Draft:Marko Veljkovic (Chetnik)
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Marko Veljković (Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Вељковић; Bukovljane, near Kumanovo, North Macedonia, then Ottoman Empire, c. 1878 - Šuplji Kamen, Ottoman Empire, 27 May 1904) was a Serbian Chetnik freedom-fighter in the Macedonian Struggle from 1903.
Bipgraphy
[edit]Marko Veljković was born circa 1878 in the village of Bukovičani near Valjevo in what is now Serbia but at the time, it was still an unredeemed territory and part of the Ottoman Empire. Veljković joined the Serbian Chetnik Organization when it was founded in 1903. In his first major deployment, he was killed in the "Battle of Četirci", better known as Battle of Šuplji Kamen. All 24 Chetniks perished at the hands of the Turkish Army. They are:
- Duke Anđelko Aleksić from Midinaci
- Krst Mihailović from Brezno near Tetovo
- Marko Veljković from Bukovljana near Kumanovo
- Đorđe Cvetković from Leška near Tetovo
- Manojlo Anastasijević Jeloveca near Tetovo
- Micko Kuzmanović from Midinaci
- Milan Drndarević from Prilep.
- Milutin Stojković from Jagodina
- Stevan Šutović from Kuča
- Koce Arizanović Poreča
- Jovan Radosavljević from Ibarski Kolašin
- Toma Vasiljević from Dragočevo
- Spira Pelivan from Tetovo
- Đorđe Jeleković from Vranje
- Spasa Janković from Vranje
- Proka Stojanović from Poreč
- Stojan Novaković from Poreč
- Bilan Čoković from Gostivara
- Gruja Stevković from Gostivar.
- Mihajlo Kocić from Valjevo
- Đoše Kocević from Margara near Prilep.
Legacy
[edit]Chetnik Marko Veljković is considered a national hero in North Macedonia.