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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Svetozar Boroević

1856 - 1920

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Svetozar Boroević von Bojna (or Borojević) (13 December 1856 – 23 May 1920) was an Austro-Hungarian field marshal of Croatian Serb descent who was described as one of the finest defensive strategists of the First World War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Svetozar Boroević has received more than 273,984 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Svetozar Boroević is the 266th most popular military personnel (up from 278th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Croatia (up from 19th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Croatian Military Personnel.

Svetozar Boroević is most famous for being a Serbian general who led the Yugoslav Army in the First World War.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Svetozar Boroević ranks 266 out of 1,468. Before him are Otto Liman von Sanders, Ivan Bagramyan, Władysław Sikorski, Italo Balbo, Maurice de Saxe, and Lothar Rendulic. After him are Andranik, Alois Brunner, Matthew C. Perry, Sun Bin, Maurice Benyovszky, and Omar Bradley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Svetozar Boroević ranks 18. Before him are Emil Kraepelin, Georgi Plekhanov, Tongzhi Emperor, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, and Ivan Franko. After him are Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Robert Nivelle, John Singer Sargent, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, and Andrey Markov. Among people deceased in 1920, Svetozar Boroević ranks 16. Before him are Alexander of Greece, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Princess Margaret of Connaught, Jeanne Hébuterne, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, and Anders Zorn. After him are Rosalia Lombardo, John Reed, Dmitri Ivanovsky, Inessa Armand, Nectarios of Aegina, and Benito Pérez Galdós.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Svetozar Boroević ranks 16 out of 589. Before him are János Kádár (1912), Pope John IV (600), Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711), Pope Caius (250), Saint Marinus (275), and Mario Andretti (1940). After him are Andrija Mohorovičić (1857), Franz von Suppé (1819), Aloysius Stepinac (1898), Leopold Ružička (1887), Crispus (305), and Joanna II of Naples (1373).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Croatia

Among military personnels born in Croatia, Svetozar Boroević ranks 2. Before him are Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (-63). After him are Omar Pasha (1806), Ante Gotovina (1955), Janko Bobetko (1919), Georg von Trapp (1880), Milivoj Ašner (1913), Archduke Leo Karl of Austria (1893), Mile Mrkšić (1947), and Josip Filipović (1818).

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