Gligorije Elezović, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Serbian historian and member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts
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Place of Birth: Vučitrn, Kosovska Mitrovica District, Serbia
About Gligorije Elezović
- Gligorije "Gliša" Elezovic (Vucitrn, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire 18 January 1879 — Belgrade, Yugoslavia 17 October 1960) was a Serbian historian and member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts.Also, he was one of the founding members of the Serb Democratic League (see photograph), headed by Bogdan Radenkovic.
- In 1931 the Serbian Royal Academy (Srpska kraljevska akademija) established a Committee for the Collection of Eastern Historical and Literary Sources, which employed scholars like Gligorije Elezovic and Fahim Barjaktarevic who were sent to archives in Istanbul to investigate Ottoman sources related to Serbian history.
- Elezovic was a scholar from Skopje (then South Serbia) with a prolific record of publishing Ottoman documents, and trained in Albanian and Turkish languages.
- He compiled and published Recnik kosovo-metohiskog dijalekta (Dictionary of Kosovo-Metohija dialect) in Belgrade in 1932.
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