Vasa Jovanović

Vasilije Jovanović (also known as Vasa Maćedonac, b. Skopje February 1874 – Belgrade 31 December 1970), lawyer, politician, founder of the Chetnik movement and a founding member of the League of Nations.

Youth and Education

Faced with ethnic Albanian violence, Jovanović's family had to escape the village of Kožlje. They found refuge in Skopje where Vasilije was born. After his primary education the family moved to Belgrade where young Jovanović finished high school and Law Faculty. He rounded up his education with a PhD in Bruxelles.

Founding of the Chetnik movement

As a lawyer in Belgrade he was a member of a masonic lodge Pobratimstvo where he was acquainted with Luka Ćelović and Milorad Godjevac who already kept touch with Serbs in Macedonia, especially those acting within VMRO. In September 1903 the group formed a Serb revolutionary and guerrilla committee for Macedonia – Glavni odbor četničke akcije. Jovanović became its secretary and one of its leaders until 1905.

After the Young Turk revolution in 1908 when affairs in Macedonia seemed to be going towards a political solution, Jovanović took part in the First Conference of Serbs of Old Serbia and Macedonia (12-15 August 1908) in Skopje.^[1] He was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the newly founded Serb Democratic League (political party of Serbs living in the Ottoman Empire). Jovanović also took part as a member of the Assembly of Serbs in Ottoman Empire in Skopje, which first met in February 1909 and was active until the end of that year when it was banned by the Young Turks. ^[2]

WW1 and Later Political Career

In World War One he was mobilized and later on was sent to France by Serbian government.

After the War he was in Geneva as a Yugoslav member of the League of Nations. In Kingdom of Yugoslavia he took active role in politics and acted as a Minister of Transport in several governments.

Notes

↑ Српска демократска лига у Отомаској царевини. Манифест - Записник - Организациja, Издање "Српског клуба", Скопље, 1908, стр. 6
↑ В. Крестић, Р. Љушић, Програми и статути српских политичких странака до 1918, Београд 1991, стр. 407, 410

Reference

S. Simić, Srpska revolucionarna organizacija, komitsko četovanje u Staroj Srbiji 1903-1912, Beograd 1998, pp. 22, 38-43

Serbian Chetnik Organization

Commanders (1903–12)	Aksentije Bacetović-Baceta Borko Paštrović 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 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 Zafir Premčević Živojin Milovanović-Žika

Fighters	Aleksa Komnenić Aleksandar Arsić Aleksandar Blagojević-Kočanski Aleksandar Simić Alimpije Marjanović-Ovčepoljski Anđelko Aleksić Anđel Đorđević Arsa Gavrilović Atanasije Sredojević Blagoje Krušić Bogdan Jugović Hajnc Bogdan Maksimović Bogdan Radenković Branivoje Jovanović-Brana Boško Čupić Boško Virjanac Božin Simić Božin Teofilović Cene Marković Cvetko Vasić Čuma Danilo Stojanović-Dane Danilo Krapjanin Dejan Jekić-Dragomir Denko Božinović Denko Dajlević Denko Kumanovče Denko Somov Dimitrije Dimitrijević-Mita Dimitrije Aleksić-Ditko Dončo Crnorijski Dragiša Kovačević Dragiša Stojadinović Dragoljub Urošević-Podrinac Dragomir Protić Dragomir Vasiljević Dragutin Jovanović-Lune Dušan Hadži-Jovanović Dušan Savković Dušan Sekulić Đoka Živković Đorđe Đerđiković Đorđe Sokolović-Kratovac Đoša Beljanovče Đura Ivanišević Emilio Milutinović Ilija Jovanović-Zmejko 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 Mateja Šumenković Mihailo Jovanović-Brodski Mihailo Josifović Mihailo Petrović Mihailo Ristić-Džervinac Milan Aleksić Milan Palanka Milan Popović Milivoje Čolak-Antić Miša Aleksić-Marinko Nace Janković Nikola Jablaničanin Nikola Janković-Kosovski Nikola Lukić-Skadarac Omilj Glišić Pandilo Ćoreski-Drimkolski Panta Radosavljević-Dunavski Pavle Blažarić-Bistrički Pera Kačarević Petar Đinović Petar Kacarović-Maleški Petar Keckerović 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 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-Kičevski Trajko Prizrenac Vanđel Dimitrijević-Skopljanče Velibor Trebinjac Velimir Prelić Velimir Vemić Veljko Petrović-Kičevski Vlada T. Milanović-Voskar Vladimir Kovačević-Vlada Maleški Živko Gvozdić Živojin Balugdžić

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

Events	Fight on Šuplji Kamen (May 27, 1904) Fight in Tabanovce (March 27, 1905) Fight on Čelopek (April 16, 1905) Fight in Velika Hoča (May 25, 1905) Fight on Čelopek (1906) Young Turk Revolution (1908)

With the outbreak of the First Balkan War (1912), the organization was put under the supervision of the Serbian Army (see Chetniks in the Balkan Wars)

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