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The '''Čolak-Antić family''' (also spelt '''Tcholak-Antitch''') is a [[Serbian people|Serbian]] family with prominent members since the time of [[Revolutionary Serbia]]. The family's surname, originally a [[patronymic]], came from [[Voivode|Vojvoda]] [[Čolak-Anta|Čolak-Anta Simeonović]], a military commander under [[Karađorđe]], during the [[First Serbian Uprising]] against [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] rule, and the eponymous founder of the family.<ref name="Belgrade Genealogies">{{cite book |last=Milosavljević |first=Boris |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5NuzgEACAAJ |title=Belgrade Genealogies |publisher=Balkan Studies Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts |year=2020 |isbn=978-86-7179-110-6 |series= |language=sr}}</ref>
== Genealogy ==
'''''Note:''' This family tree is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather aims to show the principal public figures of the Čolak-Antić family.''<ref name="Serbia: country and population">{{cite book |last=Kanitz |first=Felix Phillip |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MrlBAAAAYAAJ |title=Serbia: country and population from the Roman era to the end of the 19th century |publisher=Serbian Literary Guild |year=1987|pages=624 |language=sr |issue=v. 2}}</ref><ref name="Slobodan Jovanović: theory">{{cite book |last=Milosavljević |first=Boris |title=Slobodan Jovanović: theory |publisher=Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts|year=2017 |isbn=978-86-7179-100-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mMUpEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA645 |pages=645 |language=sr}}</ref><ref name="Internet Archive 2023 g966">{{cite web |last=Milievi |first=M. |date=2023-03-25 |title=Famous People Of Serbia |url=https://archive.org/details/pomenikznameniti00miliuoft |website=Internet Archive |publisher=U Beogradu : U Srpskoj kraljevskoj tampariji |language=sr}}</ref><ref name="Glas-Javnosti 2004 b902">{{cite web |last=Simić |first=Milan |date=2004-03-09 |title=Descendants of Hajduk Veljko |url=http://arhiva.glas-javnosti.rs/arhiva/2004/03/09/srpski/R04030801.shtml |website=Glas-Javnosti |language=sr}}</ref><ref name="Bokan 2008 p.54 ">{{cite book | last=Bokan | first=D. | title=Politika: mit, hronika, enciklopedija | publisher=Politika | year=2008 | isbn=978-86-7607-091-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xs0qAQAAIAAJ | language=sr | access-date=4 July 2023 | page=54}}</ref>{{sfn|Bjelajac|2020}}
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# ''[[Čolak-Anta|Vojvoda Čolak-Anta Simeonović]]'' (1777–1853), military commander during the [[First Serbian uprising]]<br /> twice married (to ''Jelena'' then to ''Stoja'')
## ''Konstantin – Kosta Čolak-Antić'' (about 1809–1848)<br />x to ''Jovanka Mitrović'', related to [[medieval Serbian nobility|Prince Maksim Rasković]]
### ''[[Ilija Čolak-Antić]]'' (1836–1894), commander during the [[Serbo-Turkish War (1876–78)|Serbo-Turkish War]]<br />x Jelena Matić, daughter of ''[[Dimitrije Matić]]'', [[president of the National Assembly of Serbia]].
#### ''Jovanka Čolak-Antić''<br />x to ''[[Ilija Vukićević]]'', writer and playwright.
#### ''[[Boško Čolak-Antić]]'' (1871–1949), [[Marshal of the Court (Serbia, Yugoslavia)|Marshal of the Court]] and diplomat.
#### ''[[Vojin Čolak-Antić]]'' (1877–1945), [[Royal Serbian Army]] and [[Royal Yugoslav Army]] general<br />x to ''Marija Grujić'' daughter of prime minister ''[[Sava Grujić]]'', descendant of ''[[Vule Ilic Kolarac]]''.
