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Nikola Koprivica
Nikola Koprivica
Koprivica (aged 104) in December 1961
Birth: 1857
Vogosca, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Death: 1966
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Age: 108 years, 149+ days
Country: Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIH
Centenarian

Nikola Koprivica [Bosnian: Никола Копривица] (1857 – 1966) was a Bosnian centenarian who was the oldest known living person in Yugoslavia and present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time of his death. He was also a great hero and freedom fighter, a fearless fighter against a foreign occupier and an eternal rebel against injustice.

Biography[]

Nikola was born in 1857 in the village of Vogosca near Sarajevo, where his father and a group of relatives moved from Banjani.

On Vidovdan 1914 in Sarajevo, as a member of the liberation organization "Young Bosnia", Nikola Koprivica participated with numerous comrades in the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. His wife Sofia blamed him for this much-written operation.

Koprivica died in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1966 at the claimed age of 108 years.

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