# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zaharije-ostojic
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:58:23.057Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zaharije-ostojic"
name: "Zaharije Ostojić"
slug: "zaharije-ostojic"
description: "Lieutenant Colonel Zaharije Ostojić was a Montenegrin Serb and Yugoslav military officer who served as the chief of the operational, organisational and intelligence branches of the Chetnik Supreme Command led by Draža Mihailović in Yugoslavia during World War II. He was a major in the Royal Yugoslav Army Air Force prior to the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, and was involved in the coup that deposed Prince Paul of Yugoslavia on 27 March 1941. After the coup, he escorted Prince Paul to exile in Greece, and was in Cairo during the invasion in April. In September 1941, he was landed on the coast of the Italian governorate of Montenegro along with the British Special Operations Executive officer Captain Bill Hudson and two companions. He escorted Hudson to the German-occupied territory of Serbia and introduced him to the Yugoslav Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito at Užice, then accompanied Hudson to Ravna Gora to meet Mihailović. Ostojić soon became Mihailović's chief of staff, and after the German attempt to capture the Chetnik leader during Operation Mihailovic in December 1941, brought the Chetnik Supreme Command staff to Montenegro where they were re-united with Mihailović in June 1942. During the remainder of 1942, Ostojić launched a counter-attack against Ustaše troops of the Independent State of Croatia returning to the eastern Bosnian town of Foča where they were expected to continue their genocidal anti-Serb policies. As many as 2,000 local Muslims were subsequently killed in the town by forces under Ostojić's command. Ostojić later oversaw large-scale massacres of civilians and burning of Muslim villages in the border region between Montenegro and the Sandžak."
tagline: "Montenegrin Chetnik leader"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/Zaharije_Ostojic1.jpg"
gender: "male"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1907"
deathDate: "1945-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.26
  momentum:             6.666666666666666
  historical:           5.291506666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaharije_Ostoji%C4%87"
    title: "Zaharije Ostojić"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaharije_Ostoji%C4%87"
    title: "Zaharije Ostojić"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaharije_Ostoji%C4%87"
    title: "Zaharije Ostojić"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B5_%D0%9E%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%98%D0%B8%D1%9B"
    title: "Захарије Остојић"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaharije_Ostoji%C4%87"
    title: "Zaharije Ostojić"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaharije_Ostoji%C4%87"
    title: "Zaharije Ostojić"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1563458"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump