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Jovan Aranđelović (Serbian Cyrillic: ; 1870 - ) was a Serbian freedom-fighter in the 1903 Old Serbia and Macedonia campaign to liberate the southern Balkan territory from the Ottoman yoke.

Biography

Jovan Aranđelović was a well-educated Serbian Orthodox priest who, at the time of the Ottoman occupation, also worked as a village schoolteacher, tutor, and was an ardent civic nationalist at a time when the Turks were trying hard to convert the Christian population to Islam. With more success among the Albanian population, they were able to persuade Arbanasi who were a majority in some mixed villages to collude with the "authorities".

Legacy

Today there is a public school in Crvena Reka named after him.

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