Sava Bjelanović

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Sava Bjelanović (15 October 1850, Đevrske - 1897, Zadar) (Serbian Cyrillic: Сава Бјелановић) was an Adriatic Serbian writer and politician, the leader of the coastal Serb Party and the most prominent Dalmatian Serb of the 19th century.

In 1880 he formed the Zadar "Serb List" newspaper. After it was banned, he created the "Serb Voice" in 1888, which was published regularly beyond Sava's death until 1905. It became very popular and influential. In 1883 he was elected into the Dalmatian Parliament. The greatest success of his political party was the local election in Dubrovnik in 1890, where it won a decisive victory. He was one of the co-founders of the Dalmatian Lazarica Orthodox Church and headed regularly its Saint Vitus's Days Councils. He died in the city where he spent most of his life, Zadar, in 1897. He was buried in his birth village of Đevrske near Knin.