Milenko Stojković

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Stojković

Milenko Stojković (Serbian Cyrillic: Миленко Стојковић) (1769, Kličevac, Požarevac 1831) was a Bimbasha Bimbashi (later Commander-in-chief) in the First Serbian Uprising early in the 19th century. He is most famous for having apprehended and, while running away, executed the Turkish tyrants Aganlija, Kucuk Alija, Mula Jusuf and Mehmed Focic, responsible for the killing of Serbian Princes that triggered the First Serbian Uprising, on the island of Ada Kaleh on the River Danube.

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