##### ''Ilya Čolak-Antić'' (1905–1974), [[Major (rank)|major]] in the [[General Staff]] of the Royal Yugoslav Army
##### ''Grujica Čolak-Antić'' (1906–1967), major in the Royal Yugoslav Army<br />x ''Jovanka Marinković'', granddaughter of [[Milovan Marinković]] (three-time mayor of [[Belgrade]])
##### ''Petar Čolak-Antić'' (1907–1964), lieutenant colonel in the Royal Yugoslav Army<br />x ''Milica Hadžić'', daughter of Živojin Hadžić (Member of the National Assembly of Serbia)
### ''Lazar K. Čolak-Antić'' (1839–1877), lieutenant colonel during the [[Serbo-Turkish War (1876–78)|Serbo-Turkish War]]
#### ''Milica Čolak-Antić''<br />x ''[[Vladislav F. Ribnikar]]'', founder of [[Politika]]
##### ''Danica Ribnikar''<br />x ''[[John S. Bennett|Sir John S. Bennett]]'', career diplomat and [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent during [[WWII]].
### ''Ljubomir Čolak-Antić,'' director of the [[Zastava Arms|Serbian Military Arsenal]]
## ''Ana Čolak-Antić''<br />x to ''Antonije Djordjević''
##### ''[[Ljubica Marić]]'' (1909–2003), composer
## ''Jovanka Čolak-Antić''<br />x to ''P. Trpezić''
### ''Miloš Trpezić''<br />x to Anka Hristić (1848-1891), daughter of prime minister [[Nikola Hristić]] and granddaughter of [[Toma Vučić Perišić]]
#### ''Ana Trpezić''<br />x to Aleksandar Nedeljković, son of professor [[Milan Nedeljković]] and Tomanija Radaković, lady of the Imperial Court of Russia.
### ''Mileva Naumović''<br />x to Colonel ''Jovan Naumović'', son of [[Naum Krnar]]
#### ''[[Mihailo Naumović]]'', lieutenant colonel in the General Staff<br />x to ''Ljubica Đurić'', daughter of General [[Dimitrije Đurić]] and granddaughter of [[Dimitrije Matić]] 
#####''Milivoje Naumović'', [[Chetniks in the Balkan Wars|Chetnik]] commander during the [[Balkan Wars]] and [[World War One]]<br />x to ''Milena Milojević'', granddaughter of minister [[Jevrem Grujić]].
## ''Marija Čolak-Antić''<br />x to ''M. Hadžić''
##### ''Dragica Vučković''<br />x to Colonel ''Milivoje Petrović'', great-grandson of [[Hajduk Veljko]]
###### ''Captain Veljko Petrović''<br />x to Anđelija Mišić, daughter of [[Vojvoda (Serbia and Yugoslavia)|Field Marshal]] [[Živojin Mišić]]
## ''Pavle Čolak-Antić'' (mother Stoja)<br />x to ''Jelena Milovanović'' sister of painter [[Milan Milovanović (painter)|Milan Milovanović]]
### [[Voivode|Voivoda]] ''[[Milivoje Čolak-Antić]]'' (1884–1944), [[Chetniks in the Balkan Wars|Chetnik]] commander during the [[Balkan Wars]]<br />x to ''Jovana  Ghazis'' (1892–1987) relative of prime minister ''[[Milan Stojadinović]]''
### ''[[Milica Čolak-Antić Krstić]]'' (1887–1964), architect
### ''Antonije Čolak-Antić'' (1890–1908), composer
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== References ==
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== Sources ==
* {{cite book |last=Bjelajac |first=Mile |url=https://udi.rs/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/06.-Bjelajac.pdf |title=Family tradition of the military profession in Serbla, military elite 1804-1941 |publisher=Association for Social History (Department of General History, Faculty of Philosophy) |year=2020 |isbn= |volume=Yearbook for Social History 1-2/1996 |location=Belgrade, Serbia |pages=90–94 |language=sr |chapter=Čolak-Antić |ref={{sfnref|Bjelajac|2020}}}}
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