Emanuel Cvjetićanin
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Emanuel Cvjetićanin was an Austro-Hungarian Feldmarschalleutnant, a rank equivalent to Lieutenant General
Lieutenant General
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Emanuel Cvjetićanin, whose baptismal name was Manojlo, was born in Veliki Cvjetnić
Veliki Cvjetnić
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. His last name of Cvjetićanin was from an old Serbian family that originated from the Serbian Bogunovići tribe of Old Serbia
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, medieval Raška
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. The Austrians take him away when he was seven years old to the Theresian Military Academy
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 , and later the family moved to Udbina
Udbina
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 (Lika
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, at the time also in the Austrian Empire), for the murder of a Turkish bey
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In the war of 1878–1882, Cvjetićanin was the main organizer of the gendarmerie
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 in Sarajevo
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. He received numerous decorations, including the Order of Maria Theresa, and the title of baron
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. He was the first adjutant of Emperor Franz Josef I and was in a second car behind of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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 in Sarajevo
Sarajevo
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 when Gavrilo Princip
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 assassinated him. King Alexander I of Yugoslavia
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 offered him a post as one of his Field Marshals, but he refused. He died in Zagreb
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, Kingdom of SHS.

His wife was Sofia Medici
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 Cvjetićanin. His son by her, Milan Cvetičanin, changed his last name from Cvjetićanin to Cvetičanin because of a misunderstanding with his father. Milan Cvetičanin was transferred to the Serbian army as an Austrian officer under the command of Živojin Mišić
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 and he died 6.10.1917. as a Serbian administration officer with other 21 soldiers in Saint-Mandrier-sur-Mer
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 near Toulon
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 in France
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