Božidar Janković

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Božidar Janković
Božidar Janković
Native name	Божидар Јанковић
Born	(1849-12-07)7 December 1849 Belgrade, Serbia
Died	7 July 1920(1920-07-07) (aged 70) Herceg Novi, Montenegro
Allegiance	Principality of Serbia Kingdom of Serbia
Rank	General
Commands held	Serbian Third Army^[1]
Battles/wars	Serbo-Turkish wars Serbo-Bulgarian War First Balkan War

Božidar Janković (Serbian: Божидар Јанковић; 7 December 1849 – 7 July 1920) was a Serbian army general commander of the Serbian Third Army during the First Balkan War between the Balkan League and the Ottoman Empire.

During the First Balkan War, Jankovic committed massacres of the Albanian populations of Kosovo and Macedonia.^[2]

Janković died on 7 July 1920 in the town of Herceg Novi.^[3] The town of Đeneral Janković in Kosovo is named after him.

References

↑ Mile Bjelajac, Vojska Kraljevine Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca 1918-1921, 1988 - стр. 97
↑ "Albania's Golgotha: Indictment of the Exterminators of the Albanian People". Retrieved 17 July 2013.
↑ "† Ђенерал Божа Јанковић" (in Serbian). Politika. 8 July 1920. Retrieved 30 July 2010.

Persondata
Name	Janković, Božidar
Alternative names	Божидар Јанковић (Serbian)
Short description	Serbian Third Army commander
Date of birth	7 December 1849
Place of birth	Belgrade, Serbia
Date of death	7 July 1920
Place of death	Herzeg Novi, Montenegro

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