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 * Timoleon Vasos Mavrovouniotis, Greek general of Montenegrin Serb descent, led a 1,500-men expeditionary force that landed February 3, 1897 at Kolymvari and claimed Crete for George I of Greece. 
 * Petar Zelalic (born 1727), the first Serbian Orthodox Christian in the 18th century to be knighted by the authorities of Malta for defending the island from the Ottoman Empire. A series of stamps called Captains of Boka Kotorska, including Petar Zelalic, Marko Ivanovic, Matija Balovic (1718–1794)and Ivan Bronza (d. 1749), were issued in 2005 by Serbia and Montenegro, honouring their maritime exploits