Milenko Stojković
Milenko Stojković (Serbian Cyrillic: Миленко Стојковић; 1769, Kličevac, Požarevac – 1831, Bakhchysarai, Crimea) was a Serbian revolutionary and bimbaša in the First Serbian Uprising early in the 19th century. He is most famous for executing four dahije (renegade janissaries) tyrants during the start of the First Serbian Uprising, in vengeance for the "Slaughter of the Knezes".
Having apprehended and, while running away, Milenko executed the Turkish tyrants Aganlija, Kučuk Alija, Mula Jusuf, and Mehmed Fočić, responsible for the killing of Serbian Princes that triggered the First Serbian Uprising, on the island of Ada Kaleh on the River Danube.
He later fell out with Karageorge because of his extreme whimsicality and pride (he kept a harem of Moslem women for his sexual use, among other, purportedly because they were widows of slain Ottoman Turks and had no place to return to, which was very much frowned upon by the Serbian Orthodox Church and other Uprising leaders), and evacuated to Russia, where he received a modest pension and died in Crimea.
See also
Sources
- Simić, Tomislav M. (2003). Gospodar Milenko Stojković. Istorijski arhiv. ISBN 978-86-82395-13-3.
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- Đorđe Petrović-Karađorđe
- Uzun-Mirko Apostolović
- Ilija Barjaktarović
- Anta Bogićević
- Mina Bimbaša
- Đura Brničanin
- Pavle Cukić
- Vasa Čarapić
- Ilija Čarapić
- Stojan Čupić
- Sava Dedobarac
- Aćim Doljanac
- Dimitrije Đorđević
- Todor-Toša Đorđević
- Stanoje Glavaš
- Jovan Gligorijević-Zeka Buljubaša
- Hadži-Prodan Gligorijević
- Nikola Grbović
- Petar Ičko
- Jovan Jančić-Sarajlija
- Jakov Jakšić
- Stojan Karadžić
- Janko Katić
- Ivan-Ivo Knežević
- Vreta Kolarac
- Cincar-Marko Kostić
- Naum Krnar
- Marko Krstić
- Dimitrije Kujundžić
- Jovan Kursula
- Milosav Lapovac
- Luka Lazarević
- Raka Levajac
- Arsenije Loma
- Paulj Matejić
- Sima Marković
- Tomo Milinović
- Mladen Milovanović
- Mateja Nenadović
- Sima Nenadović
- Jakov Nenadović
- Petar Nikolajević-Moler
- Dositej Novaković
- Petar Novaković-Čardaklija
- Đorđe Obradović-Ćurčija
- Jovan Obrenović
- Miloš Obrenović
- Dragan Papazoglu
- Dimitrije Parezan
- Pavle Popović
- Milutin-Era Petrović
- Ilija Strelja
- Hajduk-Veljko Petrović
- Radič Petrović
- Cincar-Janko Popović
- Mihailo Radović
- Tanasko Rajić
- Old Rashko
- Antonije Ristić-Pljakić
- Milutin Savić-Garašanin
- Čolak-Anta Simeonović
- Jovan Simić Bobovac
- Stevan Sinđelić
- Nikola Smiljanić
- Miloš Stojićević Pocerac
- Milenko Stojković
- Đorđe Šagić
- Petar Teodorović-Dobrnjac
- Miloje Todorović
- Milosav Zdravković-Resavac
- Vuča Žikić
- Nikola Ziković
- Kara-Marko Vasić
- Konda Bimbaša
- Toma Vučić Perišić
- Vujica Vulićević
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