Doksim Mihailović

Vojvoda
Doksim Mihailović

Doksim and his wife.
Nickname(s)
Born 20 February 1883
Galičnik, Sanjak of Dibra, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now R. Macedonia)
Died 24 October 1912 (1912-10-25) (aged 29)
Kumanovo, Sanjak of Üsküp, Ottoman Empire (now R. Macedonia)
Buried at Mlado Nagoričane
Allegiance
Years of service 1904–1912
Rank vojvoda

Doksim Mihailović (Serbian: Доксим Михаиловић; 20 February 1883 – 24 October 1912) was a Macedonian Serb voivode (military commander), originally a teacher, who joined the Serbian Chetnik Organization to fight in Ottoman Macedonia, and then the Balkan Wars (in the army of the Kingdom of Serbia). Originally a teacher, he fought against the Ottomans army and later Bulgarian guerrilla bands in the Kosovo Vilayet.

Life

Doksim was born in Galičnik, a Mijak village.[2] He finished the theological school in Prizren, and was a teacher in his home region until 1904,[3] when he joined the Serbian Chetnik Organization. In January 1905, vojvoda Gligor Sokolović sent Stefan Nedić-Ćela from Babuna to Vranje to bring new Chetniks and Doksim.[4]

He was one of many teachers who were voivodes.[5] He participated in the Battle of Čelopek (1905), which had been glorified as a great victory.[3] In 1906 he lost his teacher wage.[6]

After the guerrilla war, he went to Mount Athos, where he worked as the estate manager of the Hilandar.[3] He returned to Macedonia and married, then worked as a principal at Serbian schools in Gevgelija.[3] After that, he went to Greece and Malta and worked in trade; Doksim spoke Greek and Turkish since youth, and later taught Arabic and Italian.[3]

When the First Balkan War started, he immediately took up arms and founded his own band, and joined vojvoda Vojin Popović-Vuk, at the front of the Serbian Army.[3] Prior to the start of the First Balkan War, Chetniks gathered in Vranje from several regions: 160 in Vranje and 30 on the Kozjak with the voivodes Babunski, Ćela, Dolgač, Trpko, Dane, Vanđel, Doksim and Cakić; there were also 60 Chetniks which readied for Poreče, led by Vojvoda Vuk.[3] These bands were the first to have crossed the border, cleaned the ground, built bridges and prepared important positions such as Kozjak, Stracin, and others.[3] Doksim fought the Ottomans at Kozjak.[3] The bands were also accompanied by armed peasants, thus numbering four groups of around 250 men.[3] The Chetniks were the first to enter Prilep, then fought in the front lines in the battles for Bitola and Kičevo.[3] Doksim died on the second day of the battle of Kumanovo.[3] He was buried on a hill above the village of Mlado Nagoričane.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Vladimir Dedijer; Života Anić; Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti. Odeljenje istorijskih nauka (2008). Dokumenti o spoljnoj politici Kraljevine Srbije: dodat. 1-3. Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti.
  2. ↑ Serbian ethnographic series. Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti. 1925. p. 37. За време четничке акције Мијаци су били подељени уз Србе и Бугаре. Српски војвода је био Доксим Михаиловић из Галичника, који је погинуо 10. октобра 1912. г. код Куманова. Бугарски војвода је био Максим Н. Богоја, који је ...
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Simo Živković (December 1998). "Sakupi se jedna četa mala". Srpsko-nasledje.rs. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
  4. ↑ Tanasije M. Stojanović (1937). Kroz ograšje. Udruženje ratnih invalida. p. 61. Прешли су са њима и Стеван Недић-Ћела, кога је у јануару 1905. Глигор са Бабуне послао да у Врању скупи нове четнике и галичнички учитељ Доксим Михајловић. Обећао је своме пријатељу турском миљазиму Босанцу – Србину муслиману из Сарајева – да ће се у Галичник са четом вратити. ...
  5. ↑ Ilić, Vladimir. "Prvi gorski štabovi: Planina Kozjak bila glavno uporište". Učitelji - vojvode bili su: Jovan Dovezenski, Jovan Babunski, Rade Radivojević - Dušan Vardarski, Lazar Kujundžić - Klempa i Doksim Mihailović - Debarac.
  6. ↑ Gligor Todorovski (1970). Malorckanskiot predel. p. 238.

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