Damnjan Nedić
Damnjan Nedić (Osečina, Kolubara District, Serbia, 1772 - Čokešina, Municipality of Loznica, Serbia, 1804) is remembered as a heroic figure along with his brother as well as and who with their respective companies of hajduk četas fell in the [1] during Karađorđe's Serbia.[2][3]
In Serbian history, he is one of three Nedić brothers, two of whom perished at the Battle of Čokešina on Lazarus Saturday in 1804 to a numerically superior Turkish army when they attacked the Serbian monastery where 300 young haiduks met their fate. German historian Leopold von Ranke called it the Serbian Thermopylae.[4]Later, the surviving brother Mihajlo Nedić who was stationed elsewhere during the Battle of Čokešina was killed in another battle in 1809.
A street in Belgrade is named after the two brothers.[5]
References[]
- ^ "Памте српске Термопиле". Новости. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
- ^ Меморијали ослободилачких ратова Србије. 2006. ISBN 9788676860678.
- ^ "Braća Nedić, junaci bitke kod Čokešine".
- ^ http://www.sgd.org.rs/publikacije/zemlja%20i%20ljudi/56/2006%20-%20Ljiljana%20Grcic%20-%20Srpski%20Termopili.pdf
- ^ Moser, Birgitta Gabriela Hannover (March 2019). Belgrad und Novi Sad: Sehenswürdigkeiten, Kultur, Szene, Umland, Reiseinfos. ISBN 9783897944527.
- 1772 births
- 1804 deaths
- First Serbian Uprising
- Hajduks
- Rebels of the Ottoman Empire
- Guerrillas
- History of the Balkans