Vasilije Trbić was a Chetnik fighter.

He was of Croatian Serb

Serbs of Croatia

Višeslav of Serbia, a contemporary of Charlemagne , ruled the Županias of Neretva, Tara, Piva, Lim, his ancestral lands. According to the Royal Frankish Annals , Duke of Pannonia Ljudevit Posavski fled, during the Frankish invasion, from his seat in Sisak to the Serbs in western Bosnia, who...

 origins, born in Bijelo Brdo

Bijelo Brdo

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 near Dalj

Dalj

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, Slavonia

Slavonia

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, present-day Erdut

Erdut

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, Croatia

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. He went to school in his birthplace and then in Serbia

Serbia

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. He wanted to be a monk at the Chilandar Monastery but in 1902 some Greek monks were murdered and he decided to leave Mount Athos

Mount Athos

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. He left the asceticism

Asceticism

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 and became a Chetnik fighter. He fought in all the major Chetnik operations. He shot and seriously wounded a blood brother

Blood brother

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 and fellow Chetnik in 1906, but they continued to be best friends.

In June 1913, he led the Serbian forces that crushed the Tikvesh Uprising

Tikvesh Uprising

Tikvesh uprising was an uprising in the Tikveš region of Macedonia in late June 1913. It was organized by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against the Serbian occupation of Vardar Macedonia and took place behind the Serbian enemy lines during the Second Balkan War...

 in Macedonia.

In World War I

World War I

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 he jumped behind the forces of Germany

Germany

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 and Austria

Austria

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. He fought at the battlefields for a half year then returned to Thessalonica. He received the Order of the Star of Karageorge from King Aleksandar

Alexander I of Yugoslavia

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. After the Balkan Wars

Balkan Wars

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 he settled in Veles

Veles (city)

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 with his family , During the Bulgarian occupation (1915–1918) the Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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ns murdered his father. He became a politician as Radical representative

People's Radical Party

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 and the member of Yugoslav National Party.

He was the father of Milivoje Trbić

Milivoje Trbic

Milivoje Trbić - Vojće was the son of the Chetnik voivoda Vasilije Trbić. During the Second World War, he was send by the HQ of the Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland in the Prilep area of Macedonia in order to organize Chetnik detachments. He was leader of the Porech Chetnik forces during WW2....

, a Chetnik vojvoda of World War II

World War II

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in Macedonia.