Draft:Stojan Kovačević

Stojan Kovačević was a rebel in the Herzegovina uprising of 1875. He was born in 1821 and died on April 23rd, 1911. Stojan and his cousin Petko Kovačević fought continuously against the Ottomans in the Herzegovina uprising of 1875. Stojan Kovačević was also illustrated in the Serbian magazine Orao along with Bogdan Zimonjić, Mićo Ljubibratić, and Petar Popović. The Orao magazine that had them illustrated was in a magazine issued in 1876 and first published in Novi Sad. The poet, Aleksa Šantić, once dedicated a song after him, named, Stojan Kovačević. He played a great role in the Herzegovina uprising of 1875, which was a part of a point of humiliation for the Ottoman Empire named the Great Eastern Crisis.

On July 13th, 1878, when the Congress of Berlin officially ended. The Archduchy of Austria-Hungary ruled by Franz Joseph the First claimed the modern-day territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina according to the Congress of Berlin. Stojan did not recognize the Austro-Hungarian rule in Herzegovina. So, in 1882, he initiated the Herzegovinians to a new uprising.