Antonije Znorić

Antonije Znorić
Born	beginning of the 17th century Habsburg Monarchy
Died	September 21, 1695 Lugoj, Ottoman Empire
Allegiance	Habsburg Monarchy
Rank	captain (kapetan), colonel (potpukovnik), obor-kapetan, oberstleutnant
Unit	Serbian Militia
Battles/wars	Battle of Lugos

Antonije Znorić (Serbian Cyrillic: Антоније Знорић; fl. 1689–d. September 21, 1695) was a military officer (colonel) of the Habsburg army and the commander of the Serbian Militia during the Great Turkish War.

He was born in Vnorovy,Habsburg Monarchy, at the beginning of the 17th century. He had a brother, Strahinja.

During the Great Turkish War Serbs gave big support to Austrian side. The Ottoman Empire had suffered partial military collapse against the Austrians in the 1680s, most notably at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, and the loss of Belgrade to Maximilian II of Bavaria in 1688 and Bosnia in 1689. However, with the beginning of the Nine Years War in the west, the early 1690s were to see an end to Habsburg conquests in the Balkans and a partial Ottoman recovery. Despite the Ottoman recovery and weakening of the Habsburg military presence on the Danube (most Habsburg soldiers were sent to fight against the France in the War of the Grand Alliance) Habsburg supreme command planned offensive activities against Ottomans, heavily relying on the Serb soldiers of Serbian Militia and Serbian rebels on the Balkans. In 1689 Louis William was appointed as chief commander of the Imperial army in its invasion of Serbia. Before the invasion Louis William recruited Serb rebels all over Serbia, whose infantry units were called hayduks while cavalry units of Serb rebels were called Serb husars.

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