Petar Mrkonjić

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Petar Mrkonjić (circa 17th century) was a Croatian hajduk from the Imotski region.

Little is known about Mrkonjić, except that he was active during the Cretan War (1645–1669) between the Venetian Republic and Ottoman Empire, and has been documented as Petar Imoćanin (Petar, the man from Imotski). Today, he is the subject of numerous Croatian patriotic songs, many noted by the Croatian friar and poet Andrija Kačić Miošić in the 18th century. Peter I of Serbia went under the nom de guerre of Petar Mrkonjić when he fought as a guerrilla in Bosnia in 1876.

Petar Mrkonjić has the same historic and mythical status as Starac Vujadin, Pecija i Golub, Starina Novak, Bajo Pivljanin, and others.

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Andrija Kačić Miošić, Razgovor ugodni naroda slovinskoga, Vitezovi Imotske krajine

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Name	Mrkonjic, Petar
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Short description	Croatian outlaw
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