Gabrovnik offensive

Battle for Gabrovnik
Part of the Macedonian Struggle
Date 7 May 1907 Location Gabrovnik, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire Result Serbian Chetniks victory
Belligerents
Albanian Arnauti	Serbian Chetnik Organization
Commanders and leaders
Unknown	Jovan Babunski
Units involved
Arnauti from Desovo	Chetniks from Gabrovnik
Strength
c. 100 men
Casualties and losses
15 killed	None

The Gavrovnik offensive was an offensive of the Macedonian Struggle carried out on St. George's Day (May 7) 1907 in what was then the Ottoman Empire. Knowing that St. George's Day was the feast day of the village in Gabrovnik and that all the villagers would be in church that morning, a group of over 100 armed Arnauts from the nearby village of Desovo set out with the intention of looting and burning the village, killing the people of Gabrovnik and taking young women and girls to Desovo and to Islam. It was supposed to be revenge for the murdered commander Arif-aga.^[1]