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 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 290,776 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Svetozar Boroević is the 277th most popular military personnel (down from 266th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Croatia (down from 16th 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 277 out of 2,058. Before him are Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, Pedro de Valdivia, Hasso von Manteuffel, Raimondo Montecuccoli, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, and Hans-Joachim Marseille. After him are Okita Sōji, Werner Mölders, Usama ibn Zayd, Lothar Rendulic, Roman Shukhevych, and Federico da Montefeltro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Svetozar Boroević ranks 18. Before him are Emil Kraepelin, Georgi Plekhanov, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Ivan Franko, and Robert Nivelle. After him are Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, Andrey Markov, Frank B. Kellogg, L. Frank Baum, and Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli. Among people deceased in 1920, Svetozar Boroević ranks 17. Before him are Robert Peary, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Max Bruch, Jeanne Hébuterne, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, and Inessa Armand. After him are Dmitri Ivanovsky, Rosalia Lombardo, John Reed, Nectarios of Aegina, Benito Pérez Galdós, and Venustiano Carranza.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Svetozar Boroević ranks 19 out of 700. Before him are Laura Antonelli (1941), Saint Marinus (275), Leopold Ružička (1887), Crispus (305), Mario Andretti (1940), and Andrija Mohorovičić (1857). After him are Aloysius Stepinac (1898), Luka Modrić (1985), Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (1968), Ivan Ribar (1881), Rade Šerbedžija (1946), 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), Viktor Pavičić (1898), Momčilo Đujić (1907), Janko Bobetko (1919), Jure Francetić (1912), Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria (1888), Stjepan Sarkotić (1858), Mile Mrkšić (1947), and Georg von Trapp (1880).

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