serbian Supreme Command at the Montenegrin Supreme Command.

Janković died on 7 July 1920 in the town of Herceg Novi.^[2] The town of Elez Han in Kosovo was named 'Đeneral Janković' after him. His son Milojko B. Jankovic (1884 - 1973) was the army general in the army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

He was awarded Order of the White Eagle and a number of other decorations.^[3]

References[]

^ Mile Bjelajac, Vojska Kraljevine Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca 1918-1921, 1988 - стр. 97
^ "† Ђенерал Божа Јанковић" (in Serbian). Politika. 8 July 1920. Retrieved 30 July 2010.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 94.

Political offices
Preceded by Miloš Vasić	Minister of Defence 1901	Succeeded by

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[1] Mile Bjelajac, Vojska Kraljevine Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca 1918-1921, 1988 - стр. 97

[2] "† Ђенерал Божа Јанковић" (in Serbian). Politika. 8 July 1920. Retrieved 30 July 2010.^{[permanent dead link]}

[3] Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 94.

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