Talk:Dragutin Dimitrijević

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Ok, concerning his date of birth. Most sites seem to say that he was born in 1877, but the Encyclopedia Britannica says August 17, 1876. Given that that is the most authoritative source I can find....

-Which "serie" of military defeats in the first two years of war is mentioned here?

On Serbian Wikipedia his date of birth is:August,10 1877.I think that the original(Serbian)sources are more attendable.

This text is inaccurate.What military defeats?He was arrested for allegedly preparing the assasination of Aleksandar Karadjordjevic

Immediate cause of World War I

The latter assassinations were the immediate cause of World War I.

This sentence needs to be modified: the causes for the outbreak of World War I are very complex issue. Check Causes of World War I

Room for improvement here

This article does not have page citations. Beyond that, here are some content suggestions:

1. Add to his military career his stint as Chief of Serbian Military Intelligence and of course his role during WW1 before his arrest.
2. Include the exact date of his arrest, indictment (March 15) conviction (May 23rd), and execution (June 26th), and of the posthumous overturning of the verdict.
3. The "important victories" are probably referring to the Balkan Wars, of which Apis was a key strategist. The article ought to be specific.
4. His next of kin was his nephew, who granted interviews about his uncle. You might want to have a quote.
5. The three assassins that Tankosic sent from Belgrade to kill Franz-Ferdinand were not members of the Black Hand, but this is a common mistake and there are a number of bad sources that claim they were. Their names did not appear on the coded lists of members. They were too young to be members of the Black Hand. Ilic was a member. Also, Mehmedbasic.
6. Apis did not become leader of the Black Hand in 1911 (the date being implied by the article). Eventually, he did become the most influential member, but that was later, and he still was not officially at its head. The President was of course dead and not replaced. This made the Secretary the organization's ranking member.
7. Most evidence points to Milan Ciganovic as being the police informant who ratted out the plot to assassinate Franz-Ferdinand to Pasic and Protic. If you want to claim Tankosic was the source, you need strong proof, after all, Tankosic's own statements (before his death in battle) seem to contradict this.
8. Dimitrijevic was not fingered by the assassins! The Austro-Hungarians did not demand his arrest! Austria-Hungary only demanded the arrests of Tankosic and Ciganovic. The demands were made on July 23rd not July 25th!
9. The following sentence is nonsense: "On July 25, 1914, Nikola Pašić, the prime minister of Serbia, told the Austro-Hungarian government that he was unable to hand over these three men as it 'would be a violation of Serbia's Constitution and criminal in law'." It should be replace with Serbia arrested and immediately released Tankosic and told Ciganovic to get out of town. Serbia went on to inform Austria-Hungary that Ciganvoic could not be found.
10. You may wish to mention Apis' confession to ordering the assassination of Franz-Ferdinand.
11. The decision to arrest members of the former Black Hand was quite complex, and mis-stated in the article. Regent Alexander and Pasic acted together against the Black Hand.
12. It seems to me that Dimitrijevic put in equal or greater effort toward conquering lands where Serbs lived under Ottoman rule (Kosovo [old Serbia], Macedonia, and the Sanjak of Novibazar) than lands under Austro-Hungarian rule. The Kingdom of Serbia was of course, always independent of Austria-Hungary, so its hard to know what the article is saying when it talks of liberation of Serbia from Austria-Hungary.

Werchovsky (talk) 12:14, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Dragutins Pseudonym "Apis"...

Dragutin was a Freemason, and the Apis-Bull of ancient Egypt is a symbol that is well known there (fe. Friedrich Schiller`s "Hieroglyphen"). Also the term "Apis" is Hellenistic Greek (deriving from Old Egyptian and Coptic), while the Serbian noun for Bull is Bik (бик). So it's more likely that Apis either was his masonic pseudonym or even just an inside joke. Some sources also state that it was an abbrevation for his full code name (Apis and Bee, or figurative: Apis ie. Leader of the Bee-Hive) in the Black Hand.--212.95.5.154 (talk) 20:45, 11 January 2020 (UTC)