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GREAT ACKNOWLEDGMENT! The high decoration of the Cross of the Supreme Leader Djordje Stratimirović was presented to the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić

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15.11.2021

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Today, the representatives of the Center for Development of Šajkaška presented the high decoration of the Cross of the Supreme Leader Djordje Stratimirović to the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić

GREAT ACKNOWLEDGMENT! The high decoration of the Cross of the Supreme Leader Djordje Stratimirović was presented to the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić

The high recognition, named after the commander of the Serbian military forces during the revolution in Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1848, was presented to Vučić by Professor Ivan Stratimirović, great-grandson of the Supreme Leader Djordje Stratimirović.

The delegation included the academician Darko Tanasković, an MP, the President of the Serbian League and the President of the Committee for the Return of the Remains of the Supreme Leader Djordje Stratimirović to his homeland, Aleksandar Djurdjev, the President of the Center for the Development of Šajkaška Danijel Kulačin and the Secretary General of the Serbian League Goran Milenković.

Aleksandar Vučić spoke to the representatives of that Center in the building of the Presidency of Serbia, after which he was presented with the recognition.

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Who was Djordje Stratimirović

Djordje Stratimirović, the commander of the Serbian army in Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1848, a Serbian general who was called the Supreme Leader by the Serbs of that time out of endearment, he came from a respectable house of a landowner, the Stratimirović family from Kulpin, which originates from Herzegovina.

He was born in Novi Sad on 7 February 1822, and was buried in Vienna, where he died on 15 December 1908.

At the initiative of the Center for the Development of Šajkaška, and with the support of the descendants of the Stratimirović family, his remains were transferred to Serbia, to Sremski Karlovci, on 27 September this year and interred in the soil of the country where he was born.

Šajkaška is a geographical region in Serbia, it occupies the southeastern part of Bačka, and is located between four municipalities - Novi Sad, Titel, Žabalj and Srbobran, and unites 14 settlements.

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