Svetozar Boroević Military person

Generalfeldmarschall Svetozar Boroević (or Borojević) von Bojna (13 December 1856 – 23 May 1920) was an Austro-Hungarian field marshal of Croatian Serb origin who was described as one of the finest defensive strategists of the First World War.He came from Croatia but spent his entire life in the imperial military, becoming a nobleman as Baron von Bojna, and later rising to the rank of Field Marshal before the end of the First World War in 1918.

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Alias (AKA)	Borojevic Svetozar
Birth date	December 13, 1856
Birth place	Croatian Military Frontier , Hrvatska Kostajnica , Austrian Empire
Date of death	May 23, 1920
Place of death	Klagenfurt , First Austrian Republic , Austria

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award	Order of the Iron Crown Order of Leopold (Belgium) Military Order of Maria Theresa Order of the Lion and the Sun Military Merit Cross (Austria-Hungary) Order of the Star of Romania
military operations	Italian Front (World War I) World War I Eastern Front (World War I)
military branch	Austro-Hungarian Army
service start	1872
service end	1918