Dimitrije Dimitrijević (Serbian Cyrillic: Димитрије Димитријевић; Gjakova, Kosovo, Ottoman Empire, 1881 – Niš, Serbia, 17 December 1917) was a priest and one of the leaders of the Toplica Uprising in the occupied Kingdom of Serbia during World War I.
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| Native name | Димитрије Димитријевић |
| Born | 1881 Gjakova, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1917-12-17 Nis, Serbia |
| Alma mater | Serbian Orthodox Seminary (Prizren) |
He grew up in an artisan family and graduated from Prizren Seminary in 1898. He moved to Serbia around 1900, where he was a priest and teacher, serving along the then Serbian-Ottoman border.
He was one of the organizers of the Toplica Uprising and a head of the Jablanica Detachment of the Chetniks.
At the end of August 1917, in a conflict with the Bulgarian army on the Salonica front, Dimitrijević was wounded and captured.[1] The Bulgarians imprisoned him in the Niš Fortress, where he was tortured to death.[2]
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edit- ^ Баћковић, Немања. "Мита комита граби на југ" [Mita Komita is grabbing south]. Политикин забавник (in Serbian). Retrieved 5 December 2023.
- ^ Браћа Влаховић 1917: прилози за историографију Топличког устанка [Braća Vlahović, 1917: contributions to the historiography of the Toplica Uprising] (in Serbian). Стручна књига. 1988. ISBN 978-86-419-0009-5.
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