Aksentije Bacetović
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| Birth name | Aksentije Bacetić |
| Nickname(s) | Baceta, Rujanac |
| Born | 27 February 1860 Užice, Principality of Serbia |
| Died | 16 June 1905 (aged 45) Beljakovce, Ottoman Empire |
| Allegiance |
 Serbian Chetnik Organization (1904–05) |
| Years of service | 1904–05 |
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Aksentije Bacetić (Serbian Cyrillic: Аксентије Бацетић, 27 February 1860 – 16 June 1905), known as Baceta (Бацета), was a Serbian secret agent and Chetnik commander in Macedonia. His surname has been spelled Bacetović.
Bacetić was born in the village of Kriva Reka near Užice, in the Principality of Serbia. He had red hair. As a youngster he joined the ranks of the People's Radical Party. He participated in the Timok Rebellion in 1882, after which he fled to the Principality of Bulgaria. He then went to the Russian Empire where he enrolled in the NCO school finished with the rank of junker. He returned to Serbia where his sub-commander rank was recognized.
He translated works from Bulgarian into Serbian.
Bacetić worked as a double agent in Bulgaria, giving the Serbian command information on Bulgarian troop placements during the Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885). He was caught and sentenced to death, but the Serbian side insisted on prison during the peace treaty talks, and he was given 101 years of imprisonment. He managed to escape from prison and returned to Serbia, and was then sent to carry out espionage in Austria-Hungary. He was accused of being a Bulgarian spy and was expelled from service. After the May Coup (1903), he started to work with old crafts in Old Serbia and Macedonia.
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