Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin
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vojvoda Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin |
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In Chetnik gear, 1907
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| Native name | Илија Трифуновић-Бирчанин |
| Born | 1877 Topola, Principality of Serbia |
| Died | 3 February 1943 Split, Kingdom of Italy |
| Allegiance |
 Chetniks (1941–43) Kingdom of Italy (1942–43) |
| Years of service | 1912–18 1941–43 |
| Rank | vojvoda |
| Commands held | Chetnik movement in Dalmatia and the Independent State of Croatia, including Herzegovina and western Bosnia |
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Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin (Serbian Cyrillic: Илија Трифуновић-Бирчанин; 1877 – 3 February 1943) was a Serbian Chetnik military commander (vojvoda, вoјвода). He took part in the Balkan Wars and World War I and afterwards served as the president of the Association of Serb Chetniks for Freedom and the Fatherland in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Beginning in 1941 he collaborated with the Italians under the awareness and condonation of supreme Chetnik commander Draža Mihailović. In the spring of 1942, he was appointed by Mihailović as the commander of Chetniks in Dalmatia, Herzegovina, western Bosnia and southwestern Croatia. In October 1942, Trifunović-Birčanin and his subordinate commanders, Dobroslav Jevđević and Petar Baćović, were responsible for the killing of over 500 Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat civilians in the Prozor region in October 1942. He died in Split on 3 February 1943, having suffered from poor health for a considerable period of time.
Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin was born in Topola, Principality of Serbia in 1877. He served as a volunteer on the Serbian side in the Balkan Wars. He also fought with Serb forces during World War I, attaining the rank of Chetnik commander (Serbo-Croatian: vojvoda, вoјвода) and losing an arm in combat.
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